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_.. GENERAL TOHX B. HOOD 

F.rst Colonel of Fourth Texas Regiment. Glorious Commander of Hood's Texas 
Brigade- Army of Xorthem \irginia. Later, full General. 



UNVEILING AND DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 

TO 

ON THE CAPITOL GROUNDS AT AUSTIN, TEXAS 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER TWENTY-SEVEN 

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN 




TEXAS STATE CAPITOL 



AND 

MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REUNION OF 

l^oob'0 %tms Bngatie i^ssocfatton 

HELD IN SENATE CHAMBER AT AUSTIN, TEXAS 

OCTOBER TWENTY-SIX AND TWENTY-SEVEN 

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN 

TOGETHER WITH A SHORT MONUMENT 

AND BRIGADE ASSOCIATION HISTORY 

AND CONFEDERATE SCRAP BOOK 



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TWO HUxMDRED CCJPIES HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED 

FREE TO COMRADES : EDITION IS SMALL 

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Compiled and Published by 

F. B. CHILTON 

2513 Louisiana Street 
HOUSTON, TEXAS 

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COPYRI9MTED I9M 

BY F. B. CHILTON 

HOUSTON. TIXAS 



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Index to Contents 



SOMETHING GOOD ON EVERY PAGE 



||ool)*s Ce^as ilrifiabe 

DID THEIR DUTY EVERY DAY DURING FOUR 
TERRIBLE YEARS OF BLOODY WAR 



WHEN NOT FIGHTING, DYING OR DEAD— THEY WERE ALWAYS 

READY TO RESPOND WITH ALACRITY TO EVERY DEMAND 

OF THEIR COUNTRY OR CALL OF THEIR GOD 



Frontispiece 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

General J. B. Hood ..... 

Battle Flags of Confederacy 

Baby of Hood's Texas Brigade . 

Captain F. B. Chilton . . _ . 

Secretary and Treasurer E. K. Goree 

Monument, Hood's Texas Brigade - 

Hon. John Henry Kirby 

Captain James T. Hunter - . . . _ 

Soldier-Boy of 1862 ... 

Major George W. Littlefield . 

Last Meeting of Gen. Lee and Stonewall Jackson 

General Robert Edward Lee 

Soldier.Boy of 1861 

General Wm. R. Hamby .... 

Captain W. T. Hill 

In Memoriam 

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Facino 

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50 
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INTRODUCTORY 

THERE are little incidents and Imppenings which we all like to recall as we lov- 
ingly turn back the pages of our lives — the echo of an old song, the remembrance of 
noble words spoken by noble lips, the proud recollection of hand-clasps with men 
and women who have written their names big upon the scroll of human destiny — 
these are the things which we preserve forever in the amber of our memory as the years flow 
silently by. 

Ah, how vividly do we recall those stirring days when the South was fighting for 
honor and glory against overwhelming odds ! Memory, like a dim veil is dropped before our 
eyes and on the faded panorama of the past, the forms of the gray-coated Confederates loom 
up once more, and as the curtain drops upon the final scene at Appomattox, the voice of 
the one great actor breaks the stillness: "Men, 1 have done the best 1 could for you." And 
the thought of having seen Eobert E. Lee in the flesh and shaken his hand, is saddened by 
that other thought which Shakespeare so beautifully puts in the mouth of Hamlet: "He was 
a man. Take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." 

The old veteran alone in his library sees again the strong sides of Missionary Ridge; 
sees the bright red flash of the artillery once more and hears the dull boom followed by the 
crash of Musketry. Quick, he must be in it; the boys in gray are being repulsed. A lean 
arm is stretched toward the battered old sword on the wall and then falls nerveless to his 
side again — it is but a memory; the battle is a thing of the past — the old soldier is merely 
"fighting his battles o'er again." 

And so this volume is the outgrowth of some of these memories of the past which were 
once real enough. With a recollection of curious souvenirs of Confederate days — all woven 
into a tribute to the gallant Confederate Veterans and to the noble daughters of the Con- 
federacy. The pages from which many of these extracts were made have become familiar 
to every true Southerner, but there cannot be too many repetitions of those blood-stirring 
incidents which today, after all the lapse of years, still make the pulse beat faster and the 
Southern heart grow fonder. 

There is a pleasant, antiquarian flavor in this collection of memories, and they exhale 
a rare perfume that blows sweet and fresh from the sunny lands of the South. In imagina- 
tion, we hear the merry laugh of "Jeb" Stuart as he dashes away in pursuit of a troop 
of blue-coats; and then for a moment, through a mist of tears, we catch a glimpse of the sad, 
ascetic face of "Stonewall Jackson," or thrill again at the thought of handsome John Mor- 
gan riding to his death with a song on his lips. For, through all the chicanery of politics, 
through all the blood and horror of a four-years' war, they carried themselves like heroes. 
Beaten? Not a bit of it. Overpowered is a better word to use. "Why, we just wore our- 
selves out licking you," said General Robert Toombs of Georgia, years afterward in 
talking to a Xorthern officer. And witty "Bob" Toombs told the truth. 

The men who wore the gray will be enshrined in our hearts forever. Their memory 
can never fade. As the Roman matron in the long, winter evenings told her listening chil- 
dren "How brave Horatius kept the bridge in the good days of old," so will the Southern 
mother always tell her sons and daughters of the glorious days of the Confederacy when 
Lee and Jackson, and Hood and Stuart and Morgan held the bridge against the whole Xorth- 
ern army. 

Sons, daughters and children of the Confederacy keep a perpetual remembrance of the 
deeds of those who suffered for us that it may aid in the establishment of tlie truth, and 
hasten the triumph of virtue. Let us never forget the spleadid men who fought to uphold 
a principle. Their heritage was one of blood. Ours is the glory of their fame, and a love 
that endureth forever. S. B. M. 



X 



PREFACE 



OUTSIDE of truth— and nothing but the truth— this book 
will not bear the scrutiny of critics. It has not been col- 
lected, written or arranged by one who ever has or ever 
could arrange even a good scrap book. No effort has been 
made to gratify the curious or the fastidious, but our earnest prayer 
has gone forth that within these leaves will be found much to interest 
my dear comrades of Hood's Texas Brigade, whose welfare here and 
hereafter is very precious to the compiler of their Minutes of Reunion 
and Dedication at Austin, Oct. 26 and 27, 1910. No fiction, no 
anecdotes — nothing but the truth. There is no literary merit 
attached to this volume; there has been no attempt to make this 
book like any other on earth. It has an individuality of its own, 
and there never has been another like it. It is a plainly told story 
of the most remarkable body of intrepid soldiers that ever fought 
and died for pure principles. The facts here included come from 
many sources, and in the telling by so many different people, there 
is necessarily much seeming repetition because it is all about one 
command, and the relators and speakers are telling the same story 
their own way. But to the earnest seeker for the truth and knowl- 
edge as to the awful horrors of war this book will appeal as no other 
ever did, or ever will. Follow the actual names of our noble dead 
through battle after battle where they are wounded many times and 
then finally read their names among the killed and wonder at the 
sublime courage that marked Hood's Texas Brigade through four 
years of bloody war. There is not on earth another such record as 
the chroniclers within this book — each and every one — from War 
Department at Washington, from highest chief, from ablest speaker 
and best historian — in unstinted measure freely give to Hood's Texas 
Brigade. Read the inscriptions on their monument; see what Presi- 
dent Davis, Generals Lee and Jackson, Hood and many others said 
in days when war was on; read what every history and every book- 
writer, without exception, says of their actual feats; read what gifted 
poets have sung in words that breathe; pore over their awful 
casualty list; stand awestruck over the few left alive to surrender at 
Appomattox — and then know not the half has been told of the 
heroism, suffering and death of that famous body of volunteer 
soldiers: Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Houston, Texas, F. B. CHILTON 

February 1, 1911. 



2>et)tcatton 

rHIS volume pays merited tribute to the 
most gallant brigade of soldiers the world 
ever saw; is compiled in their honor; is 
an added memorial to the sacred memory of their 
glorious dead; and is, with grateful hearts and 
ever lingering, pleasant memories, most affec- 
tionately inscribed to their true friend, unselfish 
and generous benefactor 

Hon. John Henry Kir by 

by the author and his appreciative comrades of 

Hood'' s Texas Brigade. For, without his help, 

the perfection of their earthly aims 

and hopes anight never have 

been \attai71ed. 



PRESS OP* 

REIN J. SONS COMPANV 

HOUSTON, TEXAS 



THE CONFEDERATE GRAY. 



BY LILITA M. LEVER. 



what could I tell that hath not been told 
Or sing that hath not been sung, 

Though my heart were changed to a harp of gold 
With quivering strings new strung? 

1 should only echo the martial strain 
Of the bards of yesterday, 

Or my words should fall like the drip of rain 
On graves of the martyred Gray. 

I should sing again of the starry cross 

That floated so proudly o'er, 
Undimmed in the gloom of defeat and loss. 

Till the bugle rings once more 
And the drum beat sounds through the hostile 
hiss 

Of the bullets in the fray, 
Where our knighthood courted Death's icy kiss 

For the glory of the Gray. 

I should tell once more how the stars by night 

Kept watch with their vision clear 
O'er the sleeping champions of Truth and 
Right, 

Who at roll call answered : "Here !" 
And the dirge should sound down the empty 
years 

For the brave souls passed away. 
For the widow's sighs and the orphan's tears 

And the shroud of blood-stained Gray. 

Or the maiden's sobs for her fallen love 

Asleep in his youthful prime 
With naught but the daisies in bloom above 

For his epitaph sublime ; 



I should thrill my harp with the passionate pain, 

The yearning of one sad day, 
When she watched at the rose-wreathed gate in 
vain 

For her soldier boy in Gray. 

Or my soul should soar to the prouder theme 

Of the Southland's stainless name, 
Like a pearl enshrined in the rainbow gleam 

Of a high and deathless fame ; 
But I could not win from its storied past 

One chapter or sad or gay 
That shall not be baptized with tears at last 

For memory of the Gray. 

Peal forth, ye bugles, a welcome clear ! 

Ye fifes and ye drums, ring true ! 
Uprear, ye Southrons, that emblem dear, 

The cross in a field of blue! 
Lo ! the dead march on with their noiseless tread 

In the living ranks to-day. 
And a glory shines round each silvered head — 

God's benison on the Gray. 

(This poem has literary and poetic merit, and 
for its pure sentiment should find a place in all 
Confederate literature. It was dedicated to the 
United Confederate Veterans in Eeunion at 
New Orleans in April, 1906. Miss Lever is now 
Jlrs. Lilita Lever Younge, of Few Orleans, and 
a writer of note. Her father was a ITnion sol- 
dier, her mother a loyal Southern woman.) 



A Distinguished Federal Soldier Writes as to Con- 
federate History Being Preserved. 



"I was a Northern man, and my sympathies 
were with the Union cause ; but I would not be 
a good American if I did not join in expres- 
sions of admiration, praise, and honor for the 
gallant men of the Confederacy who, against 
such tremendous obstacles and odds, put up the 
bravest, the most gallant and heroic fight ever 
recorded in history. 

"The glories of Marathon and Thermopyla:!, 
the heroism and genius of Themistocles, ilil- 
tiades, and Leonidas pale into insignificance be- 
fore the deeds of Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and 
Joe Johnston, not to speak of a score of others. 
That war has made the history of the 
United States of America immortal. For 



the noble devotion, the heroic self sacri- 
fice, and the sublime courage humanity 
is capable of were never before so ex- 
emplified to the world as in that struggle. 
Certainly no better work can engage the survi- 
vors of the war and the descendants of the 
heroes who have passed away than in lovingly 
preserving every scrap of history' and tradition 
and being fully prepared to refute all slanders 
and misrepresentations. 

"We are proud of our great country, North 
and South, and as true Americans we look on 
the bravery and valor of the Confederate sol- 
diers as reflecting honor and glory on our whole 
country and race." 



The Following Sketch Shows Some of the Trials 

of the Brigade 



The first severe test of manhood that came 
to the Fourth and Fiftii Texas Regiments came 
to them in August, 18G1, as they marched across 
the then trackless plains of Western Louisiana. 
They were sent across in four camps of five com- 
panies each, without arms. 

The route was from Niblett's Bluff on the Sa- 
bine to New Iberia on the Teche River. Rain 
had begun to fall licfore the head of the column 
reached Nibletts and the prairies were flooded. 

The section in which I was interested was 12 
days on the march and a heavy rain fell every 
day, save one. The sun was hot and the water 
on the ground was warm. The men often 
waded knee-deep for long distances. Bridges 
were gone and no man escaped a ducking each 
day. Sometimes it was barely possible to get 
firm ground for camp. The men were poorly 
equipped for sucli conditions and the founda- 
tions were laid for serious sickness and a heavy 
death lii^t later in the year; hundreds died be- 
cause of this severe exposure. I shudder when I 
recall the horrors of that awful march and often 
at sight of a dark thunder cloud recall the 
suffering of those men. 



The 32 companies of the three Texas regi- 
ments that formed Hood's Texas Brigade aver- 
aged 140 men each, counting rank, file and re- 
cruits, a force of 4,480 men, most of them in the 
prime of life or younger — a few of them were 
gray-haired. 

Every known pursuit then followed in Texas 
was there represented. Two of the First Texas 
companies were largely from cities, so was a 
Fifth Texas Company. Nearly all were used to 
the open air life and readily adapted themselves 
to camp life, yet there was no great number of 
cowboys with us, the cowboys naturally drifting 
to the "critter" companies. 

The one great feature of these men was the 
perfect feeling of comraderie that prevailed. 
Each company had men of wealth among them. 
Each company had many poor men, some very 
poor men among them, but in their messes there 
was no grouping based on wealth, nor in pro- 
motion in our ranks; there was no selection of 
rich men or rich men's sons. 

i\rerit ruled and ruled unerringly. The weak- 
ling in body fell by the wayside. The weakling 
in spirit was rated down to such level as his 
weakness marked out for him. 



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14 



THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REUNION 



THE REGIMENTAL OFFICERS. 

Colonel Wigfall of the First Regiment became 
a Brigadier General, but soon resigned to be- 
come a Confederate Senator from Texas. Mc- 
Leod died early in the war, which caused the 
promotion of A. T. Eainey to Colonel, H. M. 
Black to Lieutenant-Colonel, and P. A. Work to 
Major. Black was killed at the battle of Eltham 
Landing; Eainey was wounded at Gaines' Mill, 
and was not again with the regiment. 

Major Work was promoted to Lieutenant- 
Colonel and on account of disabilities received 
in service, resigned in 1864. Major Dale of 
the First Texas was killed at the battle of 
Sharpsburg. At the close of the war F. S. Bass 
was Colonel of thi.* regiment, and E. J. Harding 
Lieutenant-Colonel. Colonel Bass died several 
years ago, but Colonel Harding, who is now 
living in Jackson, Miss., is now in Austin, with 
his wife and daughter, to attend the reunion of 
the brigade and the dedication of the momi- 
ment. 

Captain Powell of Company D, Fifth Texa5, 
was promoted to Colonel, and is now living in 
St. Louis, 84 years of age. He has written that 
he would like to attend the reunion but is too 
old to travel so far. He was wounded a num- 
ber of times during the war. Captain Upton 
of Company B was promoted to Lieutenant- 
Colonel and was killed at Manassas. Captain 
Whaley of Company C became a Major and was 
killed at Freeman's Ford on the Rappahannock 
River. 

Of the regimental ofEicers of the Fourth 
Texas, Lieutenant-Colonel Marshall and Major 
Warwick were both killed at the battle of Gaines' 
Mill. Captain Key of Company A became a 
Colonel and was wounded a number of times. 
Captain Carter of Company B, the Austin com- 
pany, became a Lieutenant-Colonel and was 
killed at Gettysburg. Captain Townsend of C 
became a Major and lost a leg at Manassas. 
Captain John D. Bane of D became a Colonel : 
he was wounded several times but survived the 
war. He died some years ago. Captain Wink- 
ler of Company I rose to be Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and Captain Martin of K became a Major. 

STTKTirORS ARE FEW. 

Captain E. H. Cunningham of San Antonio 
is the only survivor of the original Captains of 
tlie Fourth Regiment. Major A. G. Clopton of 
the First Texas, who will make one of the re- 
sponses to the address of welcome today, and 
who is now past 80, and Colonel P. A. Work of 
Kountzp, Texas, are the only sun'iving Captains 
of the First Regiment. Colonel E. 11. Powell, 
alone of the original Captains of the Fifth 
Texas, is now living. 



"It is doubtful," said General W. R. Hamby 
the other da_v, "if among the officers of the three 
regiments who sun'ived the war there was a 
single one who escaped being wounded." 

At the beginning of the war the three regi- 
ments numbered about 3, -500 men; they lost in 
killed and wounded during the war more than 
80 per cent, of the total enrollment. Less than 
300 are now living. 

TOM GREEN RIFLES. 

The Tom Green Rifles, Company B, Fourth 
Texas, after its organization in February, 1861, 
in Travis County, started to San Antonio to 
assist in the capture of the United States garri- 
son at that place, but before reaching there a 
courier arrived saying that it had already sur- 
rendered. The company was in camp of instruc- 
tion on the San Marcos River for several weeks, 
then went to Houston and thence to Richmond, 
Va. 

The original officers were B. F. Carter, Cap- 
tain, who was disabled at Gaines' Mill, and who 
since the war was for years commissioner of the 
general land office ; W. C. Walsh, First Lieuten- 
ant, later made a Captain; J. T. Laurin, Sec- 
ond Lieutenant, who was promoted to a Cap- 
taincy, was wounded twice and died in Missis- 
sippi several years ago; R. J. Lambert, Third 
Lieutenant, who was killed at Gaines' Mill. 

The original company consisted of 148 men, 
of whom ten are now living: General A. S. 
Roberts, General of the Texas State troops after 
the war; Captain W. C. Walsh. Val C. Giles, 
Dr. L. D. Hill, General W. R. Hamby and S. 
F. Stone of Austin ; E. B. Millican of Lampasas, 
John F. McGee of San Marcos, G. H. Crozier 
of Dallas and A. R. Masterson of Brazoria 
County. 

THREE TEXAS BATTLE FLAGS. 

These battle flags of the three Texas regi- 
ments will figure in the exercises today, and 
their torn folds will be objects of much interest 
and veneration to the old soldiers and all others 
who know anything of the ordeals of blood 
through which they went. 

The original battle flag of the Fourth Regi- 
ment and the Lone Star flag of the Fifth Texas 
had been so riddled with shot and shell by Octo- 
ber. 1862, that they could hardly be recognized 
as flags, and, as the men naturally were ex- 
tremely proud of them and were anxious to pre- 
serve them, the two flags were sent by Colonel 
S. H. Darden to Texas and presented to Gov- 
ernor F. R. Lubbock to be preserved in the 
archives of the State. An entry in the journal 
of Chaplain N. A. Davis, made at the time, is 
of interest in this connection: 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



15 



TORN TO SHREDS. 

October 7 and 8 I was again in the camp and 
Generals Longstreet and Hood were reviewing 
the troops. On the 8th, as I sat looking on while 
one regiment after another passed in review 
(eighteen in all), I saw one flag in which were 
many holes made by the bullets of the enemy. 

I watched it until it had gone some distance 
past. It was a matter of great interest to me 
to see an object upon which the history of the 
recent battle was so plainly and truthfully writ- 
ten. 

From the manly step of the ensign one could 
easily see that he was proud of his colors. It 
was a "Xione Star" flag and belonged to the 
Fifth Texas Eegiment, and after the parade I 
learned that it had been pierced forty-seven 
times and seven ensigns had fallen under it. 

By the time I turned from looking after it, 
another was passing me. I knew it. It was 
an old acquaintance. Many times had I seen 
it on dress parade, but never with such mingled 
feelings of pride and sorrow. It called to mind 
all the hardships and sufPering. fire and blood 
through which we had passed. 

It was made and presented by Miss Lula Wig- 
fall to Colonel Hood for the Fourth Texas Reg- 
iment, with the motto, "Fear not, for I am with 
thee. Say to the Xortli. give up, and to the 
South, keep not back,"' which was engraved on 
the spear head. 

Xine ensigns had fallen under it on the 
field, and it had brought off the battle scars of 
sixty-five balls and shot, besides the marks of 
three shells. 

It was the only flag to be seen that had gone 
through So many battles and had so many 
marks of honor. It was understood that this 
was the last time it would appear upon parade, 
for it is an object of too much pride to the regi- 
ment and honor to the State of Texas to be kept 
in camp. On tomorrow it is to be committed 
to the care of Captain Darden, to be sent home 
to report our conduct in the hour of our coun- 
try's struggles, and to be deposited among the 
archives of the State. And knowing that hun- 
dreds would desire to see it, I had a drawing 
made and here present it to our friends and rel- 
atives at home, that they may see the battle 
flag around which the old Fourth rallied in so 
many struggles for our country's liberty, and 
beneath which so many of our brave men have 
fallen. 

It is with great pride that we can send it 
home without a single stain, and to it the men 
of the Fourth can point for the records of their 
deeds as long as Texas exists an independent and 
sovereign State. 



FLAG OF FIRST TEXAS. 

Of the flag of the First Texas Eegiment, Val 
C. Giles of Austin, who was a member of Com- 
pany B, Fourth TexaSj has written the follow- 
ing interesting account: 

Hanging on the wall in the Texas State Li- 
brary is a wornout, faded, silken relic of the 
eventful sixties — a Lone Star Texas flag, so 
tattered and torn by war and time that the cas- 
ual observer will pass it by unobserved. It has 
a history, but is silent now, as silent as the gal- 
lant fellows who carried it, fought for it and 
died under it in the old cornfield at Sharpsburg, 
Md.. September 17, 1862. 

Triumphantly it has waved over the old First 
Texas Infantr}' on the banks of the Potomac at 
Yorktown. at Eltham's Landing, at Seven 
Pines, at Gaines' Mill, at Malvern Hill, at Free- 
man's Ford, at Second Manassas, at Boons- 
boro Gap and went down in blood on the battle- 
field at Sharpsburg. The First Eegiment was 
so proud of this flag that they carried it in a 
silk oil cloth case and never unfurled it except 
on review, dress parade or in battle. 

The whole brigade was proud of it and when 
we saw it waving in the Virginia breeze it was a 
sweet reminder of home, a thousand miles 
away. It was made and presented to the First 
Texas Infantry by Miss Lula Wigfall. whiL* 
her father. Louis t. Wigfall, was Colonel of the 
regiment, early in 1861. I^ater on she made a 
beautiful battle flag out of her mother's wedding 
dress and gave it to the Fourth Eejriment while 
they were in winter quarters on the Potomac. 
This flag is now in the possession of the Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy and can be seen in their 
room in the Capitol building. 

The First Texas Infantr\' was one of the few 
regiments in Lee's army that had twelve full 
companies in it. At the beginning of the wa", 
numerically, it was one of the strongest reei- 
ments in the Army of Northern Virginia, but 
disease and bullets greatly diminished its num- 
bers before it reached the fatal field of Sharps- 
burg. 

When this old Lone Star flag in the Texas 
Library was returned to the State by the Sec- 
retary of War, it was labeled "Texas Brigade 
flag, captured at Antietam, Maryland." 

Knowing that Hood's Texas Brigade, 
the only Texas troops that served in 
the Army of Northern Virginia, had no 
"lirigade flag," General William R. Haiu- 
bv and myself, members of the Fourth 
Texas Regiment of that old brigade, vis- 
ited the Capitol to see if we could discover 
wherein lay the mistake. General Hamby's rec- 
ollections of Hood's Brigade and our eventful 
campaign of 1862 is remarkably clear. He re- 



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THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REUNION 



members precisely the order in which the Texas 
troops entered the battle of Sharpsbnrg. Al- 
though he had not recovered from a wound re- 
ceived at second Manassas, he went into that 
battle barefooted and came out of it unscathed 
and well shod ! I know that our brigade Quar- 
termaster issued no shoes or clothing of any 
kind during Lee's first raid in Maryland, but I 
never asked him where he got his shoes. 

As soon as Judge Raines, the affable libra- 
rian, pointed out the flag we both recognized it, 
although it had been more than forty years 
since last we saw it. There is no doubt about 
it, this is the Texas flag lost by the First Regi- 
ment in the battle of Sharpsburg. 

Colonel P. A. Work, who commanded that 
regiment at the battle of Sharpsburg, in his of- 
ficial report says, in speaking of the flag: "Dur- 
ing the engagement I saw four bearers of our 
State colors shot down ; first, John Hanson ; 
second, James Day; third, Charles Kingsbury, 
and fourth, James Malone; others raised the 
colors until four more were shot down. The 
colors started back with the regiment as it re- 
tired and when lost no one knew it save him 
who had fallen with it." 

Chaplain Nicholas A. Davis of the Fourth 
Regiment, in his book entitled "Campaign from 
Texas to Maryland," says : "The First carried 
its old flag through every battle until at Sharps- 
burg, where the ensign was shot down unob- 
served in the cornfield as the regiment was 
changing its position to prevent being flanked. 



and it fell into the hands of the enemy, who, we 
learn from some of our men that were made 
prisoners, rejoiced over it exceedingly. Mount- 
ing it upon a music wagon and running the 
stars and stripes over it, drove it through the 
camp to the tune of Yankee Doodle, and then 
to McClellan's headquarters where they deliv- 
ered themselves of spread eagle speeches on the 
subject of capturing a Texas flag. Well, let 
them make the most of it, for it is the first 
Texas flag they have got and I guess many of 
them will bite the dust before thev get an- 
other." 

Following is an extract from the New York 
Herald of September 20, 1862 : 

"While our lines rather faltered the rebels 
made a sudden and impulsive onset and drove 
our gallant fellows back over a part of the hard 
won field. Here, up the hills and down tlirougli 
the woods and standing corn, over the plowed 
ground and the clover, the line of fire swept 
to and fro as one side or the other gained a tem- 
porary advantage. It is bej'ond all wonder how 
men such as these rebel troops are can fight as 
they do. That those ragged and filthy wretches, 
sick, hungry and always miserable, should jirove 
such heroes in the fight is past explanation. 
Men never fought better. There was one regi- 
ment that stood up before the fire of two or 
three of our long range batteries and two full 
regiments of infantry. Although the air was 
vocal with tlie whistle of bullets, there they 
stood and delivered their fire in perfect order." 



HOOD'S MEN ARE IN 39th ANNUAL SESSION. 



Veterans of Honored Cause Clasp Hands and Recall Old Memories. Many Addresses 

Heard. Session a Feast of Good Things. Battle Flags Presented. 

Concert at Night. Business Transacted. 



A i)prson liMj)pcning in on the old soldiers in 
the Senate chamber before the House was called 
to order would have been impressed anew with 
the strength of the tie that binds together men 
who liave campaigned and fought, and slept 
side by side through four years of bloody war. 
The enduring tenderness of that tie is a prov- 
erb, but it is necessary to attend a reunion of 
these old men to get the full force of the state- 
ment. The handshakers, the joyous exclama- 
tions at the sight of a long-absent comrade, the 
glad tears and fond embraces all attest the deep 
sincerity and genuine warmth of feeling well- 
ing up in the hearts of these survivors of a glo- 
rious era. 

Here gathered together were the majority of 
the 200 surviving veterans of Hood's Texas 



Brigade, tottering old men, come from the four 
corners of the State — and some of them from 
l)eyond its borders — they and their wives, 
daughters and sons, drawn by the common im- 
pulse of love and sentiment. Old and young, 
man and woman, entered into the spirit of the 
occasion, for all honored the cause and admired 
the heroism of the men who fought for it. 

Many an old scene, trivial or heroic, was 
gone over fondly for the hundredth time, for to 
these grandfathers, like lovers, the old story 
is ever new and grows dearer ^itli repetition 
and the flight of time. 

Some of the best things that hajipen at a 
Confederate reunion are those spontaneous and 
unforeseen incidents of which tlie printed pro- 
gram gives no hint. — Austin Statesman. 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



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DEDICATE MONUMENT TOMORROW. 



Parade Thursday Morning. Address by Hon. John H. 

Kirby and Governor Campbell. Business 

Session. Visit Woman's Home. 

today's program. 

9 :30 a. m. — Enrollment of members and 
their descendants. 

Distribution of badges. 

10 a. m. — Called to order by the President. 

Invocation by the Chaplain. 

Annual address of the President. 

Address of welcome, Mrs. W. T. Wroe, Pres- 
ident Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, U. D. C. 

Address of welcome. Mayor Joseph D. Sayers, 
ex-Governor of Texas. 

Response, Major A. G. Clopton, First Texas 
Eegiment. 

Response, Major F. Charles Hume, Fifth 
Texas Regiment. 

Reading minutes of last meeting. 

Report of Secretary. 

Recess. 

2 :30 p. m. — Reading letters and telegrams. 

Report of standing committees. 

Unfinished business. 

Recitation, "Hood's Texas Brigade," Miss 
Decca Lamar W''est of Waco. 

Presenting the old flags of the First, Fourth 
and Fifth Texas. 

The last roll call. 

Memorial address. Captain W. E. Barry, 
Fourth Texas. 

4:30 p. m. — Visit the Confederate Home. 

8 p. m. — Music. 

Address, "The Women of the Confederacy," 
Miss Katie Daffan, past President Texas Divi- 
sion, U. D. C. 

Promenade concert of Southern melodies, 
under the auspices of the Albert Sidney Johns- 
ton Chapter, U. D. C. 



With an elaborate program in the Senate 
chamber at the Capitol, the thirty-ninth reunion 
of the Hood's Texas Brigade opened this morn- 
ing at 9 :30 o'clock. The annual address by the 
President and addresses of welcome and re- 
sponses will be the features of the morning 
hours, while the afternoon and night will be 
taken up with business, the memorial address, 
recitations and a concert and reception to be 
given by the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, 
tJ. D. C, which will make the time pass pleas- 
antly for the old soldiers. 

Many of the men have been enjoying the first 
few hours of the reunion telling the stories of 
the old camp fires built within sight of the 
enemy on the hill across the way and by whose 
side they sat many a time watching the move- 
ments of the pickets of the Northern troops in 
the silence of the night. The old men gath- 
ered in groups last night at their headquarters 
anrl talked over thefe old times and the scenes 
which they lived through but out of which hun- 
dreds of their old comrades never came. 

The merchants of Austin have decorated 
their places of business along the line of march 
on the avenue and all completed in time for the 
parade tomorrow morning at 9 :30 o'clock. 
The parade will be one of the greatest that the 
citv has witnessed in a long time. The local 
military as well as a large number of other 
organizations will be out in full force to do 
honor to the memory of the famous fighters of 
the Hood's Texas i?rigade. The parade will 
form at Fifth Street and move to the monu- 
ment on the Capitol grounds, which will then 
be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies and 
addresses by prominent speakers, among whom 
will be Hon. John H. Kirby of Houston and 
Governor T. M. Campbell. In the afternoon 
regular business will be attended to, after which 
a visit will be made to the Confederate Woman's 
Home. — Austin Statesman. 



OFFICIAL MINUTES OF 39th ANNUAL REUNION 

HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE ASSOCIATION AND DEDICATION 
OF THEIR MONUMENT, OCTOBER 26th AND 27th, 1910. 



WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26TH. 

There were present 126 comrades, who were 
registered as follows and received a beautiful 
souvenir badge emblematic of both reunion and 
monument dedication: 

General W. R. Hamby, Company B, Fourth 
Texas, Austin, Texas. 



Captain W. C. Walsh, Company B, Fourth 
Texas, Austin, Texas. 

Lieutenant Campbell Wood, Company D, 
Fifth Texas, San Antonio. 

R. W. Murray, Company F, Fourth Texas, 
San Antonio. 

Major C. P. Nance, Company G, Fifth 
Texas, Antioch, Tenn. 



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THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REUNION 



W. L. Bailey, Company C, Fourth Texas, 
Houston, Texas. 

Tom Bigbee, Company G, Fifth Texas, Cam- 
eron, Texas. 

J. C. Quick, Company C, Fourth Texas, 
Hensley, Texas. 

Dr. L. D. Hill, Company B, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

N. C. Arnett, Company I, Eighteenth Geor- 
gia, Dallas. 

J. P. Smith, Company K, Fifth Texas, Gib- 
town, Texas. 

E. A. Ashley, Company K, Fifth Texas, 
Eockdale, Texas. 

E. G. Sessions, Company I, Fourth Texas, 
Eice, Texas. 

John Pickett, Company I, Fourth Texas, Cor- 
sicana, Texas. 

J. H. Plasters, Company G, Fourth Texas, 
Temple, Texas. 

J. Conley, Company H, Fourth Texas, Dean- 
ville, Texas. 

E. H. McKnight, Company I, Fifth Texas, 
McKnight, Okla' 

Captain John N". Wilson, Company K, First 
Texas, Nacogdoches, Texas. 

W. W. Stephens, Company I, Fifth Texas, 
Temple, Texas. 

J. H. Kimbrough, Company K, Fourth 
Texas, Brownwood. 

J. B. Corwin, Company F, Fourth Texas, 
Paint Eock, Texas. 

C. J. Jackson, Company G, Fifth Texas, No- 
lanville, Texas. 

A. J. Sherill, Company G, Fifth Texas, Ben 
Arnold, Texas. 

D. Flaniken, Company I. Fifth Texas, Tol- 
bert, Wilbarger County, Texas. 

J. A. Bolton, Company H, First Texas, Jack- 
sonville, Texas. 

William Schadt, Company L, First Texas, 
Galveston. 

G. A. Meak, Company L, First Texas, Mount 
Selnian, Texas. 

A. J. Wilson, Company K, First Texas, Fort 
Worth. 

H. P. Traweek, Company C, Fifth Texas 
Burnet, Texas. 

J. L. Tarkin.gton, Company H, Fifth Texas, 
Tarkington Prairie, Texas. 

Captain J. T. Hunter, Company H, Fourth 
Texas, Ada, Okla. 

Captain E. W. Hubert, Company K, Fifth 
Texas, Hortense, Texas. 

J. A. Huffman, Company G, Fifth Texas, 
Cameron, Texas. 

E. K. Goree, Company H, Fifth Texas, 
Huntsville, Texas. 



Eev. J. H. Stevens, Company I, Fifth Texas, 
Temple, Texas. 

A. B. Hood, Company I, Fifth Texas, Som- 
erville, Texas. 

J. E. Glaize, Company D, First Texas, Lin- 
den, Texas. 

Captain George T. Todd, Company A, First 
Texas, Jefferson, Texas. 

J. A. Bradfield, Company E, Fourth Texas, 
Dallas. 

J. B. Polley, Company F, Fourth Texas, 
Floresville. 

J. W. Baker, Company D, Fourth Texas, Eed 
Eock. 

J. L. Boatner, Company C, Third Arkansas, 
Calvert, Texas. 

J. T. Eeeves, Company D, Fourth Texas, 
Caldwell, Texas. 

J. W. Sneed, Company C, Fourth Texas, 
Eosebud, Texas. 

J. A. C hesher. Company H, Fifth Texas, Car- 
lisle, Texas. 

Geo. B. Lundy, Company M, First Texas, 
Crockett. Texas. 

J. G. Locke, Company M, First Texas, Corri- 
gan, Texas. 

C. A. McAIister, Company F, Fourth Texas, 
Paint Eock. 

J. W. Norford, Company I, First Texas, 
Oceola. 

Cap ain W. T. Hill, Company D, Fifth Texas, 
Maynard. 

J. C. Hill, Company D, Fifth Texas, May- 
nard. 

T. J. Eobert, Company B, Fifth Texas, Eagle 
Lake. 

J. I^I. King, Company D, Fourth Texas, 
Cuero. 

J. W. Dallas, Company I, Fifth Texas, Bren- 
ham. 

J. W. Gee. Company E, Fifth Texas. Brvan. 

G. W. Clampitt, Company T, Fifth Texas, 
El Campo. Texas. 

0. H. Tindell. Company C, Fourth Texas, 
Calvert. 

Frank Ezell, Company H, First Texas, Jack- 
sonville. 

W. J. Towns, Company M, First Texas, 
Salado. 

H. C. Jackson, Company G, Fifth Texas, 
Corn Hill. 

Dr. J. C. Loggins, Company G, Fourth Texas, 
Enuis. 

T. G. McXeily, Company K, Fourth Texas, 
Ennis. 

E. W. Tubb, Company K, Fourth Texas, 
Eosebud. 

M. V. Smith, Company D, Fourth Texas, 
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S. Lassater, Company C, First Texas, Tyler. 

John Duren, Company I, Fourth Texas, Cor- 
sicana. 

S. T. Stone, Company B, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

J. L. Nix, Company G, Fourth Texas, Barks- 
dale. 

Rev. John W. Stevens, Company K, Fifth 
Texas, Houston Heights. 

W. A. Naburs and wife, Company G, Fifth 
Texas, Cameron. 

E. W. Poole, Company G, Fifth Texas, Cam- 
eron. 

R. S. Miller, Company I, Fourth Texas, 
Lufkin. 

Ed. R. Crockett, Company P, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

Jack Sutherland, Company F, Fourth Texas, 
Floresville. 

'^. W. Templeton, Company I, Fourth Texas, 
Cameron. 

W. H. Boles, Company I, Fourth Texas, Lone 
Grove. 

George Allen, Company F, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

Pulaskie Smith, Company I, Fourth Texas, 
Lafayette. 

Val C. Giles, Company B, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

W. G. Jackson, Company I, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

John C. West, Company E, Fourth Texas, 
Waco. 

J. B. Gee, Company E, Fifth Texas, Austin. 

T. J. Calhoun, Company C, First Texas, 
Austin. 

J. G. Sherill, Company G. Fifth Texas, Rose- 
bud. 

W. E. Copeland, Company H, Fourth Texas, 
Rockdale. 

A. M. Henson, Company D, Fifth Texas, 
Gatesville. 

W. H. Pittman, Company A, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

W. J. Watts, Company G, First Texas, Pal- 
estine. 

John T. Woodhouse, Company G, First 
Texas, Wichita Falls. 

Captain W. B. Wall, Company I, First Texas, 
Crockett. 

R. H. Pinckney, Company G, Fourth Texas, 
Hempstead. 

H. D. Maloney, Company D, Hampton's Le- 
gion, Corsicana. 

G. W. Irwin, Company C, Fifth Texas, Rose- 
bud. 

Captain J. E. Anderson, Company C, Fifth 
Texas, Jewett. 



Lieutenant J. M. Alexander, Company K, 
Fifth Texas, Livingston. 

L. W. Miller, Company G, Fifth Texas, Tan- 
glewood, Texas. 

H. W. Berryman, Company I, First Texas, 
Alto, Texas. 

Dr. W. P. Powell, Company D, Fifth Texas, 
Willis. Texas. 

P. K. Goree, Company H, Fifth Texas, Mid- 
way, Texas. 

A. S. Roberts, Company B, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

J. H. Flemister, Company C, Third Arkan- 
sas, Confederate Home. 

T. G. May, Company H, Fourth Texas, En- 
nis. 

A. A. Aid rich, Company I, First Texas, 
Crockett. 

W. S. Johnson, Company A, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

J. M. Polk. Company I, Fourth Texas, Con- 
federate Home. 

Malley Reeve?, Company I, First Texas, Mur- 
chison, Texas. 

John H. Drennan, Company C, Fourth Texas, 
Calvert. 

Lieutenant Boling Eldridge, Company C, 
Fifth Texas. Brenham. 

R. K. Felder, Company E, Fifth Texas, Chap- 
pell Hill. 

Calhoun Kearse, Company D, Fifth Texas, 
Hunt'^ville. 

Captain F. B. Chilton, Company H, Fourth 
Texas, Houston. 

Lieutenant W. E. Barry, Company G, Fourth 
Texas, Navasota. 

Major A. G. Clopton, Company D, First 
Texas, Jefferson, Texas. 

Sam R. Burroughs, Company G, First Texas, 
Buifalo, Texas. 

Major F. Charles Hume, Company D, Fifth 
Texas, Houston. 

Captain W. H. Gaston, Company H, First 
Texas, Dallas. 

Colonel R. J. Harding, Company B, First 
Texas, Jackson, Miss. 

H. S. Tarver, Company I, Fifth Texas, 
Brown wood. 

J. J. Hall, Company K, First Texas, Street- 
man, Texas. 

W. H. Matthews, Company K, Fifth Texas, 
Livingston. 

James B. Sargeant, Company H, Fourth 
Texas, Or;inge. 

R. T. Wilson, Company H, Fifth Texas, Sin- 
gleton, Texas. 

John F. McGehee, Company B, Fourth Texas, 
San Marcos. 



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THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REUNION 



M. S. Dunn, Company D, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

John C. Bonner, Company B, Fourth Texas, 
Austin. 

Pitzer Smith, Company D, Fourth Texas. 

The following veterans, relatives and hon- 
orary members received their badges as such : 

Mrs. H. W. Berryman, Alto, Texas. 

Mrs. M. E. Powell, Willis, Texas. 

Miss M. Powell, Willis, Texas. 

Mrs. J. H. Drennan, Calvert, Texas. 

Mrs. James Connaly, Deanville, Texas. 

Mrs. Boiling Eldridge, Brenham, Texas. 

Miss Sallie'M. Cox, Tyler, Texas. 

Miss Fannie B. Goree, Navasota, Texas. 

Miss Ann C. Goree, Austin, Texas. 

Miss Eddie Lee Goree, Austin, Texas. 

Miss Annie Gaston, Dallas, Texas. 

Mrs. Nettie Lassater, Tyler, Texas. 

A. G. Sessions, Puebla, California. 

E. M. Sessions, Puebla, California. 

D. E. Sessions, Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Eobert Lee Pickett, Corsicana, Texas. 

Ernest Eay Pickett, Corsicana, Texas. 

Chas. L. Tarver, Dallas, Texas. 

Benj. E. Tarver, Santa Anna, Texas. 

Louis T. Tarver, Brownwood, Texas. 

Mrs. W. T. Hill, Maynard, Texas. 

Mrs. J. C. Hill and daughter, Maynard, 
Texas. 

Mrs. W. E. Hamby, Austin, Texas. 

Mrs. Edward Robinson, Austin, Texas. 

Wni. E. Hamby, Jr., Austin, Texas. 

Edward Hamby Eobinson, Austin, Texas. 

Eobert M. Hamby, Austin, Texas. 

Children and grandchildren of Comrade F. B. 
Chilton : 

Mrs. Austin Y. Bryan, Columbia, Texas. 

Mrs. J. F. Spann, Navasota, Texas. 

Lys. B. Chilton, ,Tr., Austin, Texas. 

Miss Sbellev Chilton, Austin, Texas. 

Bowers Chilton, Houston, Texas. 

Mabellc Chilton. Houston, Texas. 

Irene Chilton, Houston, Texas. 

Grandchildren : 

Austin Y. Bryan, Jr., Columbia, Texas. 

Chilton Bryan, Columbia, Texas. 

Lillian Spann, Navasota, Texas. 

HONORARY MEMBERS. 

Governor T. M. Campbell, Austin, Texas. 
Major George W. Littlcfield, Austin, Texas. 
Hon. John Henry Kirby, Houston, Texas. 
Mrs. Val. C. Giles, Austin, Texas. 
Mrs. W. T. Wroe, Austin, Texas. 
Mrs. 0. B. Colquitt, Austin, Texas. 
Mrs. L D. Affleck, Brenham, Texas. 
Col. E. M. Phelps, Austin, Texas. 



Major J. D. Sayers, Austin, Texas. 
General W. L. Cabell, Dallas, Texas. 
General Adam E. Johnson, Burnett, Texas. 
Lieutenant Al. Musgrove, Austin, Texas. 
Mrs. J. D. Eoberdeau, Austin, Texas. 

REGISTERED VISITING VETERANS. 

E. C. Houston, Company G, Eighth Texas, 
Sommerville. 

W. P. Zuber, San Jacinto Veteran, Austin. 

W. F. Caldwell, Company G, Sixteenth Texas, 
Austin. 

Sam Maverick, Company G, Eighth Texas, 
San Antonio. 

L. W. Clampitt, Moreno Battalion Cavalry, 
Austin. 

J. J. Phipps, Company A, First Tennessee, 
Dripping Springs. 

E. D. Goree, Gould's Battalion, Knox City. 

C. C. Patton, Company B, McCord's Eegi- 
ment. Blanco. 

A. W. Rowe, Company B, Seventeenth Tex- 
as, Austin. 

J. A. King, Company H, Fourth Alabama, 
Pandora. 

C. L. Prewitt, Company I, Third Texas. 

E. L. Dunman, Company K, Eighth Texas, 
Coleman. 

T. Henderson, Company H, First Mississippi, 
Sogers. 

J. D. Fields, Company B, Fourteenth Ken- 
tucky, Manor. 

M. L. Eeed, Company I, Thirty-first Missis- 
sippi, Hanley. 

Lee Giles, Company G, Eighth Texas Cavalry, 
Austin. 

Eoll of comrades present having been com- 
pleted and badges issued, reunion was called to 
order by General Wm. R. Hambv, President of 
the Association. Opened with eloquent prayer 
by Eev. J. W. Stevens, Chaplain of Association. 

ADDRESS OF GEN. WM. R. HAMBY. 

The address of William E. Hamby, President 
of the Hood's Texas Brigade Association, was 
devoted largely to an eloquent defense of the 
Southern soldier and the justness of the cause 
for which he fought, declaring that it was not 
a "lost cause," but that the principles for which 
the Confederacy contended are becoming more 
and more recognized and vindicated. They are 
the eternal principles, declared the speaker, 
which underlie the Constitution and which can 
know no defeat. 

The address follows: 

These reunions bring together comrades who 
shared with each other the dangers, the hard- 



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Bhips and the privations of war and who in I8G0 
returned to the walks of civil life with the con- 
sciousness of having through all the vicissitudes 
of that great struggle always tried to do their 
duty. You meet to talk over the scenes and 
incidents, and associations of camp life and to 
talk of deeds of which the proudest on earth 
might well be proud, for wherever duty called 
as long as the flag of the Confederacy waved, 
there was Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Comrades, it is now more than forty-five 
years since you stacked your arms at Appomat- 
tox and returned to your homes foot-sore, weary, 
hungry and ragged, but as each year passes the 
glory of your record shines with increasing 
brightness. Forty-five years ago when the Con- 
federate flag, which you had served so well, was 
forever furled, but few of you had reached your 
manhood but as we look around us today we see 
the heardless boy has grown into the gray-haired 
grandsire, the youngest of whom is fast ap- 
proaching his three-score and ten. The most of 
your comrades have heard their last tattoo and 
are awaiting the reveille for roll call on their 
last parade grounds where we, too, must soon re- 
port for inspection and where we will all be 
judged by our record as God gave us the intel- 
ligence to know our duty and the strength and 
the courage to do it. 

The South accepted the defeat of her armies 
in the utmost good faith and not one man in 
ten thousand would change the result if he 
could, and I feel that I voice the sentiment of 
every Confederate soldier when I salute the 
Stars and Stripes as the flag of our country ; 
the only flag and the only country to which we 
owe allegiance, but that does not mean we 
fought for a "lost cause." The soldiers of the 
Confederacy rebelled against Federal power, 
but they were not traitors. Those who still call 
us traitors and rebels think treason is the child 
of the South and that it was conceived in the 
sin of slavery and was bom in the iniquity of 
secession. They overlook the fact that treason, 
slavery and secession are all children of New 
England. The first of all the colonies to legal- 
ize traffic in human slavery and to pass laws for 
the regulation and control of trade in African 
slaves was Massachusetts. The first speech ever 
made in favor of the dissolution of the Union 
was made by a Congressman from New Eng- 
land. The first convention ever held on Amer- 
ican soil to consider the question of secessif.n 
was held in New England and was partic- 
ipated in only by repre-^entatives from Now 
England States. They did not then think that 
secession and the right of local self-government 
were treasonable heresies. 

During the war of 1812-15 the people of 



New England treasonably gave aid and comfort 
to Great Britain and denounced the United 
States for prosecuting the war. The Governor 
of JIassachusetts and the Governor of Connec- 
ticut treasonably refused to furnish their quota 
of troops to defend the honor of the flag of their 
country and to repel from American soil a for- 
eign invader, while the Governor of New Hamp- 
shire apologized for having done so. 

It was on Southern soil where the first decla- 
ration of civil and religious liberty was ever 
proclaimed in America. It was on Southern 
soil where the first written constitution ever 
frame! in America was adopted. It was a 
Southern man who wrote the Declaration of 
Independence. It was a Southern man w'-o led 
the rebels of 1776 to victory. It was a South- 
em man who led the American army to victory 
again in 1815. It was a Southern man who 
led the American army to victory up"n for- 
eign soil in 1846. It was a Southern 
man who proclaimed that distinctive American 
idea known as the "Monroe Doctrine," which 
is respected and obeyed by every foreign power. 
It was under the administration of Southern 
men as Presidents of the United States that 
were added more than three-fourths of all the 
territory that now comprises the States of the 
American Union. The Union was as dear to 
the people of the South as to those of the North, 
but they wanted a Union of sovereign States, 
not a centralized government of supreme fed- 
eral power, and when they resorted to arms it 
was to assert their constitutional rights. Be- 
cause the Federal armies triumphed ; because 
the Confederate flag went down in defeat does 
not mean that the principles for which the 
South fought were wrong or that we were fight- 
ing for a "lost cause." John the Baptist was 
beheaded by Herod and Christ was crucified by 
Pilate, but the cause for which they gave their 
lives is immortal. For nearly 2,000 vears Chris- 
tianity has been fighting Satan, but because the 
world is full of error, sin and hynocrisy shall 
we say the cause of Christ is a "lost cause?" 
The flag of the Confederacy was bathed in 
the blood of our men and the tears of our 
women, was buried in 1865, but the principles 
it renresented and for which so many of our 
comrades gave their lives, can never die. 

While the Southern Confederacy has been 
buried in the tomb of dead nations, and buried 
so deep the resurrectionist can never reach it, 
yet no principle of government has b"en more 
fully discussed or more distinctly affirmed in 
recent years by the Supreme Court of the United 
State', which is the final interpreter of the Con- 
stitution, than the doctrine that the Federal 
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delegated to it bv express grant from the States, 
and that any tendency to enlarge those powers 
bv looFC construction should be restricted ; that 
the Federal Government has no inherent power 
outside of the enumerated powers of the Consti- 
tution ; that the Federal Government is of lim- 
ited authority and its officers are restricted to 
those distinctly enumerated in the Constitution; 
that the States with all of their just powers are 
essential to the preservation of our liberties. 
These are the great principles for which the 
South fought for four years, and yet we hear 
men talk of the "lost cause." God forbid that 
anv man who wore the uniform of a Confederate 
soldier should ever give utterance to that detest- 
able term. Xo cause was ever lost whose pur- 
pose was just and honest. 

The men who fought at Lexington, at Con- 
cord rnd nt Bunker Hill were denoimced as 
traitors, but the men at Yorktown were hailed 
as patriots. At the beginning of the Eevolu- 
tionary War our fathers were rebels, but when 
success crowned their labors they were heroes 
who had given freedom to their country. Be- 
fore that war the people of the different col- 
onies were separated by distances, e=tranged by 
sectional differences and bv prejudices of race 
and of creed, but when Virginia said the "cause 
of ^lassTchusetts is the cause of all," prejudices 
and differences were buried from the granite 
hills of Xew England, and from Xew York, 
from South Carolina and from Georgia was 
heard one universal shout of fraternity and pa- 
triotism. 

At tl e beginning of the Revolutionary War 
the thirteen colonies were each under allegiance 
to Great Britain, but no more connected with 
each other than the Dominion of Canada is now 
conne-ted with the government of Australia, 
and the Declaration of Independence was for 
thirteen separate and distinct nations. The 
treaty of peace betwen the colonies and Grcit 
Britain at the close of that war acknowledged 
the independence of the thirteen colonies, 
naming each one separately and distinctly to be 
Sovereign States, and transferred the sover- 
eiffnty of the king to the sovereignty of the peo- 
ple. The people created the States, and the 
States created the United States, and no princi- 
ple of government is more thoroughly establish- 
ed than that which declares the creature can 
never become greater than the creator. 

After the adoption of the Constitution, it 
was found nccessarv to perfect that instrument 
with certain amendments to more fully express 
and define the rights of the States and of the 
peoi'lo and to fix the powers nnd '''nitations of 
the Federal Government. The Ninth amend- 
ment says: "The enumeration of certain rijrhts 



shall not be construed to deny or disparage oth- 
ers retained by the people," but the Tenth 
amendment, with prophetic vision, de- 
clares that "the powers not delegated to 
the United States by the Constitution, 
nor prohibited by it to the States, are 
reserved to the States respectively or to the 
people." The sovereignty of the States is not 
a matter of concession ; it is a sacred right which 
can not be alienated, and every attempt to re- 
strict that right is a violation of the Constitu- 
tion. The basic principle of the Declaration 
of Independence is that all free governments 
derive their just powers from the consent of the 
governed, and it specifically says. "Wienever 
any form of government becomes destructive of 
these ends it is the right of the people to alter 
or abolish it and to institute a new sovernment, 
laying its foundation on such principles and or- 
ganizinsr its powers in such form as shall seem 
most likely to effect their safetv and happiness." 
If these principles had not been thorough- 
Iv recognized by the fathers of our country, 
the Union would never have been formed, and 
it was to preserve them and not to destroy 
the government that caused the Southern States 
to withdraw from the Union. 

The men of the South were taught that the 
sovereignty of the State was the seed of the 
Union and that the Constitution was the ark 
of the covenant in which was carried the liber- 
ties of the people. We believed then, as we be- 
lieve now, that except for the powers expressly 
delegated to the Federal Government the States 
were and of right ought to be sovereign, and 
upon this issue the lines of battle were formed. 

The South has no apologies to offer for the 
history her sons made during the war between 
the states. They fought for the right, as God 
gave them the intelligence to know their duty 
and the strength and the courage to do it, and 
it is a matter of regret that any one should feel 
called upon, when speaking of the war and its 
results, to use the apologetic expression that the 
men of the South "lielieved" they were right. 
We lost our confederacy, but we cemented a con- 
stituti' ml uni'^n of sovereign states and planted 
the seeds of State sovereignty so deep that time 
can never root them up. A new light has dawn- 
ed upon the people of our whole country, the 
East iind the West, the Xortli as well as the 
South, now recognize that there is no higher 
human law than the constitution of our coun- 
try, and that no man can be a good citizen who 
does not honor and respect that constitution 
and who does not obev the laws made in obedi- 
ence thereto. 

Xo greater error was ever given currency 
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the causes of the war between the states. They 
were merely incidents of that great struggle. 
Of all the men who fought beneath the Confed- 
erate flag; of all the men who died upon the 
field of battle fighting for the sovereign rights 
of local self-government, I do not believe one- 
tenth of them ever owned a slave and certain- 
ly thev could not have been fighting for the per- 
petuation of slavery. In the beginning of his 
administration Mr. Lincoln declared he would 
be guided by the constitution and the laws of 
his country, and that he did not have the power 
nor did he have the desire to interfere either 
directly or indirectly with the institutions of 
slavery ; that slavery would be as safe under his 
adminijtratinn as in the days of Washington, but 
after nianv thousands of lives had been sacri- 
ficed and hundreds of millions of dollars had 
been spent in the efforts of the Federal gov- 
ernment to preserve and perpetuate the Union, 
and' in violation of the laws it was his duty to 
see were faithfully executed but in recognition 
of a "higher law'' than the constitution he had 
sworn to support, he issued his emancipation 
proclamation in September, 1862, as a mili- 
tary necessitv. That proclmiation declared that 
slavery should cease to exist in any of the South- 
ern states unless they returned to their allegi- 
ance to the Union by the first of January, 18G3, 
but slaves in the border states and in Southern 
states inside the Federal lines were omitted from 
its benefits. That proclamation was not issued 
because of love for the negro or in vindication 
of human rights as declared by the advocates of 
the "higher law,'' but was strictly a military ne- 
cessity. It encouraged and fo.stered a spirit of 
unrest and insubordination among the negroes 
inside of the Confederate lines which in turn 
aroused the gravest apprehensions among the 
soldiers for the safety of their loved ones at 
home, and as opportunitv offered the negroes 
flocked in droves to the Federal camps in ex- 
pectation that the Federal government would 
confiscate tlie property of all the Southern peo- 
ple and give to every negro "forty acres and a 
mule." 

Different social and economic conditions 
between the North and South created different 
conceptions of jiovernment. These different 
ideas drifted further and further apart and 
what at first was only a friendly controversy, 
was finally carried into legislative halls and 
into the nulpit and steadily became more and 
more hostile. For more than fifty years "the ir- 
repressible conflict" had been aggressively 
fought and holding convictions so radically dif- 
ferent it was only a question of time when the 
conflict must be tranferred to the field of bat- 
tle. The Federal armies preserved the Union, 



but with all their numbers and power they were 
not strong enough to change customs and laws 
of the Southern people. 

During the years of reconstruction when de- 
gradation and disaster seemed to run riot the 
men of the South showed that true nobility of 
character that make a great and noble people. 
Patiently and courageously they successfully 
met every obstacle that was placed in their path- 
way. No matter how dark the clouds ; how groat 
the calamity, nor what the danger, their true 
courage rose to that highest attribute of man 
which fears nothing but conscience and bows to 
nothing but duty. 

After the clos? of the war the thirteenth, 
fouiteenth and fifteenth amendments were add- 
ed to the constitution, and while not discussing 
the ways and means of the adoption of these 
amendments, which were the direct results of 
the war, yet they do not in any way abridge the 
right of local self-sovernment or the sovereign- 
ty of the states. The men of the North fought 
to preserve the Union ; the men of the South 
fought to preserve the principles upon which 
the Union was formed, and to this extent both 
were successful. The Union was preserved and 
made stronger than ever before; the constitu- 
tion, unchanged and unchangeable still, guaran- 
teed the sovereignty of the state and the right 
of local self-government. The men of the South 
did not fight for conquest, for power or for any 
new ideas in government; they stood for the 
sovereignty of the states and the people ; for lo- 
cal self-government ; for home rule, the only cor- 
rect and just principles of free government. 

Secretary Stanton and General Miles had the 
physical power to imnrison President Davis and 
to load him down with chains, but the Federal 
authorities dare not place him upon trial, even 
before a jury of their own selection, because they 
knew that under the constitution of the United 
States he was not guilty of treason, and that he 
could not be convicted. The decisions of the su- 
preme court, the highest tribunal on earth, have 
construed the constitution in entire harmony 
with the interpretation placed upon that instru- 
ment by the people of the South and we appeal 
with confidence to the truth of history for the 
vindication of our actions and motives, and 
when the passions and prejudices and the hate 
and bitterness that has assailed the soldiers of 
the Confederacy shall have been buried their 
achievements will shine as clear and as brilliant 
as the setting sun of a stormy day. 

If men of the North fought bravely and suc- 
cessfully to preserve the TTnion, the men of the 
South have struggled nobly and grandly to pre- 
serve the principles upon which the Union was 
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vestige of the animosities of the war will be for- 
ever buried and the hemic deeds of both sides 
will be the pride and common heritage of all the 
American people. 

Comrades, we are all growing old ; our hearts 
beat slower and our footsteps are shorter; the 
storms and tempests of life will soon be over 
with all of us. The sun is sinking low ; nearer 
and nearer the starlight appears; the most of 
our comrades have already stretched their tents 
on their eternal camp ground, and when the last 
of us shall be closing the line in our march to 
that mystic land beyond the skies, who can say 
the work of the Confederate soldier was in vain ? 
The spirits of those who have gone before us 
rise like the morning light and tell us they did 
not die for a "lost cause." May God bless you, 
my comrades, with His most precious blessings 
and benedictions and when vour last sun has set 
on this earth may you awake in that blessed day, 
that radiant morning that has no evening. 

The address of the President, William R. 
Hamby, was well received and was punctuated 
with generous applau-e. Especially pleising was 
his earnest declaration that it was not a "losr 
cause'' for which the Southern soldier fought, 
but that its principles were being vindicated 
with the passing years. "If the men of the 
North fought to preserve the Union," the speak- 
er declared, "the men of the South fought to 
preserve the principles on which the Union was 
founded." 

The old soldiers were welcomed on behalf of 
Albert Sidney Johnston chapter. United Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy, in a feeling address by 
the chapter President, Jlrs. W. T. Wroe. Mrs. 
Wroe referred touchingly to her own sacrifice 
of a father and a mother to the Southern cause, 
and affirmed her undying interest in all per- 
sons and things connected with the Confeder- 
acy. There could be no doul)ting the genuine- 
ness of the welcome extended by Mrs. Wroe. 

Ex-Governor Joseph D. Savers was introduced 
as one who admired Hood's Brigade as warmly 
as would be possible were he a member. Gov- 
ernor Sayers in extending welcome declared that 
Austin had a peculiar interest in the Hood Bri- 
gade, not only because its monument stands here- 
l)ut because of the gallant Carter and his Tom 
Green Eifies who marched away from here in 
the opening days of the conflict. Most of the 
address was devoted to a review of the Brigade's 
war record for a period of three months from 
June to September, 18f)2. The losses of the 
three Texas re<rin:ents at Gaines' Mill, he de- 
clared, were 275, or 5.5 per cent of a total of 
428 men ; at Eraser's farm the First Texas lost 
in killed and wounded almost an entire com- 
pany ; at Second Manassas the losses were 3GG, 



and at Sharpsburg 63 per cent of a total of 605 
fell. In this, one of the greatest battles of the 
war, said the speaker, the Eirst Texas lost 186 
out of a total of 226, or 82 1-3 per cent, this 
being a far greater proportion of loss than that 
sustained by the celebrated "Light Brigade" of 
the British at Balaklava. "Hood's was the 
greate-t brigade that ever enlisted under any 
flag in any cause in any country," declared the 
distinguished speaker. "They certainly have 
long deserved a monument." 

A response to the address of welcome was 
made by Major A. G. Clopton of Jefferson. 
He spoke in glowing terms of Austin's prover- 
bial hospitality, declaring that he had known 
the place since he attended the secession con- 
vention here, and before. "Then it was a small 
town," said he ; "now it has grown to be a great 
city." Speaking of General Hood and the re- 
sults of the war, he declared that Hood was 
opposed to the surrender at Appomattox, favor- 
ing a fight to extermination. He believed that 
the South would be reduced to vassalage. "He 
no doubt modified that opinion during his life- 
time," the speaker said, "and if he had lived till 
now he would completely reverse it ; for he 
would see that the cause for which he fought — 
state's rights — still lives." 

The following persons occupied the platform 
during the morning session: General W. R. 
Hamby, president ; E. K. Goree, secretary ; Rev. 
J. W. Stevens, chaplain, who delivered the in- 
vocation ; Mrs. W. T. Wroe. Ex-Governor J. D. 
Savers, Major E. Charles Hume, Major A. G. 
Clopton and General W. L. Cabell. 

The program was interspersed with music, 
and a medley played by Mrs. Cecelia Town- 
send of Austin pleased the audience immense- 
ly, particularly when the strains of Dixie caught 
their ears. 

The senate chamber was appropriately deco- 
rated with Texas, Confederate and United States 
flags, and with palms and ferns. 

AFTERNOON SESSION-2:30 P. M. 

From the standpoint of the old soldier the af- 
ternoon was a continual feast of things good 
for the soul. A few of them can be referred to 
only briefly. 

The reading of telegrams and letters from 
distant comrades was of the most intense in- 
terest. Letters from W. A. George, in whose 
possession the Fifth Texas flag had lieen for 
forty years, were of particular interest. This 
flag, with the torn banners of the other two 
Texas regiments, was presented to the associa- 
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the Fifth regiment, was read, as was one from 
Hon. 0. B. Colquitt, expressing regret. 

An address by General W. L. Cabell of Dal- 
las was a feature of the meeting. 

The memorial address was delivered by Cap- 
tain W. E. Bairy of Navasota, and at the end of 
his speech he called attention to the fact that 
one of the two survivors of the battle of San 
Jacinto, W. P. Zuber, was in the house; amid 
much enthusiasm he moved that Mr. Zuber bo 
made an honorary member of the Brigade. The 
aged man was assisted upon a table — for the 
audience would not be denied a speech — and he 
thanked them for the honor, saying that he took 
it not all to himself, but rather as a proxy for 
those who have preceded him across the silent 
river. 

The poem, "Hood's Texas Brigade," was read 
with much feeling by Judge West of Waco, 
father of Miss Decca Lamar West, who was 
unavoidably detained at home. 

Several excellent musical selections were ren- 
dered, routine business was transacted and the 
veterans and ladies took a trolley ride to the 
Confederate Home. 

An elegant address was delivered by Major 
F. Charles Hume, who reviewed the part played 
by the brigade in the civil war. Major Hume 
Eaid: 

SPEECH OF MAJOR HUME. 

Ladies, Citizens of Austin : In acknowledg- 
ing this sweet, yet stately welcome, I may, with- 
out irreverence, speak alike for our brothers who 
are dead and for those who survive ; for we know 
that could the battlefield and the grave yield 
up life again the men who fought with us in 
that far time of suffering and glory, we should 
now have here to thank you all who once con- 
stituted that militant force called Hood's Texas 
Brigade. 

You who have been so generous and gracious 
as to make this occasion possible and to bid us 
here in honor to enjoy it, will not think us boast- 
ful when we saj^ that the name you commemo- 
rate was one to conjure with in the old days. 
When in the stress of unequal conflict the thin 
Confederate line was well nigh broken, and 
skill and courage had dealt the last resisting 
blow to the heavier force of the advancing 
enemy, a staff officer would spur his spent horse 
to the officer in command with a message like 
to this : "General Longstreet's compliments ; he 
directs that you hold your ground — the Texas 
brigade is moving to vour assistance." And 
then, the message speeding like electricity, the 
nearly beaten troops, as if by miracle, grew 
steady — lost the s?nse of fatigue and apprehen- 



sion — closed the drifting line — renewed the 
struggle as if the strength of each was as the 
strength of ten, and assumed the offensive — 
shouting that battle cry which was never heard 
by friend without exultation, nor by foe without 
distress. 

A STORY OF GR.'i.NT. 

The brigade was of that tempered quality 
that held it strong and true even when worn, 
like fine steel, to a mere fragment. When 
Grant, in 1864, was making his last effort to 
reach Richmond by the direct line and the ar- 
mies confronted each other in the trenches, I 
persuaded my small company of scouts to go 
with me from the Williamsburg country to my 
old comrades of the Fifth, and to share their 
fortunes until our service should be required 
elsewhere. We were heartily welcomed ; and I 
am proud to recall that the scouts proved them- 
selves worthy of their new association. Re- 
portinsr to Captain Farmer, then commanding 
the Fifth, he and I were soon engaged in a 
free and informal talk. Remarking upon the 
startling reduction of the brigade by battle, I 
said it would seem that such and so frequent 
experiences must chill the courage of the surviv- 
ors. The captain, his eyes flashins with a sol- 
dier's pride, answered : "Hume, I used to fear 
that myself — but, my God ! you should have 
seen them at the Wilderness!" 

As they were in winter quartere on the Poto- 
mac — on the retreat from Yorktown — at Elt- 
ham's landing, where, as rear guard of the 
army they drove back the flanking troops of the 
enemy — they remained throughout all the years 
that were to come, until, at Lee's command, 
they stacked their arms at Appomattox. 
Through the heat and dust of summer — 
throudi the chill autumn streams — over dim 
mountain roads lighted only by the flames of 
battle — they had made their mental way to 
that fateful field. 

CHERISH THEIR MEMORY. 

I may not enumerate battles — there were too 
many ; nor catalogue deeds of special brilliancy 
and heroism — these were too frequent ; nor sig- 
nalize this man or that with eulogy — all de- 
serve, I trust, your pra3'ers and tears and mem- 
ory. 

And it will be an evil day when they shall be 
no longer cherished in the homes, the schools, 
the history, the literature, the traditions, the 
songs, the love of the people whose rights they 
strove to save. The race that so sins dies — and 
should die. 

And pray remember this: That whatsoever 
is said, now or hereafter, the men of the brigade 
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brothers, fought for tlie rights of their states 
and people existing independent of the Federal 
constitution and the Federal government — the 
right to live under their own laws and institu- 
tions — to resist unto death the invasion of a foe, 
armed with torch as well as sword and com- 
mitting the douhle infamy of despoilment and 
murder- — to protect from his intrusion and vio- 
lence the homes that sheltered them and the 
people of their blood and love. 

It may be that those of our brothers who fell 
were favored of God, and that the do:ith damp 
on their upturned faces was but His chrismal 
seal. For 

To every man upon this earth 

Death cometh soon or late. 
And how can man die better 

Than facing fearful odds. 
For the ashes of his fathers 

And the temples of his gods, 
And for the tender mother 

Who dandled him to rest 
An 1 for the wife who nurses 

His baby at her breast? 

MUSIC AT NIGHT 

With a delightful musical program inter- 
spersed with Southern melodies by the Austin 
Business League band, under the direction of 
Dr. H. E. Baxter, the old veterans of a thousand 
hard-fought battles were entertained at the sen- 
ate chamber at the capitol. After a selection 
by the band, which was in the army uniform, a 
solo bv Mrs. H. Guest Collins so delighted the 
old soldiers that they insisted on another selec- 
tion, whirh was rendered, after which a quar- 
tette selection bv Mrs. J. W. Morirs, Mrs. H. 
Guest Collins, Mr. Judd James and Mr. H. L. 
Clamp received repeated applause. A band con- 
cert during the reception followed, at which the 
Albert Sidney Johnston chapter of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy acted hostess. 

After Major Hume's address regular business 
began. 

Minutes of last Reunion at Jefferson, Texas, 
June 26th and 27th, 1909, were adopted with- 
out reading. 

Beport of Secretary was received and order- 
ed filed with minutes. 

President General Ilamby read the following 
letters and telegrams, and same were ordered 
filed with minutes of Association. 

From John D. Murray, Company F, Fourth 
Texas Begt. 

From B. J. Burgess, Company D, Fourth 
Texas Begt. 



From Ed Buckley, Eagle Pass, Texas, Com- 
pany L, First Texas Begt. 

From J. W. Trowbridge, Company E, First 
Texas Begt. 

From Captain A. C. Jones, Third Arkansas 
Begt. 

From Winfield S. Bush, Company I, First 
Texas Begt. 

From Milt Livingston, Company C, Fourth 
Texas Begt. 

From A. M. Erskine, Company D, Fourth 
Texas Begt. 

From W. A. Jones, Company C, Fourth Tex- 
as Begt. 

From G. H. Crozier, Company B, Fourth 
Texas Begt. 

From A. M. Lemmon, Company I, Fourth 
Texa.s Begt. 

From John G. Gates, Company I, First Tex- 
as Begt. 

From J. M. Blaylock, Company A, First 
Texas Begt. 

From F. A. Weems, Jacksonville, Ga., Eigh- 
teenth Georgia Begt. 

From Colonel B. M. Powell, St. Louis, Mo., 
Fifth Texas Begt. 

From General Albert L. Meyer, U. S. Army, 
San Antonio, Texas. 

From Captain E. H. Cunningham, San An- 
tonio, Texas, Company D, Fourth Texas Begt. 

From T. F. Meece, Livingston, Texas, Com- 
pany K, Fifth Texas Begt. 

From A. H. Carter, Eagle Lake, Company 
B, Fifth Texas Begt. 

From Marshal Hambv, Palestine, Company 
G, First Texas Begt. 

From J. D. Smith, Granite, Okla., Company 
D, Fourth Texas Begt. 

From Ben L. Dver, Opelika, Ala., Company 
A, Fifth Texas Begt. 

From D. M. Campbell, Houston, Texas, Com- 
pany D, Fifth Texas Begt. 

From M. Pomeroy, Clara, Millstreet. Cork 
County, Ireland, Companv A, Fifth Texaa 
Ee.fft. 

From A. F. Wiggs, Bonham, Texas, Company 
F, Fifth Texas Begt. 

From J. E. Landes, Chappell Hill, Company 
A, Fifth Texas Best. 

From T. L. ]\IcCarty, Oklahoma City, Okla., 
Company L, First Texas Begt. 

From B. E. Stratton. Midway, Texas, Com- 
pany H, Fourth Texas Begt. 

From Mrs. Willis Alston, communicating 
death of her husband. 

From Mrs. Minnie B. Webb, communicating 
death of her father. 

From George W. Donaghey, Governor of Ar- 
kansas. 



j^/^^>tt:;-v;i'>^ :•>.•■': .-A' 



Not long unfurled was I known, 

For Fate was against me: 
But I flashed over a pure cause. 

And on land and sea, 
So fired the hearts of men untO' heroism 

That the world honors me. ' 
Within my folds the dead, who died under them 

Lie nobly shrouded : 

And my tattered colors, 
Crowned with a thousand shining victories 
Have become. 
For the people who loved me, 
A glorified memory. 

— John Difnitry. 




It will live in song and story, 
Wreathed about with folds of glory, 
For there's not a hand to wave it, 
Nor a soldier left to lave it, 
In the blood that heroes gave it. 
Forever furled in Heaven, let it rest 
Among God's angels and the blest. 



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From M. N. Ansel, Governor of South Caro- 
lina. 

From Joseph M. Brown, Governor of Geor- 
gia. 

From 0. B. Colquitt, Governor of Texas. 

From Thomas A. Pope, G. A. R. Veteran, 
Cameron, Texas. 

From S. A. Cunningham, Confederate Vet- 
eran, Nashville, Tenn. 

From J. T. Bowman, for 0. B. Colquitt, 
Austin, Texas. 

From Miss Decca Lamar West, Waco, Texas. 

From Miss Katie Daffan, San Augustine, 
Texas. 

From Mrs. M. F. Farris, Huntsville. Texas. 

From Mrs. C. G. Barrett, Huntsville, Texas. 

There being no standing committees to re- 
port, unfinished business was taken up. 

Rolls of the various Companies of the three 
Texas Regiments, now in possession of Secre- 
tary E. K. Goree, were ordered turned over to 
General W. R. Hamby, through him to be fur- 
ther corre:^ted by selected members of the 33 
Companies, nnd then to be bound into a book 
and deposited in office of State Librarian at 
Austin. General Hamby accepted the trust. 

THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG. 



Yes, the war is over, 

The drum and fife put by. 
And cannon's smoke no longer wreathe 

Dark clouds upon our sky. 
Southern rights are washed beneath 

The surge of himian blood ; 
Yet, faithful to the wretched end 

Our bonny banner stood. 

CHORUS. 

We love it, we love it ; 
Nor holds broad earth an art 
That can destroy that bonny blue flag. 

Tattooed upon our heart. 

Though its path was four years long, 

And every track a grave, 
It ne'er has trailed upon the ground. 

Or once did pity crave. 
From hand to hand 'twas hoist on high, 

With many a dying cheer. 
And oft its mournful folds have borne 

The soldier's, last fond tear. 

CHORUS. 

We love it, we love, etc., etc. 



Many a noble patriot hand 

Upon its staff grew cold. 
And oft the clammy dews of death 
Have drenched its cherished fold. 
Many a heart's last beat has died 

Upon its rustling way, 

Content and proud in its support 

To find an honored grave. 

CHORUS. 

We love it, we love, etc., etc. 

Preserve our flag, it yet will be 

The chosen pet of fame ; 

No nobler standard ever yet 

Has worn its dazzling name, 
The ffrand&st deeds of chivalry, 

Speak from every bar, 
And the world must honor that bonny blue flag 

That bore the single star. 

CHORUS. 

We love it, we love it, 
Nor holds broid earth an art 
That can destroy tb.e bonny blue flag 

Tattooed upon our heart. 

— Chattie Beall. 
Washington, D. C. 

Durina: presentation of the old flags of the 
First, Fourth and Fifth Texa.s, interest be- 
came so great that a recess of ten minutes was 
taken in order that all might touch and kiss the 
sacred relics. 

A resolution was offered thanking Comrade 
W. A. George for the preservation and presen- 
tation of the Fifth Texas flag, and authorizing 
Capt. W. T. Hill to deposit same in Confederate 
Museum at the Capitol. 

Memorial address by Comrade W. E. Barry 
was fullv up to that standard that has marked 
each preceding reunion for many years wherein 
none has been found to take from our able 
comrade his sacred duty. Following is a list 
of tho,se who have passed away since last re- 
union : — 

W. 0. Morgan, Co. I, Fifth Texas Regt. 
S. A. Jones, Co. D, Fourth Texas Regt. 
Arthur H. Allison, Co. C, Fifth Texas Regt. 

A. W. Nicbolls, Co. B, Fourth Texas Regt. 

B. F. Bullock, Co. H, Fourth Texas Regt. 
Charles S. Settle, Co. A, Fifth Texas Regt. 
John Dick, Co. I, Fifth Texas Regt. 
Hugh Parker, Co. I, Fifth Texas Rest. 
Geo. A. Branard, Co. L, First Texas Regt. 
Leonard Gill, Co. E, Fifth Texas Regt. 
Willis Alston, Co. D, Fifth Texas Regt. 



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A. B. Green, Livingston, Co. K, Fifth Texas 

Kegt. 

Frank Strohmcr, Co. B, Fourth Texas Kegt. 

Louis Coleman, Co. A, Fifth Texas Regt. 

Elias Newsom, Co. G, First Texas Regt. 

Capt. J. D. Roberdeau, Co. B, Fifth Texas 
Regt. 

W. H. Lessing, Co. B, Fourth Texas Regt. 

J. W. MeCov. Co. K, Fifth Texas Regt, 

Frank X. Webb. Co. G, Fourth Texas Regt. 

Mark S. Womack, Co. G, Fourth Texas Regt. 

A. J. Procella, Co. K, First Texas Regt. 

I. Honnisberg, Co. H, First Texas Regt. 

J. J. A. Capps, Co. H, First Texas Recrt. 

W. H. Watson, Co. C, First Texas Regt. 

Geo. A. Hodges, Co. D, Fourth Texas Regt. 

S. W. Sewell, Co. H, Fifth Texas Regt. 

Cadmus Wilburn, Co. F, Fifth Texas Regt. 

Hugh Carter, Co. K, Fourth Texas Regt. 

D. A. Tilton, Co. F, Fifth Texas Regt. 

J. M. Pool. Co. G. Fifth Texas Resjt. 

Lt. E. M. Bean, Co. G, Fifth Texas Regt. 

J. B. Small, Co. G, Fifth Texas Re^. 

W. A. Watson, Co. H, Fourth Texas Regt. 

MEMORIAL ADDRESS OF COMRADE 
W. E. BARRY 

President, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

It was with a profound sense of the high 
honor conferred upon me by our President that 
I consented to address you on this sacred and 
solemn occasion. 

It is a duty we owe to ourselves and to our 
dead, that we should lay aside all business cares 
and spend a .short while in memorial service, 
and pay a loving tribute to the memory of our 
beloved and honored dead. It is with a trem- 
bling hand that I sweep the silent chords of 
memory, and I again see in the splendor of their 
young manhood, so many of our comrades, who 
gave their young lives for that heroic cause so 
dear to all of us. No truer or purer patriots 
ever gave themselves for a nobler cause. 

No braver men ever went forth to battle for 
the right, and breasted tlie storm of leaden hail, 
than our own dear loved comrades. You read 
and study the paces of ancient and modern his- 
tory, and you will not find recorded there, any 
deed that will surpass the resistless charge at 
Gaines' Jlill, Second Jlanassas, Sharppburg, tbi' 
rock ribbed height^ of Gettysburg, and tbe blood 
stained field of Chickamauga. In all these 
bloody holocausts how nobly did we sustain our 
reputation and in many other liattlc and skir- 
mishes did we uphold the honor and glory of 
Texps. We exhibited to the world that we were 
worthy sons of a noble parentage, who had im- 
mortalized themselves at the Alamo, Goliad and 



San Jacinto, and on all the battlefields of Mex- 
ico. Let me pause a moment to tell you who 
made and helped to make the glorious history 
of Hood's Texas Brigade. The 1st Texas, the 
4th and 5th Texas Infantry, the 18th Georgia, 
lovingly called the 3rd Texas and Hajnpton's 
Legion (the last two regiments in 1802 were 
assigned to other brigades), and that splendid 
regiment, the 3rd Arkansas, came to us, and af- 
terwards bore a conspicuous part in all the bat- 
tles in which we were engaged, and is entitled 
to share in the renown we won on so many 
bloody fields. 

What a long roll of our dead sleep upon 
thrse illustrious fields ! Texas, Georgia, South 
Carolina and Arkansas sons sleep side by side 
in unmarked graves. Can we forget those dead 
heroes? Can we forget these private champions 
of that glorious cause? Can we forget tbe weary 
marches, in Winter's storm or Summer's sun, 
the pangs of hunger, the ghastly wounds, with 
weakened bodies and tottering steps, but with 
dauntless souls facing the storm of battle, sink- 
ing to rise no more? Our brave comrades sleep 
well in uiimirked graves and our God knows 
where they rest, and glory stands sentinel over 
the bivouac of our dead. 

The remnant of that glorious band is here 
today, with bowed heads and faltering footsteps 
waiting, listen'ng, for the grand reveille to 
sound. The resurrection will come, the un- 
known graves will give up our dead, and we will 
meet again, for our comrades bore upon their 
brows the seal of immortality. 

My old comrades of a hundred battle fields 
and skirmishes, we too will soon be at rest. Who 
will be next to meet over the river our comrades 
who have gone before? Who ever it may be, tell 
Lee. Jackson. Longstreet and Hood, in all the 
civil walks of life we have done our duty and 
kept the faith. I can not close until I lay some 
tribute of homage to the memory of our moth- 
ers of those bloody days, when Southern chivalry 
was in full flower. By their sex they were pre- 
vented from engaging in the fiery ordeal of 
battle, but were our ministering antrels in our 
sufferings, our solace in the hour of defeat, ever 
cheering us on to duty and to glory. I thank 
God our mothers were Christian mothers, who 
consulted no Delphian Oracle, or went through 
no wild orgies, in dedicating their sons to the 
service of their country. But with a mother's 
prayer like a Ijenediction resting on our heads, 
they fcnt us forth to battle. I pray God the peo- 
))le of this state will erect a monument, with the 
stately form of woman, representing our sainted 
mothers, that will surpass in height and grand- 
eur all other monuments of our State, which 
will hold communion with the Stars, and the 



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morning sun will kiss with tender reverence that 
form as it looks down upon the dome of our 
State Capitol. 

My old comrades, our great wish has been ful- 
filled — the monument erected to Hood's Brig- 
ade will speak to future generations and will 
implant in their hearts noble patriotic senti- 



ments, and will be found battling for right as 
their fathers did and leave untarnished the glor- 
ious heritage we have left them. 

Following conclusion of Comrade Barry's able 
address Association adjourned to meet after 
monument dedication and unveiling which takes 
place tomorrow at 10 :30. 



UNVEILING AND DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO 

HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE MONUMENT. 

Launched in 1907 at the reunion of Hood's 
Brigade at Navasota, the movement for a monu- 
ment to the heroes who died in its battles has 
been continually gathering force until today the 
superb shaft will be unveiled in the presence of 
thousands of spectators, commemorating the 
deeds of the famous brigade. The resolution 
was introduced by Captain F. B. Chilton of the 
Fourth Texas, who has been president of the 
monument committee ever since. By private 
subscription the $15,000 which it cost has been 
raised, the State not contributing one cent and 
only giving the space on the capitol grounds for 
its erection. Personal appeals to comrades and 
patriotic friends have been made and the money 
came pouring in. Among the largest gifts are 
that of Major George W. Littlefield of Austin, 
$1,000, and Hon. John Henry Kirbv of Hous- 
ton, $5,000. The efforts of Miss Katie Daffan, 
then president of the Texas division, United 
Daughters of the Confederacy, netted $1,000 
on a tag day which the ladies conducted for th,j 
purpose. 

The monument is forty-four feet high, thir- 
ty-five feet of which is the granite shaft and the 
other nine feet being the statue of a private sol- 
dier of the brigade in bronze. The base is six- 
teen feet. The monument is of Georgia gran- 
ite, made bv the McXeel Marble company of 
Marietta, Ga. Chiseled on the faces of the 
shaft are quotations from President Jefferson 
Davis, General Robert E. Lee, General Stephen 
D. Lee, General Hood, General Albert Sidney 
Johnston, General Stonewall Jackson and oth- 
ers. 

HOOD'S BRIGADE MONUMENT. 

(by KATIE DAFFAN.) 

And now the concerted action and the untir- 
ing energy of the monument committee who 
have labored so constantly to erect a monu- 
ment to honor the memory of the immortal 



Hood's Brigade, is about to be rewarded in their 
completed work. 

Assisted by many of the grateful, liberal citi- 
zens of this state, and the diligent loyal Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy, this committee has la- 
bored on and on, sometimes boldly stimulated 
in their efforts, often discouraged, now and then 
delayed, but a steadtast purpose and unswerving 
love have now, and on a beautiful autumn day 
in this good year 1910, this substantial evidence 
of the gratitude of the human heart in a beau- 
tiful symbolic monument, will be given to the 
State of Texas and received into her keeping by 
the governor, himself a son of a Confederate 
soldier. 

Well may the sons and daughters of Hood's 
Brigade look with pride though with dimming 
eyes upon this shaft which commemorates the 
self-sacrifice, the long marches, the camp 
nights and the battle fields which their fathers 
shared. 

Well may they give praise to those who have 
so well performed the duty of leadership in this 
difficult, delicate matter of creating a sufficient 
fund to erect this magnificent monument. 

To General Hamby, a member of the brigade, 
and to Captain Chilton, president of committee, 
are due especial gratitude for their continued 
and painstaking effort to Ijring this work to ear- 
h' completion. 

Many of those members who loved their bri- 
gade will look down from their cterml homes in 
the skies upon the scene of the unveiling, this ex- 
pression of their comrades' and their children's 
appreciation. Many of the beloved members of 
the brigade will be present, journeying from 
their distant homes. 

Every son and daughter of the brigade who 
can possibly do so. should and doubtless will be 
present, and if there are those who are kept away 
bv uncontrollable causes, their hearts will beat 
time to the real meaning of this expression of 
patriotism. 

For with one voice, the children of Hood's 
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those who have never rested until tliis last tri- 
bute has been paid to their fathers. 

Our state is rapidly becomino; her own West- 
minster Abbey, for our own are being com- 
memorated in classic marble and bronz?, for 
these monuments our object lessons in history, 
are being placed over our state where our eyes 
may behold and our hearts give praise. 

HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 

Today sliould prove a memorable occasion in 
the history not only of Austin, but Texas as 
well. It is the occasion of the unveiling of the 
monument to Hood's Texas Brigade and it is 
an occasion worthy of special note in conse- 
quence. Thousands upon thousands of Texans, 
both youna; and old, are in attendance. The 
aged and the decrepit, the young and active vie 
one with the other in the matter of attracting 
attention and throughout it all the attention is 
attracted to the occasion and the honor due the 
same. 

Thousands of school children are present, 
many more thousands of Texans and Austin- 
itcs are in attendance and as an honor guard to 
one and rll are the old veterans who, having 
gone tlirough all the ills of war, are prepared to 
play honor guard to such an attendance in 
time of peace. 

The occasion is memorable in Austin's record, 
will prove memorable in history and is an occa- 
sion of which all Texas is proud. 

Great is Hood's Texas Brignle, and ftill great- 
er is its record, of which all Texas is proud, and 
the ovation to be tendered it today is but a slight 
testimonial in that line as demonstrative as it 
will be. — Austin Statesman. 

In honor of which the city of Austin, through 
duly accredited officers, gives out following: 

FINAL PARADE DETAIL. 



Judge Charles Rogan Gives Out Revised Line of March 
and Places to Assemble. 

Judge Charles Eogan, chairman of the com- 
mittee on arrangements, has made everv ar- 
rangement to carry out the parade, but has re- 
arranged the order of the ]iarade as noted be- 
low : 

ORDER OF THE PAR.iDE. 

Band, Dr. H. E. Baxter. 

Firemen. 

Repre-entatives Hood's Brigade, the governor 
and other state officials, including the judges of 
the supreme court, the court of criminal and 
civil appeals. 



The sponsor and her maids. 

Military companies. 

University band 

Hood's Brigade. 

The Confederate Veterans. 

Eepresentative students of the University. 

Public school children. 

ASSISTANT MARSHALS. 

George Wolters in charge of the local fire- 
men. 

A. J. Filers in charge of the automobiles. 

Mijor R. C. Roberdeau in charge of the spon- 
sor and her maids. 

General Henry Hutchings in charge of the 
military division. 

Captain Ben McCulloch in charge of Hood's 
Brigade and the Confederate Veterans. 

Professor A. N. JlcCallum in charge of the 
public school children division. 

A. J. Eilers will call for the state officials 
and other invited guests in front of the state 
Capitol at 9:1.5 a. m. and will convey them in 
their regular order to their positions near the 
center of Congress Avenue between Fourth and 
Fifth streets. 

George Wolters will assemble the fire com- 
panies and firemen on the east or right side of 
Congress Avenue between Fourth and Fifth 
streets. 

Major Roberdeau will arrange the automo- 
biles convoying the sponsor and her maids in 
rear of automobiles in charge of Mr. Eilers. 

General Henry Hutchings will assemble the 
military companies on the west side of Con- 
gress Avenue between Fourth and Fifth 
streets. 

Dr. Baxter's band will take its place imme- 
diately in front of the local firemen. 

The University band will take its place on 
West Fifth street near Congr&ss Avenue and 
w-ill follow the military companies in the pro- 
cession. 

The members of Hood's Brigade and the Con- 
federate Veterans will also assemble on the 
south side of West Fifth street between Con- 
gre-s Avenue and Colorado street. 

Public school children will assemble on East 
Fifth street between Congress Avenue and Bra- 
zos street. 

To insure promptness everybody is requested 
to be in their respective places promptly at 9 :30. 

The following have kindly proffered their 
automobiles for use in the parade and they are 
requested to meet A. J. Eilers in front of the 
ca])itol at 9:15 o'clock sharp. Mr. Eilers being 
in charge of this division will arrange the order 
of seating the state officials and other invited 
guests. 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



Howard Taylor, sents 4; John Pope, 4; Burt 
Posey, 6 ; N. "C. Schlemmer, 4 ; Will Scarbor- 
ough, 4; A. J. L. Stark, 4; Howard McKean, 
4; George Pendexter, 3; John Brvdson, 4; Hy 
Cordz, 4 ; E. H. Perry, 4 ; Theodor'Low, 4 ; Mrs. 
Barnhart, 3 ; D. H. Doom, 4 ; W. H. Badger, 4 ; 
Otto Ebeling, 4; Captain Lucy, 3; M. H. Eeed, 
4 ; J. W. Graham, 4 ; C. H. Page, 4 ; Louie Page, 



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7EHICLES BARRED FROM THE STREETS. 

Mayor A. P. Wooldridge has issued a procla- 
mation and the city council has passed a resolu- 
tion looking to the safety and comfort of the 
old foh'iers who are city's guests. The two docu- 
ments follow : 

PROCL.\MATION. 

"The John B. Hood Brigade association par- 
ades t-'morrow morning, 2rth inst, at 9:30 a. 
m. on Consrress Avenue from Fifth street to the 
capitol building. 

^ "For the protection and convenience of the 
old soldiers and others participating in this pa- 
rade, all vehicles of every character and descrip- 
tion are here directed to' keep off of Fifth street 
for one block to the east and for one block to tha 
west of Congress Avenue and off of Congress 
Avenue from Fifth street to the capitol, from 
9 :15 a. ra. until the procession passes. 

"The enforcement of this proclamation has 
been turned over to the citv marshal and his as- 
sistants. 

"A. P. WOOLDRIDGE, Mayor." 
October 26, 1910. 

RESOLUTION. 

" Eesolved by the City Council of the Citv of 
Austin : 

"That all the streets entering or passing 
through the state capitol grounds on the east 
Bide of the capitol building, may be closed to 
vehicles (other than those in the parade) from 
the hour of 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. of October 27, 
1910, during the ceremonies pertaining to the 
unveiling of the John B. Hood monument." 

SOLDIERS IN LINE AGAIN. 



Veterans of Sixties March with Vim of Youth in Mag- 
nificent Parade. School Children in Line. 

In one of the largest parades that the city of 
Austin has ever peen in her history, the survivors 
of the Hood's Texas Brigade were escorted up 
the avenue to the capitol grounds where the un- 
veiling ceremonies of the monument took place. 
Flags of all kinds fluttered in the breeze, par- 
ticularly those of the Confederacy and of the 



Lnited States, side by side in the morning air 
tyjifying a strong and united people. ' 

At the head of the procession were Chief 
Laughlin and Sheriff Matthews, representin<r 
tlie city and county constahularv, and the Austin 
Business League Band, under" the direction of 
Dr. H. E. Ba.xter, all fitted out in the armv uni- 
form in harmonv with the occasion. Followino- 
was Fire Chief George Wolter, mounted as one 
of the_ marshals of the day, the fire department 
iollowing I im in numerical order, with hook and 
ladder m the lead. All of the men of the com- 
panies were m their places in uniform. On Pro- 
tection Xo. 3 Judge John W. Hornsbv of Hous- 
ton rode at the especial invitation of the com- 
pany, whicli he 1-elped to organize years a^ro He 
declared yesterday that he appreciatecf very 
highly the honor done him bv his old fellow 
members. Hook and Ladder, 'Washino-ton No 
1, Colorado No. 2, Protection No. 3, E"ast Aus- 
tin Xo. 4, South Austin Nc .5. Xorth Austin 
Ao. 6, West Austin No. 7, Tenth Ward No. 8, 
was the order in which the companies marched 
up the street in the parade. 

In the automobiles were: Major George W. 
Littlefield, e.x-Governor J. D. Savers and"" Hon! 
John Henry Kirby, in the second ; tlie Citv 
Council included Mayor Wooldridsje. Council- 
men Bartholomew, Powell, Gracv and Hart in 
the third ; Governor T. M. Campbell and friends 
in the fourth ; and prominent committeemen in 
two or three others, followed bv about a dozen 
other cars containing friends of Hood's Brigade. 

The Harper Kirby Rifles under the command 
of Caitain John W. Lane, and Troop C. the 
cavalry organization, were followed bv the Con- 
federate soldiers, the surviving members of 
Hood's Texas Brigade, under command of their 
senior officer. The old soldiers were followed 
by their sons, many of wliom had come from a 
distance and brought their families with them. 
The public school children, 5,000 strong 
marched up the street in the desire to do honor 
to the old n-en who had so long and faithfully 
fought the battles of the old South throughout 
all tl-e strugeles and sufferings of the Army of 
Northern Virginia under General Robert E. 
Lee. The High School headed the procession 
with their flags flying and with the banners of 
the school flung out to the breeze. Bickler 
School bore the banner of the First Texas In- 
fantry at the head of its column. The deaf and 
dumb, 400 strong, in columns of twos, passed 
up the street. 

The parade was over a mile in length, as a 
large part of the column had reachedthe cap- 
itol grounds and taken up their positions about 
the time that the rear had marched out from 
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the biggest parade that the city has seen in 
years. For the first time in years the school 
children of Austin took part in celebrating the 
deeds of their fathers in a way that tended to 
impress the great facts upon them. The teach- 
ers marching alongside the columns composed 
of their classes, were headed by the principals of 
the schools, the larger schools taking their place> 
near the held of the columns. The deaf and 
dumb were in uniform in the parade. So well 
did they keep their positions in the line that 
Mayor Wooldrii^ge afterwards said : '"That cer- 
tainly shows the value of discijiline in a school." 
The old men of the brigade, about 200 of 
them now left, took their places in line as they 
had done hundreds of times before and obeyed 
the commands of their officer with all the vim 
of their younger days. The order loud and clear, 
"Column half left march," brought the desired 
change of direction as quickly and readily as 
the same command given by Captain John Lane 
brought the Harper Kirby Eifles into line. When 
the column was required to halt for a few mo- 
ments thev executed the "mark time" with the 
same spirit that they had displayed in the '60s 
when they were young men and some of them 
mere boys. 



Quite a large crowd was on the Avenue dur- 
ing the parade and followed the procession to 
the capitol grounds for the ceremonies when 
they took place. The street corners were crowd- 
ed in s[ ite of the efficient work done by the 
police department in keeping the carriages off 
of the street from 9:15 o'clock until after the 
procession had passed. As a consequence of the 
order of the council and the proclamation of the 
Mayor, the streets were kept free from any 
wagon or vehicle of any kind and no accident 
happened. 

As foon as the procession had reached the cap- 
itol the windows of the building became alive 
with boys, who fat out on the wide granite ledge 
running around the building in order to see and 
hear what was going on. The Harper Kirby 
Eifles performed efficient service there by chas- 
ing these boys back into the building and pre- 
venting a serious accident or death. 

General Henry Hutchings, Fire Chief George 
Wolters, Colonel E. M. Phelps and Judge 
Charles Eogan were in charge of the parade. 

At the capitol grounds a panoramic picture 
was taken of the crowd. 



STATUTE PRESENTED TO THE STATE. 



MONUMENT TO HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE UNVEILED AT AUSTIN. 



(Houston Post Special.) 

AUSTIN, Texas. October 27.— The climax of 
the thirty-ninth annual reunion of Hood's Tex- 
as Brigade was reached today when the drapery 
concealing the statue surmounting the monu- 
ment erected in honor of the dead of the brigade 
was drawn aside by IMiss Lollie Wood of San 
Antonio, sponsor. The exercises of unveiling 
and dedication were witnessed by a sathering 
estimated at 10,000 persons. When the Texas 
flag which draped the sculptured figure was 
drawn aside the shouts of the throne- mingled 
with the strains of "Maryland, ^ly Maryland." 
Before drawing the cords which were to re- 
lea-^e the drapery. Miss Wood said: 

"In memory, honor and undying love to the 
gallant dead of Hood's Texas Brigade, as well 
as for those of the Eighteenth Georgia, Hamp- 
ton's Legion and the Third Arkansas, and for 
those of the Fourth Texas which at Gaines' Mill 
was the first to )icnetrate the enemy's lines and 
pluck victory from the jaws of defeat, of the 
Fifth Texas which at Second Manassas, after 
annihilating thel Fifth New York Zouaves, 



passed on until victory was won, and the First 
Texas which at Sharpsburg held the cornfield 
against the Federal troops until it had lost 82 
per cent of its men, it is my proud privilege to 
unveil this monument." 

Assisting Miss Wood were her maids of honor, 
who stood near her. Miss Julia Branard, !Miss 
Sarah Maude Cox, Miss Bowers Chilton, Miss 
Bessie Eilers. Miss Annie Gaston, Miss Annie 
Giles, Miss Edith Goldstein, Miss Fannie Goree, 
Miss May Harding, Miss Mamie Keith, Miss 
Christine Littlefield. ^Miss Jennie Nagle, Miss 
Annie Price, Miss Hester Eobertson, Miss Mag- 
gie Shepherd, Miss Ellerbee Wood and Miss 
Doris Young. 

INVOCATION. 

Eev. J. W. Stevens of Houston Heights, Chap- 
lain of Hood's Texas Brigade Association and 
member of Company K. Fifth Texas Eegiment, 
invoked a Divine blessing, as follows: 

".\lmighty God, Thou great Creator of all 
things and ruler of all the ciirth, the giver of 
all good ; we give thanks to Thee this day for 
Thy goodness and mercy to us, Thy creatures, 



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33 



that so many of us are permitted to meet to- 
gether in our annual reunion, as a surviving 
remnant of a once invincible command to do 
battle for the right; once more to look into each 
other's faces, to grasp each other's hands, as the 
survivors of a cause so dear to the heart of 
every one through whose veins courses the 
warmest blood of a true Confederate soldier. 
We thank Thee, our Father, that in the days of 
our young and buoyant manhood we went forth 
to do our duty, as true patriots in a cause for 
which we do not have to apologize ; that we be- 
longed to an army that did not carry a torch, 
nor ever insulted a woman. But planting our 
feet firmlv upon the eternal principles of the 
constitution of our fathers, and conscious of the 
righteousness' of our cause, we willinglv pre- 
sented ourselves, "a living sacrifice," upon our 
country's altar, and freely poured out our 
best blood in defense of our homes, against the 
• onslaughts of an insolent, invading host, whose 
battle cry was devastation and hatred, and 
whose line of march was marked by the smoke 
of devastated homes and burned towns and 
cities. 

"And as we assemble here today to do honor 
to our deceased comrades, who gallantly poured 
out their life's blood, as a willing libation to the 
cause they so loved, in the dedication of this 
beautiful tribute to their memory and patriot- 
ism, we would invoke Thy smiles and benedic- 
tion upon the work of our hands, this dav con- 
summated, as we unveil this monument to the 
gaze of the world, may prove an inspiraton to 
our children and to all future generations to 
emulate the bravery and devotion to duty of 
Hood's Brisade of Confederate Soldiers. The 
ravages of time will crumble into dust this beau- 
tiful shaft, but we thank God that the brave 
deeds of Hood's noble band of men is so indel- 
ibly engraved on the pages of history, that 
while time lasts and history is read, brave men 
and patriots will reverence her noble record. 

"And now, gracious Father, as one by one of 
us who still remain shall pass away from the 
toils and cares of life, may a band of holy angels 
as a guard of honor attend us across the river, 
where under the shade of the trees we will Join 
Lee, Jackson, Hood and the innumerable hosts 
of our comrades of all ranks, who have gone on 
before, there to bask in the sunlight of His 
countenance forever, who doeth all things well. 

"These things we ask in the name of Christ. 
Amen." 

The first speech of the day was delivered by 
General William E. Hamby oif Austin, president 
of the brigade. General W. R. Hamby spoke 
as follows : 



GENERAL HAMBY S ADDRESS. 

Ladies, Comrades and Countrymen: 

In an address to the soldiers of the Texas Bri- 
gade soon after they reached Virginia, in 18G1, 
President Davis sjid : "The troops of other states 
have their reputation to gain; the sons of the 
Alamo have theirs to maintain." Nearly four 
years later, after the Texas brigade had lost 
more than tliree-fourths of their total enroll- 
ment, in killed and wounded, and when the 
ranks of all commands had been greatly depleted 
by the casualties of the war, and when many 
brigades were not as large as a regiment, and 
when regiments were not as large as a company, 
an order was issued by the Confederate war de- 
partment for the consolidation of small brig- 
ades and regiments into more compact and ef- 
fective organizations. At that time the Texas 
brigade was composed of the First, Fourth and 
Fifth Texas and the Third Arkansas. They 
were the only troops from states west of the 
Mississippi river in the Virginia army, and had 
less than 500 men able for duty, but proud of the 
record thev had made, they sent Major Martin 
of the Fourth Texas, "Old Howdy,"' of blessed 
memory, to see the president and protest against 
being consolidated with troops from other states 
which would cause the Texas brigade to lose its 
identity. After hearing the appeal of Major 
Martin and recalling the words of General Lee 
at the recent battle of Darbytown that "the Tex- 
as brigade is always ready," when informed by 
staff officer it was the only command in line 
and ready for the assault he had ordered, Mr. 
Davis then said : "Go back to your command, 
Major Martin, and tell your comrades as long 
as there is a man to carry their battle flag the 
Texas brigade shall retain its organization." 

Some years after the war Hon. Jno. H. Rea- 
gan, jurist, statesman and patriot, with a long 
and honorable record in the service of the repub- 
lic of Texas, in the Federal congress before the 
war, postmaster general and secretary of the 
treasury of the Confederacy during the war, 
and United States Senator after the war, 
said: "I would rather have been able to sav that 
I had been a worthy member of Hood's Texas 
Bri trade than to have enjoyed all the honors 
which have been conferred upon me. I doubt 
if there has ever been a brigade or other mili- 
tary organization in the history of the war that 
equaled it in the heroic valor and self-siicrific- 
ing conduct of its members and the brilliancy 
of its services." 

TRIBUTE PAID BY LEE. 

In a personal letter to myself from General 
Stephen D. Lee, written only a few weeks be- 
fore his lamentable death, he said : '^t was my 



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fortune to hear the volleys of lloncVs Texas 
brigade, one of the first volleys of the war, 
which is still ringing in my ears. I saw them 
pierce the Ferleral line at Gaines' Mill. I saw 
•their magnificent charge at Second j\Ianassas, 
and I witnessed tlie glory the brigade won at 
Sharpsbnrg. I saw them sweep the enemy from 
their front. I s^w them almost annihilated, and 
even then I saw them contribute the greater part 
to the repulse of Hooper's corps, then of Mans- 
field's corps of the Union army. I saw tliem 
hold off Sumner's corps until reinforcements 
came. I saw them pursue the enemy. I saw 
them broken, shattered and falling liack before 
overwhelming numbers; the few who were left 
giving the rebel yell with more spirit than the 
hurrahs of the Union troops advancing upon 
them." 

When a regiment or a brigade claims to havo 
lost heavily in battle you ask for the list of kill- 
ed and wounded ; judged by this standard no 
brigade on American soil ever achieved greater 
distinction or wrote its name higher upon the 
scroll of fame, and it would be a reproach to 
the State that sent them forth to battle and 
whose name thev bear if no monument had 
been erected to their gallant dead and in honor 
of the proud record made by Hood's Texas 
Brigade. 

All the civilized nations of the world have 
their monuments and their memorials to perpet- 
uate in loving memory the patriotic service of 
their 1 eroes and their statesmen. Monuments 
are milestones that mark our civilization and 
our patriotism ; they awaken old reflections and 
dormant sympathies and keep alive the life-giv- 
ing principles of freedom ; they tell of the con- 
secrated love of a grateful people to their hon- 
ored dead ; the lessons they teach are elevating 
and ennobling; they inspire the people with 
reverence and animate them with love and de- 
votion to their country ; they give stability to 
national pride as the surest mertns of perpetuat- 
ing the remembrance of the glorious achieve- 
ments of their sons; they arouse the patriotism 
and stimulate the pride and teach the people to 
look to their own country for real glory. A 
land without monuments is a land without grat- 
itude ; a land without gratitude is a land with- 
out patriotism ; a land without patriotism is a 
land without liberty. Our country may be en- 
circled with fortresses and bristling with the 
cannon and bayonets of a standing army, but 
our real safety depends upon the patriotism and 
the martial spirit and valor of our people. 

Comrades: God has blessed us with life and 
health and strength to see this blessed day when 
we shall dedicate this monument whirli shall 
tell of men of deeds, not words ; men whose ev- 



ery heart throb was for country ; men whose ac- 
tions and motives were consecrated by the high- 
est and noblest inspirations that can animate 
the human heart. It will tell to coming gen- 
erations how our comrades fought and how they 
died. It will tell how they served a nation 
that was born in a flame of glory ; that was 
baptized in the blood and tears of its people 
and that died amidst their anguish and their 
sorrow. 

We are not here to revive war memories, but 
to shed tears of love and tenderness to our dead 
comrades and we honor ourselves when we pre- 
serve and perpetuate their memory. Because we 
are Southern men ; because we honor and rev- 
erence the memory of our dead comrades we are 
none the less Americans and should danger 
threaten our country from any source whatever 
the sons of the South would be the first at the 
sacrifice and foremost in every conflict. 

This monument was erected by comrades and 
friends to tell to coming generations the imper- 
islmble fame and glory of Hood's Texas Brig- 
and what it dared to do for duty. Many of our 
comrades sleep in unknown and unmarked 
graves ; we can not cover tliem with flowers, nor 
can we shed our tears u]ion them, but we can 
dedicate this monument in loving memory of 
them and consecrate it as a memorial to Amer- 
ican valor, American patriotism for our com- 
rades who died to preserve and perpetuate the 
principles upon which the American Union was 
formed. 

ALL PREJUDICE FORGOTTEN. 

In dedicating this monument let us hope that 
whatever passions and prejudices that once may 
have animated us will be forever buried and that 
our motives and our actions may be character- 
ized by the highest, the noblest and the purest 
inspirations. In the language of Robert E. 
Lee, the world's greatest soldier, it will tell the 
men of the Texas brigade fought grandly and 
nobly ; that no brigade did nobler service or 
gained more honor for their state. Whether it 
was in the countless skirmishes in wdiich they 
were engaged or in the storm and tempest of 
battle at Gaines' Mill, at Malvern Hill, at Ma- 
nassas, at Boonsboro Gap, at Shaipsburg, at 
Fredericksburg, at Gettysburg, at Chickamauga, 
at Petersburg, at New Market Heights, at Fort 
Gilmer, at Darbytnwn ; or whether as the ad- 
vance guard of a victorious army or as the rear 
guard of the overwheliued but undismayed frag- 
ments of the Confederacy, wherever duty 
called, wherever the flag of the Confederacy 
waved, there was Hood's Texas Brigade until 
that flag was forever furled upon the banks 
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army was almost within the suburbs of 
Eidimond did the sublime courage of the 
ragged, barefooted and starving men of the 
Texas brigade sl.ine forth in such heroic achieve, 
ments. With a scant supply of meat and half 
rations of cornmeal, and with flour a luxury 
almost unknown ; by day and by night, either 
in the assault or in the trenches ; always on duty, 
the entire brigade only a skirmish line, yet each 
day as the line grew thinner and hungrier their 
dauntless courage challenged the respect of their 
enemies and the admiration of the world as they 
trod the paths of duty and of glory in their 
march to the srave of the Xation they had 
served so faithfully and so bravely. 

All that was mortal of the Southern Confed- 
eracy was buried more than forty-five years ago. 
but the moral power and grandeur of the South- 
em soldier is immortal. 

TO MEMORY OF HEROES. 

Let me appeal to you, sons and daughters of 
Texas, children of the Confederacy, to cherish 
the memory and emulate the virtues of those 
men in whose honor this monument has been 
erected ; in the race for success in life ; in the 
eager rush for commercialism, do not forget the 
great principles for which the South fought 
and to which your fathers bravely and faith- 
fully consecrated the hopes and aspirations of 
their young manhood. 

In behalf of our comrades, the living and the 
dead, we want to extend to all of our patriotic 
friends our most grateful appreciation for their 
generous assistance, but especially do we thank 
Major Georo-e W. Littlefield of Austin, and 
Hon. John H. Kirby of Houston, the patriotic 
ladies of the Texas division of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy. It gives me 
pleasure to say that President Chilton of the 
Monument Committee was its chief promoter 
and his whole heart has been in the work, and I 
congratulate him and the Monument Commit- 
tee upon the completion of the labor of love and 
with all my comrades rejoice in what we will 
now unveil, a monument to which all Texans 
can point with pride. 

Standing at rest this typical soldier of the 
Texas brigade accepted the results of the war in 
the utmost good faith ; while he is at peace with 
God and man yet he stands ready for any duty 
to which his country may call him. In the 
gleam of the morning and the gloam of the 
evening forever will stand the sentinel in bronze 
typical of comrades who have gone into their 
bivouac, for the bugle call of the Great Com- 
mander that shall summon them to God's eter- 
nal dress parade. 

Immediately following the conclusion of 
General Hamby's address the drapery fell and 



Hood's Texas Brigade monument stood un- 
veiled to the gaze of thousands. 

General Hamby again spoke as follows : 

"With uncovered heads, standing in the pres- 
ence of this stainless monument to the memory 
of the men of Hood's Texas Brigade, who fought 
for the principles upon which our Government 
was founded and who sacrificed their lives in 
heroic devotion to those sacred rights, we appeal 
to the truth of history and to the intelligence 
of the civilized world for the vindication of the 
actions and motives of the people of the South. 
The spirits of our dead comrades rise like the 
sun in his noontide majesty and tell us they did 
not die for a 'lost cause.' 

"May God bless and sanctify this monument 
which has been erected in honor of our dead 
comrades. May the archangel who stands at 
the right hand of the Almighty Father bless 
it and with all the army of the heavenly host 
sing an anthem for the honor and glory of 
Hood's Texas Brigade." 

In presenting monument of Hood's Texas 
Brigade to State during dedication and unveil- 
ing ceremonies at Austin, Oct. 27th, Hon. John 
H. Kirby, as orator, was introduced by Capt. 
F. B. Chilton, President of Monument Commit- 
tee, who was called for, and, taking the stand, 
spoke as follows: 

"Mr. President of Hood's Texas Brigade As- 
sociation, Ladies and Gentlemen, United Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy, and every human be- 
ing, whether he wore the gray or the blue, who 
has this day honored us with their pre'^ence, in 
response to dedication of yon beautiful monu- 
ment to our dead comrades, in behalf of sur- 
vivors of Hood's Texas Brigade I greet you 
and thank you for your presence on this event- 
ful occasion. In justice to myself, I will state 
that it was only just now that I was apprised 
that I had anything to do with the program 
or was expected to perform any part therein, 
and I appear before you without thought or 
preparation as to what I shall say. However, 
the duty which has been assigned me is an easy 
one — that of introducing a distinguished and 
honorable native son of Texas, who will speak in 
behalf of Hood's Texas Brigade in presenting 
our beautiful monument to the State. 

"The task is so easy that were I simply to an- 
nounce him bv speaking his name, you would all 
be familiar with and recognize the man. There- 
fore, my introductory remarks shall be few and 
principally directed to a duty that is necessary 
to the occasion, that of turning over yon mon- 
ument to Hood's Texas Brigade Association in 
order that through their accredited representa- 
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over to the great State of Texas, after wliich I 
will hold a few moments of sweet communioD 
with my comrades. 

"Gentlrmen of IMonument Committee of 
Hood's Texas Brigade, tlie time has come when 
my official relations with you ceases, since the 
result of your labor stands in magnificent evi- 
dence before us. 

"Governor Thos. M. Campbell, Governor of 
Texas, hns been an appreciated and indefatiga- 
ble worker and has responded willingly to every 
call that has been made upon him. His contri- 
bution was a liberal one and his purpose 
earnest. 

''Senator John G. Willacy not only made a 
splendid contribution, but was so liberal as to 
offer his time in visiting and spenking at all the 
principal towns of Texas, at his own expense, to 
raise money for the monument. 

"Hon. John H. Kirby and Maj. Geo. W. Lit- 
tlefield, having had wonderful success with 
their personal affairs, brought sure success to 
monument affairs as soon as they touched them. 
They hit hod themselves to the wheels of our 
hopes and pushed them forward to rapid frui- 
tion. Tlicse four members of committee are 
honorary members of Hood's Texas Brigade and 
we are proud of them as our comrades. 

"Capt. W. H. Gaston, the boy Captain of 
Comrany H, First Texas, so elected by the voice 
of his bearded comrades, who knew him well, 
and who led them in many a desperate charge 
and thereby proved the wisdom of their choice, 
has been a member of the committee since its 
first organization. He was its first Treasurer 
and so continued until active orerations were 
removed to Austin, when Gen. W. I?. Hamljy 
was made Treasurer. 

"Capt. W. T. Hill, that grand old Roman of 
Company D, Fifth Texas, who commanded his 
company on .=o many l)loody fields and who dur- 
ing the whole war lost liut few days from diitv 
except when wounded, who was in command of 
the Fifth Texas Regiment at Appomattox, and 
who has not only given largely of liis means, b'.^f 
who has been wonderfully successful in his col- 
lections, is a most cherished member of the com- 
mittee. 

"T>Tst, but not least, comes Gen. W. R. Ham- 
by, Treasurer of the Committee, upon whom has 
devolved very heavy labor jmd who ha.s never 
been found wantinjr in a single instance. When 
my long illness made it necessary, he performed 
for me every duty with perfect fidelity to our 
sacred trust. To have been wit'Muit Gen. ITiiu- 
bv would be to have been without my right 
arm. 

"Sreak'n? to you collectively a? members of 
the committee now to be discharged from dutie.-< 
that have so long bound us together, I wish to 



express to you that my glory in the success we 
have attained is heightened by my appreciation 
of my pleasant official connection with you. I 
planted, you watered and the good Lord gave 
the increase. 

"As down life's vale I wander, and as upon 
our great monument success I ponder, no 
greener leaf will be found or brighter page 
turned in memory's tablets than that whereon 
is inscribed my remembrance of Monument 
Committee of Hood's Texas Brigade, to whom 
I now bid a fond farewell. 

"It is also my duty as well as pleasure to ex- 
press the obligation Hood's Texas Brigade is un- 
der to the McNeel Marble Company of Marietta, 
Georgia. To them we owe a large debt of grat- 
itude. When I saw poor prospects ahead and 
hardly knew how to proceed, they came nobly 
to my aid. Native sons of Texas, their hearts 
were with us and as adopted sons of Georgia — 
that gave us that gallant Eighteenth Georgia 
Regiment — they were anxious to become identi- 
fied with our monument. They made me a 
splendid offer to erect it and stipulated that in 
case their offer was accepted that they would 
contribute $5,000.00 of the amount to the monu- 
ment fund. Well did they carry out their con- 
tract. They gave us a magnificent arranite mon- 
ument in due time and it was no fault of theirs 
that statue was defective. They cheerfully stood 
all cost of procuring another, and the delay in 
our original iinveiling was a sore disappoint- 
ment to them. To McNeel Marble Company I 
extend the lasting remembrance of this Associa- 
tion of survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade. 

"My comrades, it is a solemn occas'on that 
has brought us together, and while it is easy to 
recognize its solemnity, it may not be so possi- 
ble for me to rise to its mental requirements. 
Yon lofty statue that stands as a mute wit- 
ness to the proceedings of this hour, speaks to 
you and me of another day in the dim and dis- 
tant past and we recognize that we have met 
to bury on their native and adopted soil nearly 
4,000 heroes of Hood's Te.xas Brigade. Did I 
say to bury them ? If so, we must retrospect and 
in doing so roll back the stone from the charnel 
house of memory and bring the scenes of other 
days before us. 

"One-half a century has passed since inception 
of the war. Fifty years ago next week Abraham 
Lincoln was elected President of the United 
States, and our fathers — not we — knew what 
would happen, and we as boys and young men 
stood ready to fill the breach that only mis- 
guided fanaticism could ever have created. We 
today must hear the fife and drum, must feel 
the deep-seated, intense commotion of that pe- 
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touch of vanished hands and receive the last kiss 
of father, mother, brother, sister, wife, sweet- 
heart and friend; and amid it all we must see 
three gallant regiirents of young Texans in mar- 
tial array and must recognize them as we knew 
them then. Later we must hear the cannon roar 
above the din of terrible battle and amid hur- 
tling bullets and crashing shells must see our 
comrades falling, falling, falling, and strewing 
the earth on many a hard contested field ; then 
in sadness must we remember the long, shnllow 
ditches and the endless rows of the dead, where 
scant earth hardly hid from view the bodies of 
the noblest, best and bravest this world ever pro- 
duced. 

"There in all the consciousness of duty per- 
formed lay the torn bodies of grey-haired sires 
who for a truth that had been taught them from 
infancy up and which they fully believed, had 
shouldered their guns and gone out in its de- 
fense and who in cold death seemed to be alert 
for the cry of victory, as thev lay willingr s'lcri- 
fices upon their country's altar. Beside them 
we see the form of boys who in their teen? be- 
longed best at their mother's knee, and whose 
baby mouths seemed fitted only for a mother's 
kiss, yet their cold hands are clenched with that 
same determination that marked the men in 
whom they believed and together they had gone 
to the throne of God. We left our comrades 
there with naught to mark their glorified rest- 
ing place except the soil of the Old Dominion 
State that they consecrated with their blood and 
lives. 

"But, my surviving comrades, it matters not 
where their bodies lie, whether by bloody h-'U- 
side, plain or river. Their record is written 
on fame's proud sky, and their deeds of valor 
shall live forever. 

"Today we have met to dedicate j'on grand 
monument erected on Texas soil, by comrades 
and friends, to their memory. Therefore, it is 
that we are this day resurrecting them in mem- 
ory and embalming their bodies in the land they 
loved so well. 

"Stand, thou silent sentinel, and guard their 
noble dust while countless age? roll. Be thou 
the chronicler of their glorious deeds that gener- 
ations yet unborn mav read ; and may thy sculp- 
tured sides be an inspiration through centuries 
to young men wherein they may leirn a never- 
dying truth ; that he who gives his life a willing 
sacrifice for principle, dies not in vain. 

"It is no reflection on the few living comrades 
that So long a period has passed without proper 
recognition of the deeds of the dead of Hood's 
Texas Brigade, as even now it would have been 
a sheer impossibility for the few survivors to 
have erected yon beautiful monument without 



the aid of many patriotic and generous friends, 
to each and every one of whom the gratitude of 
survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade goes out in 
no uncertain measure. It matters not whether 
your contribution was in thousands or in dol- 
lars, our gratitude ij the same, because we know 
you gave in love for the cause we cherish and the 
object so near to all our hearts. There is one 
who made a princely donation and in such a 
manner as to be of incalculable benefit to us, 
and ours is more than a passing affection for 
him, not only on account of his lii)eral contri- 
bution, but because he was such a grand Con- 
federate soldier. He is an honorary member 
of Hood's Texas Brigade and every survivor of 
Hood's Texas Brigade will ever cherish fondly 
the name of that battle-scarred veteran of 
Terry's Texas Bangers, Major George W. Lit- 
tlefield of Austin. 

"Notably among those who nobly rallied to 
our help in the erection of our monument to 
our gallant dead and who with his meins made 
it possible for us to succeed is one dear alike to 
all Texas. A native born son, he has been true 
to every impulse and worthy call of his beloved 
Texas. Not born to affluence, his every upward 
step has been like the eagle's, "onward and up- 
ward and true to the line," every grade marked 
by merit and every act gauged with honor. Few 
others have had such success in life as he, and 
such native sons who have gone high in their 
respective callings have left Texas for greater 
fields of action, iiut this son has planted his 
love and faith in grand old Texas and her every 
call and interest has been the mainspring of his 
upward march until today he has woven his life 
inseparably with the heart-strings of her people. 
Particularly to the surviving members of 
Hood's Texas Brigade ha? he become a friend 
and true comrade and it is not his money alone 
which so ably helped to rear yon stately shaft 
in memory of their dead comrades that makes 
him dear to them, but it is the genuine man- 
hood of the man who in their hour of need 
came so tenderlv, lovingly and generously to 
their aid and so long as there lives a single sur- 
vivor of Hood's Texas Brigade, their love and 
gratitude will flow in an undying stream for 
Comrade John H. Kirby. 

"Hnder all circumstances, my comrades, it is 
most fittinof that the Hon. John H. Kirby 
should speak to us and present our monument 
to the State of Texas and to this audience. I 
now introduce him." 

At the conclusion of Captain Chilton's 
speech there were shouts of "Hurrah for Kirby" 
by the old soldiers. 

The crowd cheered and applauded Mr. Kirby 
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some particularly noble sentiment touched a 
sympathetic chord in the old soldiers and the 
crowd around. He was the orator of the day 
and his remarks were enthusiastically received 
by 10,000 people. 

"THE FLOWER OF TEXAS." 



Hon. John Henry Kirby Thus Describes the Members 
of Hood's Texas Brigade. 

"This is truly an hour of solemn yet glorious 
significance to every loyal son and daughter of 
imperial Texas. In the erection of yonder mon- 
ument the survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade 
have paid a fitting tribute to more than four 
thousand of their hero comrades who now rest 
with their illustrious commanders on the other 
shore. They have also given to the prerent and 
future generations a permanent testimonial of 
their pride in the achievements in war and in 
peace of those chivalrous sons of Dixie, living 
and dead, who rendered this brigade immortal. 

"No honor ever came to me or ever can of 
which I could be more proud than that con- 
ferred by these immortals when they elected me 
a comrade among them. But four years old 
when that great war closed, I can have only 
childish memories of the return from scenes of 
carnage of the battered and tattered, footsore 
and emaciated, but unwhipped men in gray to 
the neglected farms of our neighborhood. 
Widows and orphans mourned the loss of hus- 
band and father, fathers and mothers wept over 
the death of favorite sons, and beautiful girls 
treasured tearfully blood-stained tokens and 
pathetic notes from hero-lovers dying upon the 
field. Tales of heroic courage and unparalleled 
carnage, where sons of Dixie met duty and 
death with a fortitude and devotion that chal- 
lenged the admiration of the world, were ten- 
derly told, and in the broken circle around fam- 
ily hearthstones Southern hearts were re-ded- 
icated to Liberty and to local self-governmenr 
and to the restoration of the fallen fortunes of 
Dixie. Under this environment I grew to man- 
hood and is it any wonder that my heart is 
aflame with the most profound gratitude to 
these patriot soldiers for the honor of being 
their comrade, for the honor of membership on 
this committee and for the honor of being chos- 
en to present this monument to the great heart 
of the Texas people. 

"My comrades, I shall not enter into any 
lengthy discussion of the causes which culmi- 
nated in this terrible war nor undertake any his- 
tory of its battles. The South has no apology 
to offer for her part in the momentous struggle 
nor has the North. The South has her Lee and 
the North her Grant, and you could no more 



rob the nation of the glory of these than you 
could rob the church of the Holy Nazarene. The 
hero in gray followed where duty lay; the l;i;r) 
in blue did the same. The South stood for the 
inalienable rights of sovereign States under the 
Constitution. She believed the compact be- 
tween the States had been broken by the States 
of the North and was no longer binding upon 
any of the sovereign parties to it. She remem- 
lered that when our forefathers had destroyed 
British control in the colonies and achieved 
their independence it was to each colony as a 
separate sovereignty. Yirgina and Georgia and 
the Carolinas as well as Massachusetts and the 
other colonies each received from King George 
its separate recognition — its separate patent of 
nobility — and each took its place anions the in- 
dependent sovereignties of the earth. Then "in 
order to form a more perfect union"' — one based 
upon the separate independence and sovereignty 
of the contracting parties instead of the existing 
federation of insurgent colonies, they each ap- 
pointed their plenipotentiaries, their delegates 
to a general convention where a new compact, 
the present Constitution, was formulated. This 
Constitution with amendments was ratified by 
each of the States separately and became a con- 
tract between them as separate and independent 
entities for their mutual protection and ad- 
vancement. Eemembering all this and believing 
this contract had been violated by States of the 
North and its binding force gravely assailed by 
the National Government itself, and, under the 
rule of law as old as civilization that a contract 
ceases to be binding on one party when the other 
party has breached it, the South withdrew from 
the Union and set up a new government 'deriv- 
ing its just powers from the consent of the gov- 
erned.' 

"The North denied any infraction of the Con- 
stitution, asserted its binding force upon all of 
the States and threw its armies into the field to 
preserve the LTnion. 

"The Southerner fought for his home, for 
liberty, for Dixie. 

"Today we stand reunited under the Constitu- 
tion, with one flag, one nationality, one des- 
tiny, but with the separate supremacy of the 
States in the exercise of all their reserved rights, 
and with one purpose — to maintain liberty and 
honest government eternally in this 'land of 
the free and home of the brave.' 

"There will never be any escape from the con- 
clusion that the men of the South fousht for 
principle and offered their lives as a willing sac- 
rifice to the maintenance of constitutional lib- 
erty exactly as handed down by the patriot 
fathers. As a soldier, the fame of the Confed- 
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monument is needed to perpetuate it save that 
inscribed indelibly upon the hearts of their 
countrymen. Historically considered, there is 
no soldier of any age or country or clime with 
whom he may be fairly compared. His ])osition 
is unique and glorious. He finds his rank with 
the immortals of all history who fought for 
principle, for liberty, for home and country, 
for family and fireside, for honor and high 
purpose. No history of America, aye, no 
history of human valor can find ac- 
ceptance among enlightened men which 
shall fail to render to the Confederate 
soldier the high praise his deeds have won. in 
all the ages to come, in history, song and story. 
Lee, Jackson, Hood, Johnston and Stuart and 
other illustrious commanders of the Southern 
army and the citizen-soldiers whose dash and 
daring have no parallel in all the history of thy 
world, will be recorded in words of praise. No 
page in all these annals will be more inspirin.-^ 
than those which record the purposes, tlie vir- 
tues and the achievements of Hood's Texas 
Brigade. 

"One of the most learned of Texas jurists, 
writing of this patriotic band, has said : 

" 'They were the pick and flower of the young 
men of Texas. They with ready ear heard their 
mother's call to her sons to defend her against 
an invading foe, and with gleaming swords and 
lance at rest and visor down' they flung them- 
selves with impetuous ardor against the serried 
ranks of their country's foes, and with laugh 
and jest and song 'trod the road to death as to 
a festival.' 

" 'They were the knightliest, gamest, freest, 
proudest cavaliers that ever flashed a falchion 
or faced a foe. In their veins ran the blood of 
many generations of gentlemen and soldiers. 

" 'They bowed the knee to none but God, rec- 
ognized no superiors on earth, took orders from 
no king, were the tenants of no landlord, but 
were lords of their own homes and holdings and 
formed a part of an army which, taken as a 
whole, never was and never will be matched 
upon the earth. Their record should thrill and 
stir those who yet live and all generations yet 
to come will learn how grand were these men 
who offered their lives upon the shrine of duty 
and served and suffered and bled and died that 
constitutional liberty might live.' 

"How true ! How true ! And as I stand here 
in the presence of the survivors of these great 
Southerners my heart swells with a just pride in 
their achievements and with gratitude to God 
that I was born at a time when my life might 
be enriched and my destiny ennobled by their 
personal influence and example. Before and 
since that cruel war they have been leaders in 



everything that makes for the progress and pros- 
perity of our country, for the highest ideals in 
manhood and the loftiest purposes in citizen- 
ship. It will not be many decades until the la.?t 
of them will have heard the order to bivouac 
with their immortal commanders and comrades 
upon the otlier shore, but their influence for 
good will be reflected in every precinct in Dixie 
as long as civilization endures. 

"And in the ages to come as the golden glint 
of the opening morn, or the gorgeous splendor 
of high-noon, or the solemn twilight of the 
Summer's eve, or the soft touch of the silvery 
moon rest upon this beautiful monument, so 
will the influence of the lives and example of 
these knightly men rest upon the hearts of the 
living sons and daughters of this great common- 
wealth. 

And in the years to come, when the youth 
of our land gaze upon this monument and in- 
quire who these great men were and what they 
did, the answer will come back instantly : 'They 
were among the great and true men of the 
South and though they were but one small 
brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, un- 
der the leadership of Lee and Jackson and 
Hood, they won the favor and applause of the 
whole world by their courage and daring. A 
grateful people erected this monument in their 
memorv and the heritage of liberty which you 
enjoy today is consecrated in their blood. They 
fought and perished upon a hundred battle- 
fields that liberty might live. The survivors re- 
built our homes, restored our firesides, re-estab- 
lished order and peace among us and led us in 
all the arts of civilization. They with Lee and 
Jackson and all the immortals are looking over 
the battlements of heaven with silent messages 
of encouragement to us and their sacrifices in 
war and greatness in peace are an inspiration 
and a hope to all liberty-loving Americans.' 

"Proudly, sir, on behalf of the survivors of this 
illustrious brigade, I tender to you and through 
you to the great people of Texas this monu- 
ment to the memory of the noble and patriotic 
heroes, living and dead, whose names adorn the 
roll of this glorious band. Monuments, sir, have 
a significance beyond words to describe, but this 
shaft bears a relation to the Confederacy and its 
leaders which no other monument does. Both 
it and the command it commemorates are a link 
that associates Texas forever with the Confed- 
eracy and its greatest Captains. It is erected 
by voluntary contributions from Confederate 
soldiers and the sons and daughters of Confed- 
erate soldiers. It svmbolizes the Texan's love 
of his country and of constitutional liberty and 
for those whose dauntless courage maintained 
it. It typifies our affection for our great leader. 



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the immortal Lee. Often has he looked into 
the eyes of Hood's Texas Brigade; he has rid- 
den with them and in his sorest trials depended 
Tipon tb.eni. Thov never failed him. At Gaines' 
Mill when the day was darkest and defeat 
seemed tertain, he waited and listened anxiously 
for the guns of Jackson in the rear of I\IcClel- 
lan's Army, and when the heart was sick from 
hope so long deferred and when Richmoml 
seemed all but lost, the thunder of Jackson'i- 
guns were heard and when courier after courier 
flashed the news, "The Texans are charging," 
he knew the day was won. And, again, at the 
Wilderness General Lee placed himself at the 
head of this brigade, believing these knightly 
and valiant and invincible soldiers to be the 
only hope of success. No monument commemo- 
rates events of greater tragic interest under the 
very eye of the matchless Lee than does this one 
we have erected. 

"Through you, sir, we commit this monument 
into the keeping of the people of this incom- 
parable State in memory of the grandest body of 
citizen-soldiers that ever enriched the history 
or immortalized the manhood of any country on 
earth." 

Wlien Hon. John H. Kirby had concluded 
his masterful address and received the plaudits 
of the survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade, to- 
gether with eloquent approbation from the 
mighty throng. Governor T. M. Campbell was 
introduced by General W. R. Hamby. 

ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR CAMPBELL. 

Governor Campbell was warmly cheered when 
introduced, and in accepting the monument on 
behalf of the State, he said: 

"There can be no greater tribute to heroism 
and valor, no greater reverence for a sacred 
principle than the presence of this great audi- 
ence here to do honor to the men of Hood's 
Texas Brigade. Contributing more than its full 
share of its human lives, this brigade has glo- 
riously maintained the prestige of the American 
arms. 

".\t sight of that monument the mind nat- 
urally goes liack to the fathers of Texas and 
their magnificent achievements in the wilder- 
nesses of Texas. The men that formed the 
Hood's Texas Brigade and fought the battles of 
the Civil War were the sons of the men who 
had come here and from a wilderness had made 
an empire, Texas, (.\pplause.) In more than 
twelve of the great battles of the war and iii 
over fifty lesser engagements they were but twice 
driven from the face of even a superior enemy 
and were found wherever the flag of the Con- 
federacy was' flying, in the thickest of the fight. 

"It was a great war, great because of the 



great soldiery engaged in its battles, great be- 
cause of the great principles for which they 
fought and died. The history of those battles, 
those marches, those sieges with all their suffer- 
ings, is in no sense a history of a 'lost cause.' If 
the great principles for which the Southern sol- 
diery fought on all of the Southern battlefields 
are not living principles, if the principles are 
not still alive and vitally active in the United 
States of today, then would the republic have 
crumbled to dust long ago and the monument 
which we are this day unveiling would be in 
vain. It is an everlasting union of the Amer- 
ican people, a union under one bond of all the 
people, the American people. 

"The South did not want the war. It only 
wanted to retire in peace and establish a new 
nation which, under the Constitution, it be- 
lieved, it knew it had the right to do. All the 
broad field of conservatism had been explored 
in vain for some hope of a solution for the 
great problem on which the North and 
the South differed. The war was inevita- 
ble. Six hundred thousand of the best men of 
the South opposed the 2,500,000 of the Federal 
army and fought with them the 2,250 battles of 
the war. At the end, 437,000 men were not 
there to answer 'here' to the last roll call ; they 
had fallen in the fight, while 485,700 men of the 
Northern troops were slain. The men of the 
South did not surrender because they were 
whipped, for they never were, but they surren- 
dered because they were tired of victory. 

"In behalf of the great State of Texas, I, as 
the Governor of the State, accept into her care 
this monument, this tribute to the memory of 
patriotism of our fathers, which will never die, 
and whose deeds will live long after this beauti- 
ful monument has crumbled into ashes and 
mouldered in dust away." 

Amid a great deal of applause the band played 
"Dixie." 

With the magnificent monument to the dead 
heroes of Hood's Texas Brigade safely in the 
hands of the great State of Texas, a mighty 
cheer was sent heavenward. Governor Camp- 
bell's speech concluded unveiling exercises. 

tiio.sk on the platform. 
Among those on the platform were Governor 
Thomas M. Campbell, Hon. John H. Kirby, 
Major Georse W. Littlefield, Captain F. B. 
Chilton, Captain W. T. Hill, Captain W. H. 
Gaston, Colonel R. H. Harding, Captain E. K. 
Goree, General A. R. Johnson (whose eyes were 
shot out in the battle of Grubbs crossroads in 
August, 1S()4, when the br'gade was in Ken- 
tucky), Dr. J. D. Fields, General A. S. Rob- 
erts, President W. R. Hamby, Mayor A. P. 
Wooldridge, Commissioners E. C. Bartholomew, 



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P. W. Powell, P. P. Hart and D. B. Gracy, 
Chaplain J. V. Stevens, General W. L. Cabell 
of Dallas, Colonel R. M. Wynne of the Confed- 
erate Home, President S. E. Mezes, Dean W. 
S. Sutton, Dr. F. W. Simonds, Dr. H. Y. Bene- 
dict, Dr. J. T. Mather and Mr. John A. Lomax. 

(Austin Statesman, Oct. 27, 1910.) 

Next place of meetin<r, Cameron. 

Officers for the ensuing year : 

President, Captain Frank B. Chilton, Hous- 
ton, Texas. 

First Vice-President, General William K. 
Hamby, Austin, Texas. 

Second Vice-President, Captain W. T. Hill, 
Maynard, Texas. 

Third Vice-President, Captain W. H. Gaston, 
Dallas, Texas. 

Secretary-Treasurer, E. K. Goree, Huntsville, 
Texas. 

Chaplain, Rev. J. W. Stevens, Houston 
Heights, Texas. 

Surgeon, Dr. L. D. Hill, Austin, Texas. 

Quite the most exciting feature of the after- 
noon business session of the Hood's Brigade 
Veterans was sprung when Dr. J. C. Loggins 
introduced a resolution warmly endorsing 
Colonel R. M. Wynne's administration of the 
Confederate Home and recommending to the 
incoming Governor his retention in the position. 
Judge J. B. Policy of Floresville objected, de- 
claring that tlie question was a political one 
and that the Brigade's constitution forbade the 
organization as a body taking any such action. 
He said such a point of order had been sus- 
tained at former meetings. He did not believe 
sucli a step at this time would be for the best 
interest of the organization. 

Captain F. B. Chilton replied with an im- 
passioned plea, declaring that this was not a 
political question, but one which was peculiarly 
within the province of an old soldiers' organiza- 
tion to take action on. "Who on earth has the 
right," he asked, "to select a Superintendent for 
a Confederate Home if not old Confederates?" 

Captain W. C. Walsh of Austin was of the 
opinion tliat an endorsement was not out of 
place, but believed it unwise to attempt to make 
recommendations to the prospective Governor. 
He offered an amendment in line with this sug- 
gestion. 

When the question was put it was seen that 
the amendment lost and the original resolution 
carried. 

Captain F. B. Chilton, President of the Mon- 
ument Committee, made a short oral report and 
reviewing the history of the movement to build 
the moniiment. "Our greatest victory since the 
organization of the Brigade was achieved today 



when that splendid moniiment was unveiled," 
ho declared. He expressed appreciation of the 
co-operation of General W. R. Hamby, and de- 
clared that the accounts had been scrupulously 
kept. The memorial was entirely paid for he 
said, and a few dollars were left in the fund. 

The Hon. John H. Kirby entered the hall 
during the proceedings and was invited to n cCat 
on the stand and called upon for a talk. In 
speaking briefly to the members of the Brigade, 
who feel a high degree of gratitude for his gen- 
erous gift toward the erection of the monument, 
lie begged them not to magnify his act, for he 
felt that had he given a larger part of his pos- 
sessions to such a cause he would have done 
honor to himself in so doing. He said that 
when his long-time friend, Captain F. B. Chil- 
ton, President of Hood's Texas Brigade j\Ionu- 
ment Committee, came to him, he told him he 
would rather come in on a deficit, but to just say 
what he wanted him to do. He said twice, and 
he obeyed both times. He told of the Confed- 
erate influences in his early life, and declared 
that under the circumstances he could not help 
being a friend and helper of such an enterprise. 

Resolutions were introduced thanking Cap- 
tain Chilton for his successful work as President 
of the Monument Committee; also President 
Hamby and the other members of the cninmit- 
tee— Captain W. T. Hill, Captain W. H. Gas- 
ton, Major George W. Littlefield, John H. Kir- 
by, Governor T. M. Campbell and John G. Will- 
acy ; the city of Austin was thanked for its 
hospitality, as were Albert Sidney Johnston 
Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 
and W. C. Day, Superintendent of public build- 
ings and grounds. 

Little Irene Chilton, the 14-months-old 
daughter of Captain F. B. Chilton, the Presi- 
dent-elect, was voted the baby of Hood's Brigade. 

The contest between Austin and Cameron 
for the next meeting developed some interest, 
and the issue seemed in doubt for a time. In 
each case the Mayor and City Council trans- 
mitted an invitation. Invitations to meet at 
Austin were extended also by Albert Sidney 
Johnston Chapter and John B. Hood Camp. 

The officers were elected by acclamation in 
each case, except that of President, Captain F. 
B. Chilton being elected by a standing: vote. 

The meeting placed itself on record as favor- 
ing the proposed amendment to the State Con- 
stitution providing for the taking over of the 
Confederate Woman's Home by the State. 

The meeting concluded with a love feast and 
a visit to the Woman's Home. 

October 27th. 
Reunion reconvened at 2 :30 P. M., report of 
Monument Committee being first in order. 



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President F. B. Chilton made report as fol- 
lows: 

"I hold in my hand a mass of names of con- 
tributors to Monument Fund and a voluminous 
report from General Hamby, our Treasurer, 
none of which I shall read because it does not 
seem necessary to take up valuable time in doing 
so. We have had two Treasurers, Comrades W. 
H. Gaston and W. K. Hamby, in both of whom 
we have unlimited confidence, and we are sure 
the accounts are correct. Furthermore, we have 
the result in our grand monument, and as is 
seldom the case, it is every cent paid for, and 
we have a balance of $109.50 to credit of the 
fund. In fact, it is a big balance, since it 
amounts to $109.53. It is a grand showing to 
make, and as President of Monument Commit- 
tee, I am proud of it and feel sure every comrade 
joins with me in thanks and gratitude over our 
great success. 

"The list of every contributor to the Monu- 
ment Fund has been carefully made out and will 
be found in our minutes, soon to be published. 
I now ask that this report be received and my- 
self, as President of Hood's Texas Brigade Mon- 
ument Committee, be discharged from further 
duty." 

Report was unanimously received and Pres- 
ident F. B. Chilton discharged amid many 
thanks and various resolutions. 

CONTRIBUTORS TO HOOD'S TEXAS 
BRIGADE MONUMENT FUND. 

Following is complete list of every contribu- 
tion to Hood's Te.xas Brigade Monument Fund : 

1908. 

Mr. J. B. Jaqua, Houston, Texas $ 1.00 

Mrs. J. B. Beatty, Houston, Texas 5.00 

Mrs B. T. Wellborn, Somerville. Tex- 
as 9-00 

Mrs. M. D. Farris, Huntsville, Texas... 5.00 

Capt. W. T. Hill, Mavnard, Texas 10.00 

Randall Miller, Hearne, Texas 1.00 

Irvin Brantley, Somerville, Texas .50 

Nat and Jones Woffard, Cameron, 

Texas 1-00 

Hon. F. Chas. Hume, TTouston, Texas 5.00 

Mr. Jno. M. King, Cuero, Texas 5.00 

Mr. A. B. Hood, Wilcox, Texas _ 5.00 

Mr. B. F. Bullock, Rogers, Texas 5.00 

Mr. Ben Hillyard, Rogers, Texas .25 

Dr. W P. Powell, Willis, Texas 5.00 

Mr. J. H. Plasters, Temple, Texas 5.00 

Mrs. B. S. Fitzgerald, Houston, Texas 5.00 

Mr. R. R. Stratton, Call, Texas 5.00 

Mr. James Connolly, Deanville, Texas 5.00 

Mr. E. K. Qoree, Huntsville, Texas„.. 25.00 



Mrs. D. McCreery, Corsicana, Texas... 2.00 

Mr. Jno. C. Roberts, Bremond, Texas... 25.00 
Mrs. Jefferson Davis Hays, Colorado 

Springs, Colo .". 25.00 

Mrs. E. S. Jemison, Talladega, Ala 100.00 

Mrs. Bettie McClanahan, Cold 

Springs, Texas 5.00 

Mr. M. V. Smith, Luling, Texas 10.00 

Mr. J. L. Tarkington, Tarkington 

Prairie, Texas - 5.00 

Mr. Calhoun Kearse, Weldon, Texas... 5.00 
Hon. C. B. Randall, M. C, Sherman, 

Texas 2.00 

Hon. Morris Shepard, M. C, Texar- 

kana, Texas 10.00 

Mr. J. W. Trowbridge, Andersonville, 

S. C - 5.00 

Mr. A. B. Hood, Wilcox, Texas 5.00 

Mr. D. Flaniken, Talbot, Texas 5.00 

Hon. James L. Slayden, M. C, San 

Antonio, Texas 2.00 

Mr. J. W. Dallas, Brenham, Texas 5.00 

Mr. H. P. Traweek, Burnet, Texas 5.00 

Hon. Jno. M. Moore, M. C, Rich- 
mond, Texas - 25.00 

Capt. W. T. Hill, Maynard, Texas 8.50 

Mr. B. B. Gilmer, Houston, Texas 10.00 

jMr. J. H. Stephens, Temple, Texas 5.00 

Mr. P. K. Goree, Midwav, Texas _ 5.00 

Capt. J. T. Hunter, Bronte, Texas 5.00 

Ike Turner Camp, U. C. V., Living- 
ston, Texas - 10.80 

Mr. W. H. Mathews, Livingston, 

Texas 1.50 

Mr. A. B. Green, Livingston, Texas 1.50 

Mr. W. J. Towns, Salado, Texas 4.00 

Mr. A. Miles, Atlanta, Texas .„... 5.00 

Dr. J. C. Loggins, Ennis, Texas 10.00 

Hon. W. E. Barry, Navasota, Texas... 10.00 

Capt. W. T. Hill,' Maynard, Texas 6.00 

Mrs. W. T. Hill, Maynard, Texas _ 5.00 

Mrs. Callie Hill, Waverlv, Texas 5.00 

Mrs. W. P. Powell, Willis, Texas 1.50 

Mr. J. R. Blade, Athens, Texas -. 2.50 

Dr. W. P. Powell, Willis, Texas _ 5.00 

Mr. Frank Ezell, Jacksonville, Texas... 5.00 

Dr. J. C. Cox, Tyler, Texas _ 5.00 

Mr. J. J. Hail, Corsicana, Texas 10.00 

Capt. Geo. T. Todd. Jefferson, Texas... 5.00 

]\Ir. M. V. Smith, Luling, Texas... 5.00 

Dr. J. K. Moore, Luling, Texas _ 5.00 

Mr. Jno. H. Drennan, Calvert, Texas 25.00 

City of Calvert, Calvert, Texas 75.00 

Col". R. J. Harding, Jackson, Miss....„. 50.00 

Capt. W. H. Gaston, Dallas, Texas 100.00 

Mr. R. A. Brantley, Somerville, 

Texas 10.00 

Dr. Sam. R. Burroughs, BufiEalo, Tex- 
as ..„ — - 50.00 



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Mr. L. E. Frank, Jacksonville, Texas 48.37 
Mr. R. K. Felder, Chappell Hill, 

Texas _ 10.00 

Mr. Hart T. Sapp, Houston, Texas 5.00 

Maj. B. F. Weems, Houston, Texas 5.00 

Capt. F. B. Chilton, Angleton, Texas... 35.00 

J. G. Willacy, Corpus Christi, Texas... 200.00 
Capt. W. D. Cleveland, Houston, 

Texas 100.00 

Mr. W. N. Cameron, Coleman, Texas 5.00 

Hon. E. J. Fry, Marshall, Texas 5.00 

Mr. E. A. Ferris, Dallas, Texas 1.00 

Col. B. B. Paddock, Ft. Worth, Texas 5.00 

Mr. J. S. Eice, Houston, Texas 10.00 

Mr. E. H. Hicks, Eockdale, Texas 10.00 

Mr. J. H. P. Davis, Richmond, Texas 5.00 

Mr. A. E. Watson, Marlin, Texas 500.00 

Col. John D. Eogers, Galveston, Texas 100.00 
Hon. E. A. Blount, San Augustine, 

Texas _ 5.00 

Jlr. J. T. Eeeves, Caldwell, Texas 5.00 

Col. W. S. Davidson, Beaumont, 

Texas _ 10.00 

Judge J. B. PoUey, Floresville, Texas 25.00 
The Sul Eoss Camp, U. C. V., Den- 
ton, Texas 2.50 

Mr. J. W. Sneed, Rosebud, Texas 25.00 

The Hood's Brigade Chapter, U. D. 

C, Somerville, Texas 10.00 

1909. 
Messrs. Carson, Sewall & Co., Hous- 
ton, Texas _ „ 100.00 

Capt. W. T. Hill, Maynard, Texas 35.50 

Hon. J. W. Bailey, Gainesville, 

Texas 25.00 

Mr. E. B. Cocke, San Antonio, Texas 10.00 
Capt. J. C. Hutcheson, Houston, 

Texas _ 100.00 

Judge R. S. Lovett, Houston, Texas... 25.00 

Mr. Ed Buckley, Eagle Pass, Texas 25.00 

Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone, Galves- 
ton, Texas _ 5.00 

Capt. B. Eldridge, Brenham, Texas 25.00 

Capt. W. T. Hili, Maynard, Texas 15.50 

Senator C. A. Culberson, Dallas, 

Texas , „ 25.00 

Hon. T. S. Henderson, Cameron, 

Texas _ 5.00 

Capt. T. C. Buffington, Anderson, 

Texas 50.00 

Mr. E. R. Crockett, Austin, Texas _ 5.00 

Miss Lucy Brown, Ft. Worth, Texas... 5.00 

Judge John C. West, Waco, Texas 10.00 

Mr. J. W. Dallas, Brenham, Texas 5.00 

Mrs. Julia Bush, Huntsville, Texas 10.00 

Mr. R. W. Brahan, Huntsville, Texas 5.00 

Cash _. .75 

Mr. James Sharp _ 1.00 

Mr. E. M. Simmons „ _ 1.00 



Mr. M. D. Kelley _ 2.00 

Mr. J. N. Walling, Corsicana, Texas... 5.00 

Mr. J. C. Alford 2.00 

Col. R. J. Harding, Jackson, Miss 20.00 

Capt. J. T. Hunter, Huntsville, Texas 20.00 

Mrs. Walker, Marshall, Texas 5.00 

Mr. J. J. Evans 5.00 

Mr. J. J. Hale, Streetman, Texas 20.00 

Mr. J. A. Bolton 2.50 

Capt. W. T. Hill, Maynard, Texas 10.00 

Dr. Sam R. Burroughs, Buffalo, 

Texas 25.00 

Gov. Joseph D. Sayers, Austin, Texas 20.00 

Hon. W. L. Derden, Corsicana, Texas 25.00 
Mr. J. W. Trowbridge, Anderson, 

S. C 10.00 

Miss M. D. Wallingford, Joseph, 

Texas _ 5.00 

Mr. M. V. Smith, Luling, Texas 100.00 

The R. S. Gould Camp, U. C. V., 

Leona, Texas 10.60 

Mrs. J. A. Moore, Goliad, Texas 1.00 

Mrs. Gertrude Curtright, Cusseta, 

Texas _ I.OO 

Mrs. J. B. Battey, San Antonio, 

Texas l.OO 

Judge Beauregard Bryan, El Paso, 

Texas 5.00 

Dr. Campbell Wood, Cherokee, Texas 2.00 

Capt. W. T. Hill, Maynard, Texas 5.00 

Judge T. W. Ford, Houston, Texas 5.00 

Mr. J. C. Hill, Maynard, Texas 25.00 

Mr. J. E. Landes, Chappell Hill, 

Texas 5.00 

Dr. S. 0. Young, Galveston, Texas 25.00 

Miss Doris Young, Galveston, Texas... 25.00 

Judge J. B. Policy, Floresville, Texas 10.00 

Mr. Ed W. Roberts, Bremond, Texas... 10.00 

Mr. Ed W. Roberts, Bremond, Texas... 10.00 

Mr. W. A. Florence, Marietta, Ga 35.00 

Mr. J. A. Bradfield, Dallas, Texas 5.00 

Capt. E. K. Goree, Huntsville, Texas 250.00 
Col. C. C. Hemming, Colorado 

Springs, Col 5.OO 

Col. James Garritv, Corsicana, Texas 10.00 

Capt. Sloan Simpson, Dallas, Te.xas... 2.00 
Mr. J. W. Trowbridge, Anderson, S. 

C 1.00 

Hon. E. J. Fry, Marshall, Texas 5.00 

Mr. John M. Loggins, Waxahachie, 

Texas 5.00 

Col. J. S. Rice, Houston, Texas 25.00 

Citizens of Anderson, Texas, through 

Mrs. B. B Throope 14.50 

Citizens of Livingston, Texas, through 

Mr. J. N. Alexander 18.00 

Citizens of Coleman, Texas, through 

Mrs. Dunman 2.50 

Citizens of Meridian, Texas, through 

Mr. A. P. Fossett „. 2.50 



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THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REUNION 



Citizens of Ennis, Texas, through Miss 

Katie Daffan 50.00 

Citizens of Brenham, Texas, through 

Mr. J. B. Williams 64.05 

Citizens of Navasota, Texas, through 

Mrs. W. S. Craig 35.33 

Citizens of Oakwood, Texas, through 

Mrs. Carrie Mayer 5.25 

Citizens of Calvert, Texas, through 

Mrs. Harry Field - 121-95 

Citizens of Wills Point, Texas, through 

Mrs. Meredith 40.00 

Citizens of Bonham, Texas, through 

Mr. A. F. Wiggs 18.50 

Citizens of Beaumont, Texas, through 

Mrs. Hal W. Greer _ 100.00 

Jlrs. C. B. Stone, Galveston, Texas 5.00 

Hood's Brigade Chapter, Somerville, 

Texas, through Mrs. Wellborn 25.00 

Mr. J. B. Currier, Paint Rock, Texas 10.00 
Citizens of Corsicana, Texas, through 

Mrs. Ransom ' 33.80 

Citizens of Chappell Hill, Texas, 

through Mrs. J. B. Williams 5.50 

Hood's Brigade, Jr., Houston, Texas, 

through Mrs. M. E. Bryan 150.00 

The Citizens of Galveston, Texas, 

through Mrs. C. H. Bader 100.00 

Mrs. Ida E. Lampkin, Meridian, Tex. 2.50 

The Mildred Lee Chapter, U. D. C, 

Lampasas, Texas 1.00 

Calvert, Texas, through Mrs. Harry 

Field 5.00 

Citizens of Jonah, Texas, through 

Mrs. T. C. Palmer l.GO 

The Albert Sidney Johnston Chap- 

terr, Austin, Texas, through Mrs. 

J. I). Roberdeau 100.00 

The W. P. Rodgors Chapter, Victoria, 

Texas, through Mrs. Wheeler 30.00 

The Buschel Chapter, U. D. C, Fred- 
ericksburg, Texas, through Mrs. 

Amelia Rilev - 5.00 

The Marsliall Chapter, U. D. C, 

through Mrs. M. T. Huetsill 5.00 

The T. N. Waul Chapter, U. D. C, 

Hearne, Texas, through Mrs. T. C. 

West brook 25.00 

Lone Star Chapter, U. D. C, San Mar- 
cos, Texas, through Jlrs. A. L. Davis 5.00 
Mr. W. E. Richard, Houston, Texas... 20.00 

Mrs. D. A. Nunn. Crockett, Texas 10.00 

The Gertrude Curtright Chapter, U. 

D. C, Atlanta, Texas 12.15 

1910. 

Col. D. A. Nunn, Crockett, Texas $ 10.00 

Mr. C. L. Edminston, Crockett, Texas 1.00 

Mr. G. B. Lundy, Crockett, Texas 5.00 



Mr. A. H. Wooters, Crockett, Texas... 10.00 

Judge E. Winfrey, Crockett, Texas 5.00 

Mr. J. E. Downs, Crockett, Texas 5.00 

Mr. J. S. Wooters, Crockett, Texas 5.00 

Captain W. B. Wall, Crockett, Texas... 10.00 

Gen. A. S. Roberts, Austin, Texas 10.00 

Mr. John W. Gee, Bryan, Texas _ 2.00 

Mr. L N. Parker, Trinity, Texas 10.00 

Mr. J. P. Smith, Gibtown, Texas 1.00 

Mr. A. N. Hinson, Gatesville, Texas 3.00 

Mr. A. B. Hood, Somerville, Texas 1.00 

Mr. D. Flaniken, Talbert, Texas 5.00 

Mr. Calvin Goodlow, San Antonio, 

Texas 1 .00 

Mr. Edward Buckley, Eagle Pass, Tex. 10.00 

Mr. W. W. Polk, Austin, Texas 5.00 

Mr. R. D. Blickshear, Navasota, Texas 10.00 

Mr. H. P. Traweek, Burnet, Texas 5.00 

Mr. H. N. Key, Lampasas, Texas 25.00 

General K. M. Van Zandt, Ft. Worth, 

Texas 25.00 

Mr. Milton Livingston, Lockney, Texas 5.00 

Captain Ed Duggan, San Angelo, Tex. 10.00 

Mr. Louis Coleman, Houston, Texas... 2.50 

Dr. Williim Schadt. Galveston, Tex.... 5.00 
Dr. Edward Shackelford, Prattville, 

Ala 1.00 

Mrs. E. P. Smith, Austin, Texas 5.00 

Mr. J. R. Glaze, Linden, Texas 1.00 

Hon. Geo. F. Burgess, Gonzales, Tex. 5.00 

Hon. A. S. Burleson, Austin, Texas 10.00 

Hon. Rufus Hardy, Corsicana, Texas... 5.00 
Mr. B. Y. Jlilam and wife, Palestine, 

Texas _ 1.00 

Mr. E. T. Wilson, Singleton, Texas 2.00 

Mr. A. H. Carter, Columbus, Texas 5.00 

Mr. E. H. Astin, Bryan, Texas 50.00 

Major George W. Littlefield, Austin, 

Texas „ 1,000.00 

Hon. Jobn H. Kirbv. Houston, Tex 5,000.00 

Mr. J. W. Deme, Blum, Texas 5.00 

Mr. Geo. M. Roberdeau, Austin, 

Texas 5.00 

Mr. R. F. Wren, Amarillo, Texas 2.00 

j\Trs. J. R. TurnbuU, Orange, Texas 1.00 

Mrs. S. C. Watters, Lake Charles. La. 2.00 
Mt. Nicholas Pomeroy, County Cork, 

Ireland '.. " 10.23 

Gov. Geo. T. Jester, Corsicana, Texas 25.00 
Citizens of Lampasas, Texas, through 

Mrs. R. S. Mills _ 10.00 

Mrs. W. A. Watson, Thornton, Texas... 5.00 

Mrs. R. L. Dunman, Brownwond, Tex. 5.00 

Mr. W. F. Watson, Dallas, Texas 5.00 

Mr. Jno. C. West, Waco, Texas 5.00 

Gov. Thos. M. Campbell, Austin, Tex. 100.00 

Hon. A. W. Gregg, Palestine, Texas 25.00 

Hon. James B. Seargent, Orange. Tex. 15.00 

Mr. William E. Astin, Hearne, Texas 10.00 



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Mr. W. T. Wliite, Lake Charles, La 2.00 

Mr. N. B. Moser, Milam, Texas 1.00 

Mr. John W. Campbell, Knox City, 

Texas 2.00 

Captain W. J. Towne, Salado, Texas... 1.50 

Mr. J. B. Lott, jS^avasota, Texas 5.00 

Wm. E. Hamby, Austin, Texas 100.00 

W. J. Watts, Palestine, Texas 5.00 

Eobert Hasson 1.00 

Willis J. Landrum, Montgomery, Tex. 1.00 

Total collected for monument $10,776.13 

Monument and incidental expenses 10,666.01 

Balance Cash on Hand $ 109.53 

Secretary of Association was ordered to pub- 
lish minutes of Association in reunion at Aus- 
tin, and dedication of monument, in book form 
as soon as possible, and President was author- 
ized to use monument balance to pay for same. 
Resolution to that effect being offered and 
unanimously passed. 



RESOLUTIONS. 

Following resolution by Dr. Sam R. Bur- 
roughs was unanimously adopted : 

Whereas, We have this day witnessed the 
consummation of that desire which has been 
aglow in our hearts for a period of more than 
two score years in the unveiling of a grand 
and beautiful monument to perpetuate the 
honor, character and military achievements of 
Hood's Texas Brigade; and, 

WiiERE.\s. The building of such a structure 
demands intellectual ability, much labor, time, 
patience and money; and, 

Where.vs, Our Monument Committee has 
fully and satisfactorily demonstrated its su- 
perior ability in the completion of the great 
and important work assigned it; therefore be it 

Resolved, That Hood's Texas Brigade Asso- 
ciation tender to each and every member of said 
Committee its most sincere and jirofound thanks 
and heart-felt gratitude for the valuable and 
most distinguished services rendered ; and be 
it further 

Resolved, That in as much as the initiatory 
steps taken in this great work were boldly and 
persistently made by our most worthy comrade. 
Frank B. Chilton, President of Committee, and 
through his effective influence grew into a bril- 
liant success, that this Association tender him 
a special vote of thanks for his untirins; ef- 
forts in the great work he has so grandly ac- 
complished. 

Sam R. Burroughs. 



Following resolution, offered by Capt. Geo. 
T. Todd, was unanimously adopted : 

Whereas, The great and noble undertaking 
of erecting a monument to the memory of 
Hood's Texas Brigade, with many historic in- 
scriptions, which have aided in embalming and 
immortalizing its deeds of bravery on 24 fields 
of battle, as named on the monument, demands 
of us recognition and never-dying thanks ; there- 
fore. 

Resolved, That the names of said Commit- 
tee, to-wit : Comrades Frank B. Chilton, 4th 
Texas, President; William E. Hamby, 4th 
Texas; W. H. Gaston, 1st Texas; and W. T. 
Hill. 5th Texas, tosether with Geo. W. Little- 
field, John H. Kirby, Thos. M. Campbell and 
J. G. Willacy, be inscribed upon a full page 
of our Records, and a copy of these resolutions 
be sent to each of them and their families, in 
token of our grateful appreciation of their suc- 
cessful work in the erection on the capitol 
grounds at Austin of the monument to Hood's 
Texas Brigade. 

Resolved, Further, That in the appella- 
tion as "Texas Brigade" we only use its his- 
toric name, given on account of the First, 
Fourth and Fifth Regiments of Texas Infantry, 
and we do not exclude the equally gallant com- 
mands of the Hampton Legion of S. C, the 
Eighteenth Georsiia, and the Third Arkansas 
Regiments, and Riley's Battery, which were and 
are parts of Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Geo. T. Todd, 
For 2 1-2 years Capt. Co. A, First Texas Regt. 

Following the report of Comrade J. B. Pol- 
ley as to his history of Hood's Texas Brigade, 
Comrade J. C. Loggins offered following reso- 
lution, adoption of which was moved by Com- 
rade F. B. Chilton, same being duly seconded 
was unanimously adopted : — 

Austin, Texas, Oct. 27, 1910. 

Whereas, At the 36th reunion of Hood's 
Texas Brigade Association, held at Navasota, 
J. B. Policy, of Company F, Fourth Texas, was 
chosen as historian and authorized to write the 
history of Hood's Texas Brigade; and. 

Whereas, J. B. Policy having perfonned the 
task as,?igned him in creditable manner, and the 
history, we consider, as fair and just to each 
Regiment and as complete a record of the 
achievements of Hood's Texas Brigade as could 
be given in the space of one volume ; therefore 
be it — 

Resolved, That the history receive the en- 
dorsement of Hood's Texas Brigade Association 
and its members recommended to procure a copy 



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of said history that their descendants may learn 
what Texans have achieved. 

Eesolved, Further, That the thanks of 
Hood's Texas Brigade Association are due J. 
B. PoHey for the able manner in which he has 
performed the service assigned him. 

Capt. Chilton had subscribed for ten copies 
of history for his own family and had secured 
subscriptions for sixty-five additional, making 
a total of seventy-five, and thought every com- 
rade ought to secure at least one copy. 

Resolution offered by Dr. J. C. Loggins and 
adopted by Hood's Texas Brigade Association 
at Austin,' Texas, October 28, 1910:— 

Whereas, The conditions of the Confeder- 
ate Home and its inmates are improved, undo:' 
the superintendoncy of Col. R. M. Wynne, over 
what they have been in the past, and the spirit 
of satisfaction and contentment among the in- 
mates such as to be gratifying indeed to all 
of us; and. 

Whereas, We believe this is due very large- 
ly to the intelligent efforts of Col. Wynne to 
make the Home just what it was originally in- 
tended to be — a comfortable home for the needy 
and dependent homeless Confederates ; and. 

Whereas, Colonel Wynne has done that to 
our satisfaction, his superior ability as a super- 
intendent to the Confederate Home, and his 
special fitness for the discharge of the duties 
of that institution to the satisfaction of those 
old men who are the inmates of the Home; 
therefore, be it 

Resolved. By the Hood's Brigade Associa- 
tion, that we must cheerfully endorse Col. R. 
M. Wynne for reaiipointment, and very earn- 
estly ask Governor 0. B. Colquitt to keep Col. 
Wynne as superintendent for the Home again, 
because we believe he is pre-eminently the man 
to make the Home meet in its every detail the 
purpose for which tlie Home is maintained, 
and the one who will, in his peculiar fitness 
for tlie duties of that office, contribute most 
to the happine-s and comfort of the old men 
in whom we all feel an affectionate interest. 

Comrade E. K. Goree offered following reso- 
lution, making Irene Chilton, 14 months old, 
daughter of Capt. F. B. Chilton, "Baby of 
Hood's Texas Brigade," which was followed 
by resolution of Capt. J. T. Hunter, and after 
receiving many seconds, Miss Irene Chilton was 



"Riiby of Hood's Texas 
enthusiasm and pleas- 



unanimously t^o named, 
Brigade,'' amid much 
antry : — 

Mr. President and Comrades: Speaking 
of Babies — now, I am an old bachelor, so there 



is nothing like that in my family. I stopped 
in Houston Monday night with Comrade Frank 
B. Chilton, and he introduced me to his baby 
daughter, Miss Irene Chilton, a beautiful lit- 
tle girl. She looks just like her father — only 
she's pretty ! Just 14 months old and she is a 
perfect wonder of brightness. Now, I move that 
this little Irene Chilton be named the "Baby 
of Hood's Texas Brigade." and if there is any 
one now claiming that ap]3ellation then I move 
that she be called the "Babiest Baby of the 
Brigade.' E. K. Goree. 

Resolution of Captain J. T. Hunter, Com- 
mander Company H, Fourth Texas Regt., 
Hood's Texas Brigade: — 

Comrades: It has been my good fortune to 
know Miss Irene Chilton, a sweet lovely young 
lady of 14 months, and just beginning to lisp 
the name "daddy." I also have the pleasure 
of knowing her mother, an accomplished pa- 
triotic Texas lady, and when I say Texas lady 
I mean she is in a class with the most lovely wo- 
men on this earth (to my way of thinking). 
As to the father, what I have to say of him — 
is what I know — he is one of our most loved 
and useful comrades, and the one that has 
proven Hood's Texas Brigade's best friend. I 
know him as a soldier; he was a private in my 
company in Virginia and was at all times truly 
a brave soldier and both ready and steadfast 
wherever placed, and doing well every duty he 
was called on to perform. But it took a man 
with his devotion to our cause, his patriotism, 
his lirains and executive ability to have raised 
the large amount of money and erected the 
great monument we this morning dedicated. 
Achieving it all in two years by private sub- 
scriptions is a feat that yet looks inexplicable — 
i.s something no one else could have done and 
which no one else can ever duplicate. 

This wonderful feat of Frank Chilton is no 
surprise to those who know him well — since the 
word "failure" is not in his dictionary or at- 
tacherl to any acts of his life. Frank Chilton 
is fully competent to do almost anything he 
undertakes. He has also given to the old 
Brigade a baby of which they may well be 
proud, as they surely will be of so beautiful a 
little comrade and charming child as Miss 
Irene. Consequently, I most heartily endorse 
Comrade Goree's motion, knowing as I do, that 
b/inj; brought up in a home that is a miniature 
Confederate museum, and taught by such 
Texas parents as hers are, she will be a true 
Rebel and love Hood's Texas Brigade as her 
fond parents certainly do. Therefore, it is with 
no ordinary pleasure I second Comrade Goree 
and join him in asking that Irene Chilton be 



HOOD'S BRIGADE BABY 




IRENE CHILTOxX 

Daughter of Captain F. B. Chilton, president of Hood's Texas Brigade association. 

The baby was duly christened "Baby of the Brigade" at the reunion 

held in Austin October 26 and 27, 1910. She is 

fourteen months old 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



47 



made by unanimous vote the "Baby of Hood's 
Texas Brigade." J. T. Hunter, 

Capt. Co. H, Fourth Texas Eegt. 

Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Many resolutions were offered giving un- 
stinted praise to Captain F. B. Chilton for the 
erection of the monument, amid which General 
Wm. R. Hamby made a splendid talk, wherein 
he demanded that distinctive credit be given to 
Comrade Chilton as he alone deserved entire 
credit for building the monument, that it was 
his fight and his victory. Comrade Chilton ob- 
tained a hearing and emphatically disclaimed 
all the credit. He said no victory of Hood's 
Texas Brigade had ever yet been chronicled 
where one man did all the fighting, and since 
in the erection of that monument to the memory 
of nearly 4,000 dead heroes Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade had achieved one of its greatest victories he 
did not wish to stand alone in the news of the 
battle — that all his comrades had stood nobly 
by him and there was honor a-plenty in hav- 
ing led so forlorn a hope to speedy and glorious 
victory — therefore he wished no higher guerdon 
than the confidence of his comrades and a sense 
of havinsT tried to do his full duty. That with- 
out Hood's Texas Brigade to build a monument 
to, without their dead and their deeds to com- 
memorate, and without the few survivors to 
lean on, and their presence in the flesh to ur^e 
him on — no monument could have been built 
and dedicated as it has been today. Comrade 
Chilton read following excerpt from letter of 
Brigade Historian Gen. J. B. Pollev, under 
date of March 27th, 1909, and said he would 
have what Comrade Pollev said of him ensrraved 
on glass and buried with him — and that he ac- 
cepted it as if coming from all his comrades — 
and he wanted no hisrher testimonial to live or 
die by. General Policy wrote: — 

"I give you credit for history, for Company 
rolls and monument. But for you we old fel- 
lows would have dreamed on and never awoke 
to a sense of the situation, and would have 
finally died, 'unhonored, unsung,' and perhaps 
'unwept.' As it is, we will leave to posterity 
a correct list of our names, a fairly accurate 
account of onr deeds, and a monument to our 
dead that will be a constant reminder of com- 
ing generations that their fathers dared to fight 
and die for Right — not simplv Right as they 
saw it, but Eight as it was and yet is." 

Following invitation from Mrs. 0. B. Col- 
quitt was read, received and responded to. Mrs. 
Colquitt received many thanks for her special 
efforts at both comfort and entertainment of 
Association, and especially for her able assist- 



ance in matter of beautiful flag decorations for 
monument unveiling : — 

Austin, October 26, 1910. 
General W. R. Hamby, 

President Hood's Texas Brigade. 
CAPITOL. 

Dear Sir: Visitors attending the rmniou of 
Hood's Texas Brigade are mos": (ordi'.Ily in- 
vited to visit the Confederate Woman's Home 
on tomorrow afternoon, 4 to 6 p. m. 

The ladies having charge of the management 
of the Home are anxious to have the survivors 
of Hood's Brigade visit the old ladies and vv^it- 
ne^s the good work being done. This is espe- 
cially desirable because the constitutional 
amendment, providing for the support of the 
Home by the State, will be voted on in the gen- 
eral election next month. 

The ladies will serve refreshments. 
Very respectfully, 

Mrs. 0. B. Colquitt, 
Chairman Board of Managers, 
Confederate Woman's Home. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 

Time having arrived for election of officers 
for ensuing year. Rev. J. W. Stevens offered 
following resolution as covering his nomination: 

That Comrade F. B. Chilton be declared our 
choice for President of Hood's Texas Brigade 
Association; that all nominations be closed and 
that he be unanimously elected by a rising vote. 
After many enthusiastic seconds the Association 
rose to its feet in endorsement of the resolution 
and F. B. Chilton's election. 

Upon election of Comrade Chilton as Pres- 
ident General Hamby vacated the chair and of- 
fered the gavel to the new President, but by re- 
quest of Comrade Chilton, General Hamby re- 
tained the chair throughout the balance of re- 
union. General Hambv at the same time turned 
over to the new President the beautiful Wilson 
loving cup, which by custom remains in custody 
of the presidents of the Association. 

In relation to which President Chilton offered 
the following resolution: 

Whereas, our loving cup, presented to us by 
the son of a comrade, in honor of his father, is 
to be passed from hand to hand ; therefore, it is 
ordered by the Association that same be turned 
over to E. K. Goree, life Secretary of the Asso- 
ciation, to be safely kept and cared for by him. 

Resolution was unanimously adopted and 
President Chilton turned the loving cup over to 
Secretary Goree. 

There being repeated calls for Comrade Chil- 
ton, he came to the front, accepted the position 
of President, speaking partly as follows: 



4^ THIRTY-XIXTH ANNUAL REUNION' 

"If 7 : "Tiies, I list to atteapt aa err'ar.t- r-ascd. As&'ciaikn of nj cocirades of Hood's 

^ ~ ' = * z Toor pseseat artim has Texas Brzi^ie hi"? =<: — »-""- --r7g?T s^^orsed 

" ■s««I siereatyped speeA of rijseif aijc ill I cii bj jajii^ Ir Tctee. deed aisd 

•a honor, ftat las beea aft»flW- 'veQ d^K^ ikaa. goad aad fnikfal 

^^^"^^ *1» ^^ **^ 8" senaHt/ it did seem Aai. arr cap of faoosis w»s 

L ' "^ thk m omgit. sBirfr falL Haiwers-. smee tchi Bare seen fit 

l-^T aSBErt^ it ^^ f^fj^ jj ^ ^j^ j^ ,^^ tftJT^flHWl rf 

"^.P^™^ TOor eflBMence, I a«^ it too, IB tiie ^izit it 

is ufikfui. 

- "!>-rn im SovA Tesas &eie is a wi& aad 

tIbo win not be giad GO hear I bare ar- 

. i=:ther honsfs fran Hood's Texas Bci- 

~ ^SKd ^ade. That vi£e fednde ft vha I started tar 

'' i *S* AiB=tiii with these voids: Tow ha»e wotked 

- ^ oar ^at^ E jnasM to deaA for U^orr rolls aad so^ 

^ ^'s fiiis vnrid, amt for Oaee veais: aD are a saeeesE aad YOB 

'- ^the fdd be Med ,e^. jo ^ aeeept Esther hardeK-^a»- 

>I1 ih^^ Ifsnt -pm. vant to baild jwar ot>b asaBBBtaiL* 
^^ ^ *- Thrt'wifie s baoBod vp zb Hood's Arcade ad 
'^ Bfc^ evigi Bij ir^^ c MdigB diei^ <rf it wad. its 
tmBjrphs. 
^- ""BoBfr Pnaade B t f£ Urn AasadmSe 
- -^ vock te'rae, as obt ob ligaii i MW to 
ir^ eomades aad Oe ease we » hr»ed 4 

"*!& oar eu t Bp i efa a d rrihE, aMaanaifc ^m his- 

-== Tears aao—aot -:.ii-— -- . --- r. Tt» ii iii ■ iThbiwI la ■mail ill oi 

paid Be: ^ aad h^est honor k£t aad 1^ ^ k^, ^hd sttQ try «• ] 

HI Tjwr TT' -^ "'^. whea tbb said * _ , cfKnctaoas by mt deed 

•G-^ 7? J^ -id aad'td LaeEi '-^aw of Ait fetor tbt aiH be so 

e crg taar^ ' n^esy iwaHh^ - "''WTn(i: li ialJw iM has •ret 

ererr ?:e^ -iiies freet I::' :^ i hi i| n nib i (bin ^ot ■ast £e 

/ridaal, Mt be tJd awr by ew* 

~ ~T fiMViu be bst to tihe fataic 

^» ThereiDre. I plead v^ ereiy «■« bF yoB to be 

' ' * aSre e«efy noB^ of tiiae job have kfL I 

r' 3 have a lar^s eoOeetMa of data fint is hept etie- 

fnllT added ta. » Oitf Oe fBiaie ] 
3a«e it aE as to Hood's Te 

'-^Tow I waat eveiy eonade to ^aak 
«flte oat aad sead se uteii woe thy ~ 

irbrCc^- i ^-i -r JO J . „• . e TCB awr tttf cane aador bos ubii, 1 1 1 f m 

|iiM»i1 to »» was 'VBcr -jt tob b too tmiaL I vifl paeserve it 

^ -'t »wCi" ~3 toaaaaa^ea. lilies it oa yw 

every wai a h? arart be at 
sast iiaieli be aSve to fte £aet Aat ~ 
aey oar Aa !oe iati «a aBve ae l—g as tr 
to "do or die.' Sc -j sade uwiiadi I^. aad that ia mam.' 

ardor: ao dssr^'— .„:_ii. auatt be myeili eda i 'jiiBg aoweaf b»^ 

aato to taiiB on^ places ia lao t ee li a g e 





tosaeeeednr ic.e to ay ^Earefai, «d M oe r rf Ae beip 

Eazchaf pteat haaor of beoifr 3^1 

dd Teas "'rrrU ^1 iibbiT i^Riier Oaa I ea aes; haL to &e : 

eak as to I a^ J^m. oae mi d to tzy aad f a Bm m 

: ober^ fi«ng ad dead of Haod^ Teias Bnsz . 

hisdar do each of yoa tifta Oe aoae piedee.'' 



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CAPTAIN FRANK B. CHILTON, HOUSTON, TEXAS 

Company H., Fourth Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern \'irginia. 

President Hood's Texas Brigade Monument Committee. President 

Hood's Texas Brigade Association 



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General William E. Hamby, Captains W. T. 
Hill and W. H. Gaston were elected Vice-Pres- 
idents. E. ^. Goree, being Secretary for life, 
stated be wished his office could be passed 
around and received the assurance (he is a 
bachelor) that it might be when he got mar- 
ried 

'. Stcens was re-elected Chaplain, 
D. Hill, Surgeon, for life. 

. Hi ^quested that he be issued a 

.i.^;care showing his election as Association 

Su veon for life, as he wishes to frame and hang 

■■+ where he could see it every day. Certificate 

waF ""Pd issued. 

Nomination of place at which to hold 40th 
reunion, June 28th and 29th, 1911, being 
in order, Austin and Cameron, Texas, were 
placed in nomination and strong speeches made 
in support of each. Both places had gilt-edge 
invitations, but that of Cameron went further 
than mere official features, and bore the signa- 
tures of a majority of her best people, in every 
line, who guaranteed the old-time hospitality 
that Hood's Texas Brigade has received in so 
many Texas towns. It was further strength- 
ened by the statement of W. A. Xaburs that 
"no member of Hood's Texas Brigade 
would have to go down in his pocket 
for a cent while in reunion at Cameron, 
but would be taken care of and given the best 
to be had," and it was soon seen that Cameron 
had won with the Association, so much so that 
Austin was withdrawn, and it asked that Cam- 
eron be made unanimous, which was done witii 
much satisfaction. Notable with Cameron's in- 
vitation was a letter from Thomas A. Pope, 
both of which were as follows : 

LETTER OF THOS. A. POPE. 

Cameron, Texas, 

October 26, 1910. 
Commander Hood's Brigade, 

Austin, Texas. 
Dear Old Johnny : 

For nearly four years I was a target for your 
old Enfields. Almost before the smoke of battle 
cleared away I came to Texas and for forty 
years the best friends I have had were the old 
Confederates. They have always treated me like 
a comrade and I have found them to be always 
men good and true. The only trouble I ever had 
in the South was with the men who stayed at 
home and fought their battles after you laid 
down your arms with the immortal Lee. When 
your Confederate Home was first established at 
Austin, the Post of the Grand Army, by a unan- 



imous vote, gave the entire contents of our 
treasur}', amounting, I think, to $28.00, to the 
Home. I mention this to show the feeling of 
the old Yankees here. 

Now, on behalf of my comrades, I most heart- 
ily invite you to hold your next reunion at Cam- 
eron, Texas. I would like to swap stories with 
you. Ask "Billy" Nalnirs or Tom Bigbeo 
about me and the other Yanks. I am sure that 
every soul in Cameron will make you welcome. 

Come and be with us once more before taps 
are sounded and we cross over the river to rest 
in the shade with Stonewall. 

Most sincerely yours, ■ 

Thomas A. Pope, 

Co. B, 46th Indiana, Veteran Vol. Infantry. 

Cameron, Texas, October 26, 1910. 

To the Officers and Members of Hood's Texas 
Brigade, in Reunion Assembled at Austin, 
Texas : 

Sirs — In you we'reeognize the survival of as 
gallant soldiers as ever lost or won. The splen- 
did record of vour valor and fortitude at Gaines' 
Mill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg 
and the Wilderness, and on a dozen other fields, 
will never cease to inspire those who respect true 
courage and fidelity. With deep interest in that 
record and profound reverence for the cause for 
which you fought, we are impressed that one of 
your annual reunions assembled in our com- 
munity would afford our entire citizenship a 
source of supreme satisfaction. 

Therefore, we, the Mayor and members of the 
City Council, and the undersigned citizens of 
Cameron, do hereby proffer our fullest hospital- 
ity and extend to vou a most cordial invitation 
to assemble in our city for your next annual re- 
union. 

Ben Strum, Mayor. 

J. C. Joseph, Alderman. 

J. L. Clinton, Alderman. 

F. C. Mondrik, Alderman. 

W. H. Triggs. Alderman. 

U. S. Hearrell, Alderman 

Jeff. T. Kemn, County Clerk. 

W. C. Eoss, Fanner. 

B. J. Baskin, Merchant. 

D. Monroe. M. D. 

H. F. Smith, Banker 

T. G. Sampson, Banker. 

J. B. Wolf. Ex-Mayor. 

Cameron State Bank, by T. F. Hardy, Pres't. 

Geo. A. Thomas & Sons, Druggists. 

J. C. Reese, Druggist. 

A. N. Green, Merchant. 



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First National Bank, H. M. Hefley, Casl.ier. 

J. E. Watts. Sunerintendent City Schooh 

Cheeves Bros., Dry Goods. 

New Cameron Drug Co.. 

John L. Denson. M. D. 

T. J. Denson, M. D. 

T. S. Henderson, Lawyer. 

J. W. Gnrner, Lawyer. 

W. G. Gillis, Lawyer. 

J. E. Holtzdani, Sheriff. 

E. S. Porter, Merchant. 

J. Dobbins, Merchant. 

Giles L. Avriett, District Clerk. 

R .S. Wiley, Tax Assessor. 

M. G. Cox, Lawyer. 

E. Lyles, Attorney. 

Fol'owing invitations were from Mayor of 
Austin. President of U. D. C. and Command'T 
of John B. Hood Camp. 

Austin, Texas, October 26, 1910. 

To the John B. Hood Brigade Association, 
Austin : 

The Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter U. D. 
C. most cordially invites you to hold the re- 
union of 1911 in Austin, and will do all in our 
power to make it a pleasant occasion for the 
heroes of many ijattles, whom we love, honor 
and revere. 

Very sincerely, 

Mrs. W. T. Wroe, 

Prsii^ent Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter 105, 
U. D. C. 

Austin, Texas. Oct. 26, 1910. 

To the Honorable President and the Members 
of the John B. Hood Bricrade Association of 
Texas, now in session at Austin, Texas : 

Gentlemen — By authority of a resolution 
passed by the City Council of this city, I have 
especial pride, honor and pleasure in inviting 
you, in behalf of the citizens of Austin, to hold 
your annual reunion for the year 1911 in this 
city. 

Austin will esteem it an especial pleasure to 
entertain you at .your next annual convention. 
Eespcctfully, 

A. P. WOOLDRIDGE, Mayor. 



Austin, Texas, Oct. 26, 1910. 
To the Honorable President and Members of 
Hood's Brigade Association of Texas, now in 
session at Austin, Texas : 

Gentlemen — By authority as Commander of 
the John B. Hood Camp, Confederate Veterans, 
I have special pride and pleasure in inviting you 
in behalf of the Camp, the Confederate \^et- 
erans and citizens of Austin, to hold your next 
annual reunion in this city. 

Eespcctfully, 

Ah. MUSGROVE, 

Commander John B. Hood Camp, Confederate 
Vei,erans. 

W. M. GiBBEN, 

Adjutant. 

Invitation from Cameron unanimously ac- 
cepted by the Association. 

Following resolution was passed unanimously: 

Our sincere thanks are hereby tendered Cap- 
tain Day of Austin for his untiring efforts in be- 
half of every interest of the reunion. Particu- 
larly to Mrs. W. T. Wroe, as President, and to 
all daughters of A. S. Johnston Chapter. TT. D. 
C, are our thanks and gratitude due for all they 
did to make the reunion and monument dedica- 
tion a most perfect success. Mrs. Wroe being 
present at all our sessions and untiring as to 
every detail conducive to a perfect reunion. 

Last resolution offered was that eich and 
every member place upon his heart the great 
necessity for the adoption of the proposed 
amendment to the State Constitution, whereby 
the taking over of the Confederate Women's 
Home by the State is provided for, and by 
speeches and other demonstrations they pledged 
themselves and their influence for the resolu- 
tion. 

Closing feature of the reunion was a splendid 
recitation by Miss Sarah Maude Cox. of Tyler. 

After hand-shakings and many demonstra- 
tions of comradeship, taps were sounded, in the 
hearts of many, who will possibly meet no more 
in earthly reunion, and the .39th reunion of 
Hood's Texas Brigade adjourned to meet at 
Cameron, Texas, June 28 and 29th, 1911. 

Approved : — W. R. Hamby, 

President Hood's Texas Brigade Association. 

Attest:— 

E. K. GoREE, Secretary. 




E. K. GOREE, HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS 

Company H., F"ifth Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern 

Virginia. A Soldier Brave and True. Ex-President Hood's 

Texas Brigade Association. Secretary and 

Treasurer for Life 




ADDENDA 





CONFEDERATE HISTORY. 



General Grant is reported to have said : "No 
matter what the opportunities of the Demo- 
cratic party — it is sure to destroy them before 
the day of reckoning." 

Can it be said that the party has yet profited 
through the lapse of half a century? 

Fifty years have passed since that historic 
ante bellum election on November 4th, 18G0, 
that made Abraham Lincoln President of the 
United States. 

One wing of the Democratic party nominated 
Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois for President 
and Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia, for Vice 
President. 

Another wing of the same party nominated 
Jno. C. Breckenridge of Kentucky for Presi- 
dent, and General Joseph Lane of Oregon for 
Vice President. 

Another wing of the same party, calling 
themselves "Conservative Americans," nomi- 
nated John Bell of Tennessee, for President, 
and Edward Everett of Massachusetts, for Vice 
President. 

The party of the agitators, calling them- 
selves "Republicans," nominated Abraham 
Lincoln of Illinois, for President, and Hanni- 
bal Hamlin of Maine, for Vice President. 

Thus it will be seen that notwithstanding 
the awful gravity of the situation, the South 
put out three tickets against one. 

The Electoral College returned votes as fol- 
lows: 

180 for Lincoln and Hamlin. 
73 for Breckenridge and Lane. 
39 for Bell and Everett. 
12 for Douglas and Johnson. 

By a plurality count of the popular vote, Mr. 
Lincoln carried 18 States; Mr. Breckenridge, 
11; Mr. Bell, 3, and Mr. Douglas but 1. 

The eighteen States carried by Mr. Lincoln 
were every one north of what is known as 
"Mason and Dixon's Line," which proved that 
the election was entirely sectional and that the 
Agitators thereby declared their intention to 
continue their breach of faith towards the 
Southern States with a tendency to a centrali- 
zation of government as rendered their 1 ng:r 
continuation in the Federal Union perilous to 
their rights, security and safety. 

The popular vote cast for Mr. Lincoln in the 
aggregate amounted to 1,857,610; while the 
aggregate vote cast against him (divided be- 
tween the three other candidates), amounted 



to 2,804,560. This shows how different the 
result would have been if the South and its 
friends had united on one ticket. 

Even as it was, Mr. Douglas carried on the 
plurality count, but one State, Missouri, yet 
of the aggregate popular vote, he carried 1,- 
365,976. 

The eighteen States that voted for Mr. Lin- 
coln, under the plurality count of the popular 
vote, were: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu- 
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, 
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, 
California, Minnesota and Oregon. 

The eleven that voted for Mr. Breckenridge, 
were: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, IMississippi, 
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Texas. 

The three that voted for Mr. Bell, were: 
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. 

From the foregoing it will be seen that Mr. 
Lincoln did not receive the popular vote in 
but sixteen of the thirty-three States then con- 
stituting the Union ; so he had been constitu- 
tionally elected, without having received a ma- 
jority of the popular vote of the States or 
of the people. 

When the unfortunate result of the election 
was known, the people generally of the South- 
ern States, without respect to past party affili- 
ations, were thrown into the most intense state 
of excitement. Conventions were called in sev- 
eral of them to take action as to their future 
safety. 

South Carolina did not wait for the co-oper- 
ation of her sister Southern States ; she took 
the lead in the call for a separate State Con- 
vention, and on the 20th day of December, 
1860, her convention being in tession, passed 
the Ordinance of Secession. It was styled: 

"An ordinance to dissolve the Union be- 
tween the State of South Carolina and other 
States united with her under the compact, en- 
titled "The Constitution of the United States 
of America," and declared, "That the ordinance 
adopted by us in convention, on the 23rd day 
of May, in the year of our Lord, 1788, where- 
bv the Constitution of the United States of 
America was ratified, and also all acts and parts 
of acts of the General Assembly of this State, 
ratifying Amendments of the said Constitution, 
are hereby repealed ; and the Union now sub- 
sisting between South Carolina and other States 
under the name of tlie United States of Ameri- 
ca, is hereby dissolved." 



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Immediately on passing her "Ordinance of 
Secession," South Carolina invited all her 
Southern sister States who might secede, to 
join her in sending delegates to a Congress 
to be asFenbled in Montgomery, Alabama, on 
the 4th day of February, 18G1. 

Up to the date of assembling of the Con- 
federate Congress at Montgomery, there were 
seven seceding States, each of whom had passed 
the "Ordinance of Secession," name'y: Ala- 
bama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississipj i, 
South Carolina and Texas. 

All of the senators and members in the Fed- 
eral Congress of eich of the seceding States 
resigned their positions as soon as they were 
informed of the actions of their respective 
States — except one Bouligney of Louisiana. He 
held his seat until the expiration of his term. 

The seven seceding States sent to the Con- 
gress at Montgomery delegates equal in num- 
ber to their senators and representatives in 
the Congress of the United States. 

On the same day the South's Congress met 
in Montgomery, Ala., there was as-embled a 
pretended "Peace Congress" at Washington, to 
which the States of the South had sent many 
prominent men, only to return — more convinced 
than ever that every tie had been dissolved 
that bound the Union together. 

Representation of Texas at Montgomery 
Congress was as follows, of her best men: 

Thomas M. Ward. 
Williamson S. Oldham. 
John Gregg. 
John H. Reagan. 
W. B. Ochiltree. 
John Hemphill. 
Louis T. Wigfall. 

The other seceding States also sent their 
ablest statesmen. 

Alexanrler H. Stephens, in speaking of the 
body, said : 

"I never was associated with an abler body 
of men and taking it collectively, it had no 
superior. There was no one in it who, in 
ability, was not above the average of the mem- 
bers of the House of Representatives of any 
one of the sixteen Congresses I had been in at 
Washington; while there were several who 
might be justly ranked, for intellectual vigor, 
as well as acumen of thought and oratorical 
powers, among the first men of the continent 
at that time. They were not such men as revo- 
lutions or civil commotions usually bring to the 
surface. Thev were men of substance as well 
as of solid character — men of education, of 
rending, of refinement, and well versed in the 
principles of government. They came emphat- 



ically within the class styled by Carlyle, "earn- 
est men." Their object was not to tear down 
so much as it was to build up with the greater 
security and permanency. Their words were 
few and their debates characterized by brevity, 
point, clearness and force." 

Howell Cobb of Georgia, who had been Speak- 
er of the Thirty-first Congress, was made Presi- 
dent, and J. J. Hooper, of Alabama, Secre- 
tary. 

Their first act was the formation of a pro- 
visional government for the States thus as- 
sembled. The first result of their labors in this 
respect was a new Constitution to be of force 
for one year, which received the unanimous 
sanction of the States assembled, on the 18th 
day of February. 

The next step was the election of officers 
under that provisional government; the re- 
sult was the unanimous choice of Jefferson 
Davis of Mississippi, as President, and of 
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, Vice-Presi- 
dent. 

The inauguration took place at Montgomery, 
Alabama. Fcbruarv 18, 1861 — which date was 
the real birth of the Southern Confederacy. 

Meanwhile, Congress went on in the prepara- 
tion of a Constitution for a permanent gov- 
ernment, which was likewise unanimously 
adopted by the Congress. The Constitution for 
the permanent government was not to take ef- 
fect until February 22, 1862, at which time the 
nermanent government of the Confederate 
States of America would have been established 
through the election of a President and a Vice- 
President, elected for six years with a disquali- 
fication for re-election. 

Preamble for tl e "Constitution for the Pro- 
visional Government of the Confederate States 
of America," read as follows: 

"We, the Deputies of the Sovereign and In- 
dependent States of South Carolina, Georgia, 
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and 
Texas, invoking the favor of Almighty God, do 
hereby, in behalf of these States, ordain and 
establish this Constitution for the Provisional 
Government of the same; to continue one year 
from the inauguration of the Pre-ident, or until 
a permanent Constitution or Confederation be- 
tween the said States shall be put in operation, 
whichsoever shall first occur." 

Preamble for the "Permanent Constitution 
of the Confederate States of America," read 
difTcrcntly, as follows: 

"We. the people of the Confederate States, 
each State acting in its Sovereign and Inde- 
pendent character, in order to form a Perma- 
nent Federal Government, establish justice, in- 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



55 



sure domestic tranquility and secure the bless- 
ings of liberty to ourselves nnd to our postentj 
— invoking tne favor and guidance of Almighty 
God, do ordain and establish this Constituaon 
for the Confederate States of America." 

Tbe Constitution differed only from that of 
our fathers who founded our rights in the Fed- 
eral Constitution of 1787, in so far as it is ex- 
planatory of their well known intent. 

The Constitution for the Permanent Govern- 
ment was adopted unanimously by the seven 
States represented, on the 11th of March, 18131. 

Pre=idcnt Jefferson Davis organized his cab- 
inet as follows: 

Department of State — Robert Toombs of 
Georgia. 

Treasury Department — Christopher C. Mem- 
minger, South Carolina. 

Postmaster General — John H. Eeagan, Tex- 
as. 

Secretary of the Xavy — Stephen R. Mallory, 
Florida. 

Secretary of War — Leroy P. Walker, Ala- 
bama. 

Attorney General — Judah P. Benjamin, 
Louisiana. 

Active preparations for war began and the 
most hopeful peace lovers of the Union ac- 
knowledged that all hopes for peace had fled. 

At 4:30 a. m., April 12, 1861, Gen. Beaure- 
gard opened fire on Fort Sumrter. This was the 
beginning of a war between the States of the 
Federal Union, which has been truly character- 
ized as "one of the most terrible conflicts on 
record." The din of its carnage reached the 
remotest pirts of the earth, and the people of 
all nations looked on, for over four years, in 
wonder and amazement as to how so small a 
territory without population, money, clothes or 
provisions medicines or munitions of war, 
could, within a few miles of the capitol of a 
great nation, hold it at bay — and they were 
more amazed as the gigantic proportiors of 
the awful war loomed forth and its hideous 
engines of destruction of human life and ev- 
erything of human structure, were terribly dis- 
played in its sanguinary progress and horrible 
duration. 

Yes. truly, had the dove of peace departed 
and the eagles of war unloosed their bloody 
talons. 

"Strike — 'till the last armed foe expires; 
Strike — for your altars and your fires; 
Strike — for the green graves of your Sires, 
God and your native land !" 



President Lincoln made a hurry call three 
days after "Sumpter," for 75,000 troops, and 
convened Congress in extra session, to supply 
all the money and meet every demand ti crush 
the South. His demand on Virginia, Arkan- 
sas, North Carolina and Tennessee to furnish 
troops for the Union army sjmrred them to ac- 
tion, and each of the four passed ordinances of 
secession. Virginia (on April 17th), A kan- 
sas (on the 6th of May), Norih Carolina (on 
the 20th of May — the eighty-sixth ann versary 
of her celebrated Mecklenburg D clar ti n of 
Independence), and Tennessee (on the 8th day 
of June), by sovereign convfntions of the r 
people, withdrew from the Federal Union and 
svbsequently became separate members of the 
New Confederation of Confederate States. 

In response to President Liuco'n's call for 
troops, Gov. Letcher of Virginia, replied : "Vir- 
ginia will furnish no troops for any s -ch pur- 
pose — an object, which in my judgment, is not 
within the purview of the Constitution or the 
laws." Governor McGoffin of Ke itucky, re- 
plied: "Kentucky will furnish no tro'ps for 
the wicked purpose of subduing her sister 
Southern States." Governor Harris of Tennes- 
see, replied: "Tennessee will not furnish a 
'man for the purposes of coercion, but fifty 
thousand if necessary for the defense of our 
rights and those of our Soutl.ern broti:e:s.''' 

Proving what an influence "Virginia, the 
mother of Presidents," still held over the des- 
tiny of the Union, immediately after the seces- 
sion of the State, the seat of government of the 
Confe.'erate States was. on May "-'i. istji. irins- 
ferrcd from Montgomery to Richmond — the 
Capitol City of Virginia. 

The Congress at Montgomery 1 ad adopted a 
Confederate flaff, which differed hut litt'e from 
the United States "Stars and Stripes." Instead 
of thirteen stripes, it consi-tel of three large 
bars, the blue ground with stars being the same 
as the Federal flag. On the Confederate f ag 
there were seven stars, designating tl e num- 
ber of seceding Southern States that formed 
their Union. When Virginia, Arkansas. North 
Carolina and Tennessee seceded and joined the 
Confederation, four additional stars were ad- 
ded, making the entire number of seceding 
States eleven. 

Another battle flag was adopted after the 
first battle of Manassas, because it v as nl i^ost 
impossible in the smoke of battle to distinguish 
the stars and bars from the Federal stars and 
stripes. 

While it is tme only eleven States ever seced- 
ed, yet Kentucky and M'ssouri m^''e early 
efforts to do so; failing, they sent troops to 



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the Southern aimy and representatives to the 

Confederate ( oujitss. 

May 1, 1863, the Confederate Congress adopt- 
ed a flag to represent tlie thirteen States, there- 
by adding two more stars. An objection to 
this flag was that the preponderance of white 
ground made it too much resemble a flag of 
truce. March 4, 1864, still another flag was 
adopted witli a led stri|_e to i.elp relieve the 
white ground. With 1862 lie-^-^n our --eries of 
big battles that made the world tremble. In 
January, by the leeord, the Confederacy I ad in 
the field, distributed at various points, includ- 
ing all branches of the service, in round num- 
bers 300,000; while the Federals, in like m n- 
ner, and in like round number,-, had not less 
than 800,000. 

On February 22, 18G2, Mr. D:ivis ad Mr. 
Stephens were duly inaugurated President i^nd 
Vice-President of the Confederate States for 
six years, under the Constitution ioc permanent 
government. 

This much of Confederate history is given 
because so much tliat is wrong is tfught in our 
schools — and many intelligent persons do not 
know things right. It is a notable fact how 
great were the seven men Texas sent to the 



Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Ala- 
b;ini', February 4, 1861, and low maay out 
of that list of seven became identified with 
the Confederacy — and with Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade. 

Thomas M. Waul became a Brigadier Gen- 
eral. 

W. S. Oldham a member of the Confederate 
Congress. 

John Gregg a Brigadier General, command- 
ed Hood's Texas Brigade, and was killed at 
Datb.t^wn, Virginia. 

John H. Reagan became Postmaster General 
of the Confederacy in the Cabinet of Presi- 
dent Davis and was captured with his chief. 

President Davis was imprisoned at Fortress 
Munroe, and Judge Eeagan at Fort Warren. 

W. B. Ochiltree was a mem'ier of t e Con- 
ferlerate Congress and Colonel of a Texas regi- 
ment. 

John Hemphill was Chief Justice of Texas. 

Louis T. Wicfall was First Colonel 
First Texas Regiment, and First Brigadier 
General of Hood's Texas Brigade, which posi- 
tion he resigned to become a Coniederate Staies' 
senator. 



TEXAS WAR HISTORY. 



On the 2nd day of Februiry, 1861, the Se- 
cession Convention of Texas assembled at Aus- 
tin and passed an ordinance that closed with 
these words: "We, the delegates of the people 
of Texas, in convention assembled, have passed 
an ordinance dissolving all political connection 
with the Government of the United States of 
America, and the ])eople thereof, and confident- 
ly appeal to the intelligence and patriotism of 
the Freemen of Texas, to ratify the same at 
the ballot box on the 23rd day of the present 
month." Of this convention, Oram JI. Roberts 
was Piesident, and R. T. Brownrigg, Secretary. 
One hundred and sixty-five names of repre-en- 
tative men of Texas were signed to the Declara- 
tion. Seven members voted against the ordi- 
mance, but all of them served in the Southern 
army. Of the whole number of one hundred 
and seventv-two that founded the convention, 
one hundred and forty-five served in the Con- 
feder:ite army, those who did not were too old 
or physically unable to do duty. Seven of 
them became Generals, viz. : Allison Nelson, 
John Gregg, Wm. P. Hardeman, Jerome B. 
Robort-on, Wm. Reed Scurry, John A. Wharton 
and Joseph L. Hogg. 

Thirty rose to the rank of Colonel 
and that number were killed or died 



in service The convention adjourned to 
re-assemble on March the 2nd, the 2.5th an- 
niversary of Texas Independence, the day on 
which the Ordinance of Secession was to take 
effect, providing that it had been ratified by 
the people at the election of Februnrv 23rd. 
It was found that about three and one-half to 
one had voted for the ordinance; whereupon 
the President of the convent'on procliimed the 
result and declared Texas out of the Union. In 
the meantime various troops, bad been possess- 
ing all forts and munitions of war within reach. 
On February 18, 1861, Gen. David E. Twiggs, 
U. S. A., commanding Department of Texas 
and Thos. J. Devine, P. N". Luckett and S. A. 
Maverick, Commissioners on the part of Tex- 
as, s'smed a formal agreement at San Antonio 
providing for a peaceful evacuation of all the 
posts of Texas by the troops of the Uniled 
States, fill of wbich was effected p"acefully. 
A committee of thirteen wa's sent from the 
convention to inform Gov. Houston that by 
vote of the reople, Texas wa? again "a free, 
sovereign and independent State." 

The name "Confederate Stale?" was substi- 
tuted in th" State Constitnt'on for "T^ni*ed 
Stales." and all State and Countv ofTiccrs to 
take the oath to support the Constitution of 



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57 



the Confederate States. Twelve o'clock noon, 
March ICth, was fixed as the time and the con- 
vention hall the place at which all State offi- 
cers should take the oath. The first person to 
take the oath was a Northern man, Edward 
Linn, of Victoria, Spanish Translntoi' in the 
Land office. Mr. Linn was born and reared 
in the State of New York and cime to Texas 
in 183L District Judge Thomas J. Dovine 
administered the oath. Gov. Houston, E. W. 
Cave, his Secr-tiry of State, and Mr. A. B. Nor- 
ton, Adjutant General, refused to take the oath. 
Lieutenant-Governor Ed Clark, Comptroller C. 
B. Johns, Treasurer Cyrus H. Randolph, Land 
Commissioner Francis M. White, and every oth- 
er State officer, including Supreme and Dis- 
trict Judges and Chiefs of Bureaus, appeared 
and took the oath. 

END OF STRUGGLE. 

When Richmond was abandoned, President 
Davis and his Cabinet, with the Confederate 
Archives, attempted to move South, but they 
were pursued by so many bodies of trooy)S that 
they were captured at Irwinsville, Georgia, May 
10, 1865. President Davis was placed in irons 
at Fortress Munroe and Postmaster John H. 
Reagan, captured with him, was imrrisoned at 
Fort Warren, and Col. Francis R. Lubbock, of 
the President's staff, was imprisoned at Fort 
Delaware. 

As early as February, 1865, a start had 
begun in Richmond to move the seat of war 
further South, as the army had become too 
small to defend so much territorv. an^l Febru- 
ary 1, 1865, Dr. L. D. Hill of the" Fourth Texas 
Regiment, with other distinguished gentlemen, 
had been sent to Texas with many millions of 
Confederate money and postage stamps. Judge 
Reagan's children were sent unr'er the same 
escort. While no one knows for a certainty 
what views the President and heads of depart- 
ments had, the fact remains that not onlv the 
President, but many of his leaders did cnuns 1 
and attempt to reach the Trans-Mississippi 
Department — and surely their hope was to con- 
tinue the war. 

It was, however, all willed otherwise. The last 
battle of the war was foufrht on Texas soil 
below Brownsville on the Rio Grande at Pal- 
metto Ranch, on May 13, 1865. 

In due time all Texas troops and Texas mem- 
bers of Connre^s returned home — and the war 
east of the Mississippi was over. 

OFFICERS FROM TEXAS. 

Texas f''rnished to the Confederacy, General 
Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Corinth, 
April 6, 1862. 



Lieutenant-General John B. Hood, died in 
New Orleans after the war. 

MAJOR GENERALS. 

Samuel Bell Maxey, dead. 
John A. Wharton, dead. 
Thomas Green, dead. 

BRIGADIER GENERALS. 

1--Ben McCuIloch, dead. 

2— Louis T. Wigfall, dead. 

3 — Allison Nelson, dead. 

4 — Henry E. McCulIoch, dead. 

5^ — Joseph L. Hogg, dead. 

6 — G. H. Granburry, dead. 

7— Walter P. Lane, dead. 

8 — Thomas Harrison, dead. 

9 — James E. Harrison, dead. 
10 — John Gregg, deid. 
11 — Richard Waterhou=e, d-ead. 
12 — Jerome B. Robertson, dead. 
13 — Frank C. Armstrong, dead. 
14 — Felix H. Robertson, lives at Waco. 
15 — Arthur P. Brgby, lives at Hallettsville. 
16 — Elkanah Greer, dead. 
17— Hillary P. Mabrv, dead. 
18— Hamilton P. Bee, dead. 
19 — Xavier B. PeBray, dead. 
20— Richard M. Gano. dead. 
21 — Wm. P. Hardeman, dead. 
22 — Adam R. Johnson, lives at Burnet. 
23 — Wm. Henry Parsons, dead. 
24 — Lawrence Sullivan Ross, dead. 
25— Thomas W. Waul, dead. 
26 — Wm. H. Kinff, lives at Sulphur Springs. 
27— Wm. Steele, dead. 
28— Wm. Reid Scurry, dead. 
29 — Horace Randall, dead. 
30— John W. Whitfield, dead. 
31— P. C. Archer, dead. 
32— Matthew D. Ector, dead. 

COLONELS. 

l_John S. Ford. 

2 — James M. Norris. 

3 — James E. McCord. 

4 — Wm. C. Youns. 

5 — B. Warren Stone. 

6 — Wm. B. Sims. 

7— N. M. Burford. 

8— T. C. Hampe. 

9— N. H. Darnell. 
10— Benj. F. Terry. 
11— J. W. Speight. 
12— R. B. Hubbard. 
13 — Oram M. Roberts. 
14— W. B. Ochiltree. 
15— D. B. Culher-on. 
16— Roger Q. IVIills. 
17— Edward Clark. 
18 — Augustus Buchel. 



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19— N. P. Luckett. 
20— Charles L. Pyron. 
21— A. W. Terrell. 
22— Georse W. Baylor. 
23— Thoiiias S. Lubbock. 
24— David S. Terry. 
25 — Daniel Showalter. 
26— John C. Moore. 
27— Ashbel Smith. 
28 — George R. Reeves. 
29— R. T. P. Allen. 

30— Garland. 

31— Georsre T. Madison. 
32— Carillaus Miller. 
33 — Peter Hardeman. 
34 — Goorge Flournoy. 
35— A. W. Speight. 
36— Philip Crump. 
37— Matthew F. Locke. 
38— John H. Burnett. 
39— T. C. Bass. 
40 — George H. Sweet. 
41— John T. Coit. 
42— Wm. Fitzhugh. 
43— M. T. Joimson. 
44 — J. L. Camp. 
45 — John Huffman. 
46— Frank Taylor. 
47— James R. Taylor. 
48 — Peter Ros^. 
49— Enos W. Taylor. 
50 — Charles reJlorsc. 
51— Wm. P. Rogers. 
52 — James Duff. 
53— N. W. Battle. 
54— R. B. Younsr. 
55— John C. Burks. 
56 — A. 1\T. Alexander. 
57— R. H. Tavlor. 
58— J. G. Stevens. 
59— Hujrh McLeod. 
60 — Gu=tave Hoffman. 
61 — James Reiley. 
62 — John H. Brooeks. 
63— John R. Bavlor. 
64 — John Manshall. 
65 — Ipum Chi=um. 
66 — Joseph Bates. 
67 — Reuben R. Brown. 
68— George W. Carter. 
69— C. C. Gille'^pie. 
70— F. C. Wilkes. 
71— A. M. Hobby. 
72— Peter Woods. 
73— Lee M. Martin. 
74 — John P. Bane. 
75 — John P. Bass. 
76— R. M. Powell. 
77— John W. Dan-el. 
78— Harry McNeill. 



79— C. M. Winkler. 
80— B. F. Carter. 
81 — James H. Jones. 
82 — George W. Guess. 
83— H. M. Elmore. 
84 — Overton Young. 
85— W. H. Griffin. 
80- B. W. Watfon. 
87— Giles S. Boggs. 
88— James E. McCord. 
89— Nat Benton. 
90— Robt. H. Watson. 
91— R. H. Crur.'bv. 
92— Philip A. Work. 
93— F. L Malone. 
94— R. D. Stone. 
95— D. C. Giddings. 
96— Robert S. Gould. 
97 — James E. Shepard. 

TE.XANS IN FEDERAL ARMY. 

Oflficinl records show that there were nine- 
teen hundred and twenty, claiming to be fro-n 
Texas, enrolled in the Federal army during the 
war. They were enrolled in two regiments, 
were organized at Matamoras, in Mexico, and 
went by water to New Orleans, and thence to 
Louisiana, where they serve'l. Edmund J. 
Davis w-as Colonel of one regiment and John 
L. Haynes of the other. 

ABOLISH U. C. V. TITLES BY M. C. 

It is well that the titles of the real 
Generals and Colonels of the war from 
Texas have been given in this book, and 
should frequently be given elsTwhere, to dis- 
tinguish between the peace Generals and Col- 
onels of today. There is great injustice being 
done the real ofpicers of the Confederacy by 
the titles now given to all ranks in the United 
Confederate Veterans. Surely it dors not ^eem 
that real Confederate soldiers would be willing 
to so confuse history. We surely owe something 
to the gallant men who sleep under tie sod; 
officers wlio won their rank upon the liatt'e- 
field and became Colone's and Generals at the 
cannon's mouth. Much hns besn said and 
many resolutions offered to change th" pernici- 
ous custom, 1o no avail. It is hard 1n nnder- 
stand why the title of Comrrander, Adjutant, 
Aide Inspector, etc., would rot have fil!'>'l all 
the requirements of a camp of survivo'^s without 
usurping the t'tl<"s of the glorious deid . .) 

Read Constitution of Texas Uivi=ion of Unit- 
ed Confederate Veterans, paitieulirly Section 
4 thereof, and see how easily Generals and 
Colonels are turned out — once every year. One 
Major-Gencral, five Brigadier Genenls and 42 
Colonels. Liertenai!t-Co'onel= a-d JT.njors Tl era 
is nothing as low as a Captain now yet how 



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many of the most glorious this eaith ever saw 
went to their last home as Captains and Lieu- 
tenants during the war. Think how many 
years the U. C. V. has been organized, and 
at the rate of 48 titled officers each year — 
what an army of officers Texs has. By all 
manner of reason the mistake s'lould never 
have occurred. The Federal Army (G. A. R.), 
has never adopted senseless titles; thev value 
too highly the truth of histnry and t'e offi- 
cers and men who made it to cumber the earth 
with titled officers of same la^^k rs their dead 
comrade.?. It has been said that the IT. C. V. 
could not be kept up but for the titles, that 
neither State or General Reunion could be held 
without the officers, and but for them there 
would be no interest and the ladies would not 
attend. Were that so, then reunions had bet- 
ter cease altogether. For devotion to duty, use- 
fulness and glorious results the priva'e of the 
Confederate army ranked nil the titled offices 
and no reflection should be cast upon him now 
by those who claim to have ben Co' federate 
soldiers, yet must be called Gener.^ls and Col- 
onels to perform suppose 1 duty to dead 1 ero 
comrades. The words and actions of Ciptain 
Chilton have t'^e true ring about theui. Tliree 
months ago Dick Cowling Camp, at Houston, 
unanimously nominated him for Bria^adier Gen- 
eral for the first di'^trict and elected a strong 
delegation to see their nom'nation confirmed 
at McGregor State Reunion. Captan Chil- 
ton said : "I could not afford to give up my 
title as Captain to be cillp'l Oeneril. I won d 
not feel risjht and all would know I never had 
been a General. The fact 's it is a heap easier 
to be a General now than safe to have Veen a 
private then." Captain Chilton dec'ined. As 
Adjutant General of States, in the State Mili- 
tia, or en staff of Governor, and Sal- 
vation Army titles are all risht — but 
arrong t^ e ranks of the few =urv'vnr'! of 
the Confederacy — for Heaven's sake let us re- 
main where the war left us, content to hnve 
been a Confederate soldier, jealous of al' t'lat 
riffhtly belongs to us and de'ermined to k ep 
alive the flowers of historv that adorn the 
names of our dead comrades. The G. A. R. 
condemns all ftles in their camps — let t'e 
Un'ted Confederate Veterans be as sensible in 
theirs. 

Another instance in record of Comrade 
Chilton tells how devoted he is to Hood'? 
Texas Bri-ade, and how litt'e he vnlue-- a title 
when measured with love. Over twenty vears 
ago when the roster of John B. Hood's Cau p 
at Austin was published, there appeired among 
its members, the nam", "F. B. CMUon. Pri- 
vate. Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment, 
Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Vir- 



ginia." Captain Chilton at that tint was at 
the head of both the State and the Southern 
Inter-state Immigration Bureaus, and Gover- 
nor Roes dropjiing into his office, askeci h'm 
why it was he re^iistered in his camp as a pri- 
vate, when all knew him to be an officer of 
the Confederacy. He replie 1 at on^n : "1 had 
rather be known to be, while living, and ho 'or:'d 
for having been, when deid — a priva e in 
Hood's Texas Brigade than to possess the high- 
est title elsewhere." This same spiiit should 
actuate us all and so gauge our love for the 
lives and titles of the dead defenders of the 
South. Hoori's Texas Brigade will celebrate 
its 40th Annual Reunion at Cameron, Te as, 
June 2Sth and 2!1th, 1911, and all those years 
it« Furvivors have staunchly I eld toget' er and 
their reunions have heen the verv finest at ev- 
ery town that has entertained them, and their 
officers are the same as any little debating 
society — a President and a Secretary. 

All in all it does not seem that a srood soldier 
would lay down the most honorab'e po ition 
in the Confe^'erate army — i worthy pr'vate — - 
to accept any fictitious title nearly half a 
century afterwards. There is a vast diffrre'ce 
between war and peace titles, and every soldier 
ought to object to their confusion. 



FROM THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF 
THE NORTHERN ARMY 

Northern enlistment _ 2,272,333 

Whites from the South „ 316,421 

Negroes 186 017 

Indians 3,530 

Total 2,778,301 

Total Southern army 600,000 

North's numerical superiority 2,178,304 

In Northern army there were : 

Germans 176.800 

Irish 144,200 

British Americans 53,500 

Engli«h Americans 45,500 

M'scelhneous nationalities 74,900 

Negroes 1 8 6 ,0 1 7 

Total foreigners and negroes 680,917 

Total of Southern soldiers 600,000 

Excess of forc'sfners and negroes 

over Southern army 80,917 



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Southern men in Northern army 316,42 1 

Foreigners in Northern army 494,900 

Negroes in Northern army 186,017 

Total amalgamation 997.341 

Southern army 600,000 

Amalgamation in excess of South- 

ern army 397,341 

Aggregate Federal army. May 1, 1865...1,000,516 
Agffres;ate Confederate army, Mav 1, 

1865 - ■ 133,433 

TROOPS IN FOLLOWING BATTLES. 

Confederates. Federals. 

Seven days' fight 80,835 115.249 

Manassas 35,255 87,164 

Chancellorsville 57,213 131.660 

Fredericksburg 78,110 110,000 

Gettysburg 62,000 95.000 

Chiekqmauga - 44,000 65.000 

Wilderness 63,987 141,160 

Federals in Confederate prisons 270,000 

Confederates in Federal prisons 220,000 

Confederates died in Federal nrisons... 26.436 

Federals died in Confederate Prisons... 22,570 

south's glorious record. 

North had an army of 2,178,304 

South had only - -... - 600,000 

There were 80,917 more foreigners and ne- 
groes than whole Southern army; there were 
397,341 more foreigners, negroes and men from 
the South than whole Southern army, and yet 
it took the whole world four vears to get from 
Washington to Richmond. They were nearly 
2 to 1 in every big battle; one side well fed, 
paid and clothed, the other naked and starved. 



No wonder the courts, the people, the world 
say now the South was right, and its history is 
no longer a sealed book. 



PENSIONS. 

Possibly the most stupendous wonder of 
mathematics and stretch of elasticism is demon- 
strated in the Pension Bureau of the Federal 
Government of today. The war has been over 
more than forty-five yeirs. The Confederacy 
had only a total of 600,000 soMiers during the 
entire war, and yet there is still one million pen- 
sions beiuCT paid by the government to those who 
opposed this little band. Over one hundred and 
fifty million dollars being annually paid, nearly 
half a century afterwards, by a government 
whose magnificently equipped army of over two 
million men were he'd at bay for over four 
years by a total of 600,000 American soldiers. 

Veiily, in their Pers'on Bureau of such mam- 
moth proportions, in their beautiful cemeteriea 
where sleep their countless thousands and with 
their masrnificent monuments that dot the whoie 
of the Union, they are indelibly writing in char- 
acters that will never die the imperishable his- 
tory of the Southern Confederacy. Truly none 
can or should glory in the death of their fellow- 
man, and it is unreasonable that aught should 
e.\i=t in heart of the true, whether North or 
South, that could ever disturb our relations as 
one people, under one flag, and with one alle- 
giance in heart and deed. Let the North adorn 
its cemeteries, laud its dead and build its monu- 
ments, for it would be recreant to every noble 
feeling if it did not; and let the South in like 
spi it dn the same, for are we not one people and 
one country? But if such be the case, then the 
Pension Bureau of today is a blot on the govern- 
ment. 



LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED 

Of Hood's Texas Brigade as far as was Possible to Decipher the Faded Records on File Among 
Confederate Records in the War Department at Washington, D. C. 



There is published herewith a most ap- 
pallinff document. So far as it goes it is a 
partial casualty list of First, Fourth and Fifth 
Texas Regiments. A foolish objection was 
raised to its publication, "because it is incom- 
plete, fragmentary, hardly gives half the battles 
and but few skirmishes; does not give near the 
los-cs of any regiment ard almost none of the 
Fourth Texas." Its incompleteness is to be re- 
gretted, but constitutes a powerful reason for its 
preservation. Few living people ever saw a list 



of such awful mortality. Comrades themselves 
who have rever sren it will wonder as they 
read, and the world must stand aghast when 
face to face with what they could not believe if 
s'"))lv told to tlcm. .Again. tho\i£rh sad that 
Washington records are so defaced that no regi- 
ment can have a true tale told ; and the Fourth 
regiment with ahrost its entire record r'e-troyed 
— should that keep us from doing all justice 
possible to our living and dead who so freely 
shed their blood for our beloved cause, and deter 



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us from giving to the worlrl an insight as to 
how terrible war is, and how Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade bled and died ? Many a comrade now can 
find no proof as to where and when he was 
wounded or prove his assertions as to his com- 
rades. The following casualty list, imperfect as 
it is, will fill a big gap in our history and give 
satisfaction to many a dead comrade's familv. 
Eead it and know that it does not tell the half 
as to any regiment, and that the Fourth Texas 
fought, bled and died as did the First and Fifth. 
This list is published for anotlier reason: Many 
names on Washington War Department Rec- 
ords are spelt wrons; and many are guessed at. 
Seeing this list will help all survivors at n?vt 
reunion at Cameron, Texas, June 28 and 29, 
1911, to make needed corrections, and it is 
hoped other publications will follow that will, as 
far as i cssible, remedy all mistakes. If we 
don't begin to try hard now, we will surely 
never leave correct history behind us. 



CASUALTIES. 



List of Casualties in the First Texas Regiment Com- 
mencing with the Battle of Eltham's Landing, and 
Ending with the Battle of Sharpsburg. 



FIELD AND STAFF. 

Lt. Col. H. H. Black, killed at Eltham's 
Landing, May 7, 1862. Col. A. T. Rainey, 
wounded at Gaines' Mill. June 27, 1862. Sergt. 
Maj. A. M. Horton, killed at Manassas, Aug. 
29, 1862. MaJ. Matt Dale, killed at Sharps- 
burg, Sept. 17, 1862. Adj. W. Shropshire, 
wounded at Shar]isburg, Sept. 17, 1862, and 
still in the hands of the enemy. 

eltham's landing, may 7, 1862. 
Col. A. T. Rainey, comdg. 

Field and Staff— Killed : Lt. Col. H. H. 
Black. 

Company A, Lt. J. Waterhouse comdg — Kill- 
ed : Privates J. W. Etly, Thos. Mahon.^T. Set- 
zer, H. H. Hinnant. Wounded : Lt. W. W. Lan- 
ey; Privates Geo. L. Rogers, Pat Higgins, Hugh 
Hennesy. In action : Officers, 3 ; men, 40. 

Company B, Lt. R. J. Harding comdg — In 
action : Officers, 2 : men, 13. 

Company C, Capt. B. F. Perry comdg — 
Killed: Lt. H. E. Decatur. Wounded: Corpl. 
R. B. Donnolly ; Privates J. W. Trotter, Jo Tay- 
lor. In action : Officers, 2 ; men. 47. 

Company D, Capt. W. M. Hewitt comdg — 
Killed : Private C. F. Coy. Wounded : Corpl. J. 
F. McDowell, Private J. W. Smith. In action: 
Officers, 3 ; men, GO. 



Company E, Capt. F. Y. Bass comdg — In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 40. 

Company F, Capt. P. A. Work comdg — 
Killed : Private James Bush. Wounded : Sergt. 
R. B. May, Private E. T. Stedman. In action: 
Officers, 3; men, 32. 

Company G, Lt. E. S. Jamison comdg — 
Killed : Private Martin O'Brien. Wounded : 
Privates R. C. McKnight, M. A. Knox. In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 30. 

Company H, Capt. W. H. Gaston comdg — 
Killed : Lt. John L. Spencer ; Privates S. B. 
Cornwell. W. A. Hosea, D. J. Hill, P. W. Mills. 
Wounded : Privates H. L. Martin, J. J. Foster. 
In action : Officers, 4 ; men, 66. 

Company I, Capt. R. W. Cotton comdg — In 
action: Officers, 3; men, 32. 

Company K, Captain B. F. Benton comdg — 
Wounded : Private Jos. Lane. In action : Offi- 
cers, 2 ; men, 40. 

Company L, Capt. A. C. McKeen, comdg — 
Killed : Privates Jos. F. Brown, Chas. L. 
Schadt. Wounded : Privates Frank Nichols, S. 
D. Simms, John Coffee. In action: Officers, 4; 
men, 71. 

Total— Killed, 15. Wounded, 19. Inaction: 
Officers, 33 ; men, 471. 

SEVEN PINES, MAY 31 AND JUNE 1, 1862. 

Col. A. T. Rainey comdg. 

Company A, Capt. G. T. Todd comdg — In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 30. 

Company B, Capt. R. J. Harding comdg — In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 39. 

Company C, Capt. D. K. Rice comdg — 
Wounded: Private H. W. Smith. In action: 
Officers, 4 ; men, 30. 

Company D, Capt. U. S. Connolly comdg — 
Wounded : Privates J. T. Dickson, W. L. Lock- 
ett. In action : Officers, 3 ; men, 47. 

Company E, Capt. F. Y. Bass comdg — In 
action : Officers, 4 ; men, 33. 

Company F, Lt. H. Snow comdg — In action: 
Oft'icers, 3 ; men, 40. 

Company G, Capt. John R. Woodward comdg 
— Wounded : Private F. M. Mathews. In action : 
Officers, 4 ; men, 80. 

Company H, Lt. Bedford Parks comdg — In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 46. 

Company I, Lt. J. L. Sheridan comdg — In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 48. 

Company K, Lt. J. H. Massey comdg — 
Wounded: Private Barney McNelly. In action: 
Officers, 2 ; men, 36. 

Company L, Capt. W. A. Bedell comdg — 
Wounded : Privates J. W. Brown, W. A. Shel- 
ton. In action : Officers, 4 ; men, 66. 

Total — Wounded, 6. In action: Officers, 
35 ; men, 495. 



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GAINES' FARM, JUNE 27, 1862. 

Col. A. T. Eainey comdg. until wounded, after 
which Lt. Col. P. A. Work comdg. 

Field and Staff— Wounded : Col. A. T. 
Eainey. 

Company A, Lt. G. B. Thomp=on comd':; — 
Killed : Sergt. J. K. Crawford, Jr. Wounded : 
Privates J. K. Wright, Max Jacoby, B. R. Lain. 
In action : Officers, 2 ; men, 25. 

Company B. Lt. J. L Shotwell comdg — 
Killed : Sergt. John Probert. Wounded : Corpl. 
J. M. Canterberry ; Privates F. M. Carr, M. A. 
Diinnam. Wm. McDonald, W. 0. Pankey. In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 44. 

Company C, Lt. Wm. B. Nadel comdg — 
Wounded: Sergts. M. J. Giles. 0. G. Arm- 
strong ; Corpl. J. Winn. In action : Officer, 1 ; 
men, 19. 

Company T>, Capt. IT. S. Connolly comdg — 
Killed : Private A. Dennis. Wounded : Privates 
W. W. Murray, D. T. Simms. In action : Offi- 
cers, 4 ; men, 50. 

Company E. Lt. B. W. Webb comdg— Killed : 
Sergt. J. A. Lawson. Wounded : 0. Serst. J. 
W. Smith, Corpl. W. C. Scott: Privates W. 
Campbell, C. W. Word. In action: Officers, 2; 
men, 24. 

Company F, Capt. S. A. Wil=nn comdg — 
Killed : Privates W. A. Allen. John .\mbrn?e, 
Duncan D. McMillan, Burwell J. Holliman. 
Wounded : Lt. Henry Snow ; Privates L. S. 
Jones, Pobert Hooker, Tliomas Eskrid^e. ]\Ior- 
ris F. Cryer, C. G. McRae. W. F. Scott. Henry 
Harwell. In action: Officers, 3; men, 28. 

Company G, Lt. E. S. Jamison comdg — 
Killed: Private C. W. Woodhouse. Wounded: 
Lt. E. S. Jamison, Private R. C. McKnight. In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 45. 

Company H, Lt. Bedf'ird Parks comdg — 
Killed : Privates, J. M. Dobertv. J. J. Foster, 
J. B. Hanks, W. L. Lee. Wounded : Corpl. A. 
J. Fry; Privates Geo. Hollin^sworth, F. M. 
Embry. J. S. Eudd, N. A. Menthenhall. In 
action : Officers, .3 ; men. 40. 

Company I, Lt. J. L. Sheridan corndsr — 
Killed: Privates 0. H. Bovkin, W. G. Morris, 
L. W. Manninsr, A. ]\ront<rnmerv. Wounded : 
Lts. J. L. Sheridan, W. R. Wall : Sergts. J. H. 
Foster. O. 0. Wagnon : Privates D. B. Bush, E. 
B. Andrews. D. W. Brown, J Delonsr, L. J. 
Fitts, W. J. L. Harris, E. Montgomery, S. H. 
Oliphant, S. 0. Foster. In action: Officers, 3; 
men, 42. 

Company K, Capt. B. F. Benton comdg — 
Killed: Cant B. F. Benton, Corpl. W. J. 
Chambers; Privates Lewis J. Mayo, J. W. Coe. 
Wounded : Lt. Jas. Waterhouse, Sergt. T. A. 
Ardray. Corpl. W. J. Curerton ; Privates W. W. 
Gray,'G. W. Mencfee, H. C. Powell, A. J. 



Proselcr. In action: Officers, 2; men, 35. 

Company L, Capt. W. A. Bedell comdg — 
Killed: Private John Poupart. Wounded: 
Cori 1. J. L. Townsend (before recovering from 
wounds, died of typhoid fever) ; Privates Jos. 
Xagle. Sid B. Smith. In action: Officers, 4; 
men, 60. 

Total— Killed. 23. Wounded, 54. In action: 
Officers, 28; men, 412. 

MALVERN HILL, JULY 1, 1862. 

Lt. Col. P. A. Work comdg. 

Company A, Lt. G. B. Thompson comdg — In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 20. 

Company B, Capt. R. J. Harding comd? — 
Killed: Private^ J. E. IVlcClenahan, Z. Wil- 
liams, Thop. McNally, J. S. Dortch. Wounded: 
Privates E. B. Leave, A. Trinkman, G. W. 
Lewis, Wm. Garner. In action: Officers, 4; 
men, 35. 

Company C. Lt. Wm. B. Nadel comda: — 
Wounded: 0. Serct. J. W. Trotter; Privates T. 
J. Calhoun, G. W. McNew, H. F. M. Freeman. 
In action : Officers, 1 ; men. 13. 

Company D, Capt. U. S. Connolly comdg — 
Wounded: Private E. C. Powell. In action: 
Officer?, 4; men, 45. 

Company E, Lt. B. W. Webb comdg— 
Wounded: Private J. K. Norwood. In action: 
Officers, 3 ; men, 2. 

Company F. Capt. S. A. Wilson comdg — 
Killed : Private Jacob Benedict. Wounded : 
Privates E. T. Stedman, U. M. Gilder, Addison 
Pate. In action : Officers. 2 ; men, 15. 

Company G, Lt. B. A. Campbell comdg — In 
action : Officer. 1 ; men, 40. 

Company H, Capt. W. H. Gaston comdg — 
Wounded: Private D. C. Stewart. In action: 
Officers, 3 ; men. 29. 

Company I. Private H. N. Jones comdg — 
Wounded : Privates D. N. McLean, T. A. 
Hanks, F. M. Williams, G. N. Weatherhead. In 
action: Men. 18. 

Company K, Private Sam F. Patton comdg 
— Killed: Private Joseph Lane. Wounded: 
Corpl. C. W. Fenley, Private F. C. McMahon. 
In action: Men. 20. 

Comrany L, Lt. J. C. S. Thompson comdg — 
Wounded:' Capt. W. A. Bedell, Corpl. R. S. 
Robinson. In action : Officer-, 4 ; men, 46. 

Total— Killed, 6. Wounded. 22. In action: 
Officers. 24; men, 283. 

freeman's ford, august 22, 1862. 
Lt. Col. P. A. Work comdg. 
Field and Staff— Killed : Maj. Matt Dale 
(killed at Sharpsburg). 

Company D — Wounded : Private W. L. Dun- 
man. 



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Total — Killed, 1. Wounded, 1. In action: 
Officers, 28 ; men, 382. 

THOROUGHFARE GAP, AUGUST 28, 1862, 

Lt. Col. p. A. Work, comdg. 
Present: Officers, 29; men, 367. 

MANASSAS, AUGUST 29 AND 30, 1862. 

Lt. Col. p. A. Work comdg. 

Company' A, Capt. G. T. Todd comdg — 
Wounded : Lt. H. H. Robinson ; Privates Hugh 
Dougherty, E. P. Derrick. In action: Officers, 
3; men, 20. 

Company B, Capt. R. J. Harding comdg — 
Wounded : Corpl. J. P. Stevens. In action : 
Officers, 3 ; men, 24. 

Companv C, Lt. Wm. B Nadel comdg — 
Killed : Privates W. Vincent, Ed Ashley. In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 17. 

Company D, Lt. J. M. Thomas comdg — 
Wounded : Sergt. J. A. Blackwell, Private A. 
Miles. In action : Officer. 1 ; men, 30. 

Companv E, Lt. B. W. Wobb comdij— Killed : 
Corp). R. B. Stephens. Private D. M. Walker. 
Wounded: Serst. Y. J. Steel, Private J. W. 
Webb. In action : Officers, 2 ; men, 28. 

Companv F, Captain S. A. Wilson, comdg — 
Killed: Sergt. A. j\r. We=t. Wounded: Corpl. 
J. W. Pooll; Private Morris T. Crier. In action: 
Officers, 2 ; men, 15. 

Company G, Lt. B. A. Campbell comdg — 
Wounded : Corpl. Sein Black. In action : Of- 
ficer, 1, men, 35. 

) Company H. Capt. W. H. Gaston comdg — 
Killed: Privates Theo. Oldham. P. M. Stien- 
cipher. Wounded : Sergt. J. C. Hollingsworth ; 
Privates J. A. Graham, J. E. Sides," W. N. 
Haynes. J. A. Knight. In action : Officers, 2 ; 
men, 20. 

Company I, Capt. R. W. Cotton commanding 
—Killed: Private P. F. Renfro. Wounded': 
Private J. M. Corley. In action: Officer, 1; 
men, 30. 

Company K, Capt. J. H. Ma=sey comdg — 
Wounded : Sergt. R. T. Conner. In "action : Of- 
ficers, 3; men, 33. 

Company L, Capt. W. A. Bedell comdg — 
Wounded: Lt. J. M. Baldwin. Sergt. W. P. 
Randall, Private E. C. McCorquodale. lu 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 47. 

Companv M, Capt. H. Ballinger comd? — 
Killed: Private W. T. Redden." Wounded: 
Private J. M. Motes. In action: Officers, 3; 
men, 40. 

Total— Killed, 9. Wounded, 22. In action : 
Officers, 27; men, 339. 



BOONSBOROUGH GAP, SEPTEMBER 14, 1862. 

Lt. Col. P. A. Work comdg. 

Company D — Wounded : Sergt. C. S. Barron. 
Total — Wounded, 1. In action: Officers, 
33 ; men, 274. 

SHARPSBURG, SEPTEMBER 17, 1862. 

Lt. Col. P. A. Work comdg. 

Company A, Capt. G. T. Todd comdg— 
Killed: Sergt. James C. Hill, Private C. D. 
Jones. Wounded: Capt. G. T. Todd; Privates 
H. J. Epperson, G. W. Armstrong, J. K. Ma- 
lone, Green Baker, T. E. Brewer, E. P. Der- 
rick, W. F. McLenden, W. Whitaker, B. E. 
Lain. In action : Officer, 1 ; men, 12. 

Companv B, Lt. J. I. Shotwell comdg — 
Killed : Private A. Trinkman. Wounded : Lt. 
J. I. Shotwell ; Sergts. C. W. Butler. Jolm Vic- 
torv ; Privates M. B. Anderson, G. W. Barefield, 
B. L. Bowling. R. R. Choate, G. H. John=on, S. 
H McGee, W. 0. Pankey, S. J. Woodward. In 
action: Officers, 4; men, 13. 

Company C, Capt. D. K. Rice comdg — 
Killed : Lt. F. L. Hoffman ; Privates Charles 
Watson, G. L. Gage. Wounded : Privates W. T. 
Stamper, G W. McManus, W. B. Vinson. In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 6. 

Company D, Capt. U. S. Connolly comdg — 
Killed : Privates E. B. Brown, W. C. Jackson, 
W. R. Jackson. Wounded: Sergt. W. A. T. 
Oliver; Privates J. T. Dickson, J. P. Dunklin, 
J. F. Miles, H. E. McCov, E. C. Powell, D. W. 
Bartlett. L. W. Thomas, J. P. Wood. In action : 
Officer, 1 ; men, 21 

Company E, Lt. B. W. Webb comdg— Killed 
Lt. Clinton Perry ; Corpl. H. E. Perrv, Private 
Wm. Campbell. ' Wounded : Lts. B. W. Webb, 
Chas. Woodson; 0. Sergt. J. W. Smith; Pri- 
vates J. D. Campbell, M. Gillette, G. F. Heard, 
J. H. Hendrick, R. J. Marshall, E. 0. Perry, 
S. F. Perry. J. F. Rudd, T. W. Willin^ham, S. 
T. Watson, Sam Braziel, R. S. Clark. In action: 
Officers, 3; men, 18. 

Company F, Capt. S. A. Wilson comdg — 
Killed: Lt. Pern- RunneHs; Privates Oscar 
Felrs, Wm. F. Scott. Wounded: Capt. S. A. 
Wilson ; 0. Sergt. J. E. Ferryman, Sergt. Amos 
W. A. Rountree. In action : Officers, 2 ; men, 
7. 

Company G, Lt. E. S. Jamison corndsr, Capt. 
J. R. Woodward actins; major — Killed : Sersrt. 
M. M. Files; Corpl. B. A. Hallum ; Privates 
Smith Bottoms, J. M. Corder, C. R. McFarland, 
A. J. Posev, R. Butler. Wounded : Lts. E. S. 
Jamison. T. J. Rose; Privates F. J. Watts, 
James Ward, M. A. Knox, J. W. Mathews, S. 



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Q. Blackshear. Missing, supposed killed : Sergt. 
M. J. Aspley ; Privates John Cone, Z. W. Cant- 
ley, A. M. Mathews. In action: Officers, 3; 
men, 24. 

Company H, Lt. John Stevenson comdsr — 
Killed: Lt. R. H. Gaston; Sergts. J. C. Hol- 
lingsworth, J. H. Marshall; Privates W. Hol- 
lintrsworth, A. Ander.=on, J. G. Tippen. Wound- 
ed r Corpl. E. F. Ezell ; Privates J. A. Counts 
G. W. Culpepper, C. S. Bolton, J. M. Herring- 
ton, J. R. Jones, H. G. Hickman, Caleb Mc- 
Bride, W. S. Denough, L. L. Evens, A. C. 
Strother, W. L. Williams, N. HoUingsworth. In 
action : Oflicers, 2 ; men, 20. 

Company I, Capt. R. W. Cotton comdg— 
Killed: Capt. R. W. Cotton; Privates F. M. 
Bo.x, A. A. Congleton, L. J. Fitts, T. J. Cook, 
D. Hale, W. M. Payne. Wounded : Lt. J. H. 
Wooters; Sergts. R. C. Mitchell, A. A. Aldrich; 
Corpl. W. D. Pritchard ; Privates W. A. House, 
J. S. Harwell, Jos. Rudicil, H. C. Patrick, M. 
Youngblood, M. Reeve?, N. M. Berryman, J. H. 
Sheridan, H. N. Jones. In action: Officers, 2; 
men, 22. 

Company K, Capt. J. H. Massey comdg.— 
Killed: Lts. James Waterhouse, Sam. F. Pat- 
ton ; Private Jes=e M. Hail. Wounded : Cayjtain 
J. H. Massey; Privates S. M. Day, W. W. Gray, 
0. T. Hanks, E. G. Miller, H. E. Mo?ley, J. 0. 
Noble, W. 0. Quinn, J. N. Ruddel. In action : 
Officers, 3 ; men, 16. 

Company L, Capt. W. A. Bedell comdg— 
Killed: Lt. J. C. S. Thompson; Sergt. S. A. 
Carpenter; Corp's. Wm. Zimmer, Robert Jacor- 
lef; Privates George Bass, Jacob Frank. 
Wounded: Capt. W. A. Bedell, Corpl. John 
Hanson, Privates Joseph AUsbrook, S. T. Bless- 
ing, Henry Cohen, J. P. Gillis, C. B. Hallcck, 
W. Hoskins, Austin Jones, C. H. Kingsley, Wil- 
liam Leach, H. B. McGar, Jas. Nagle, Jas. 
Eouske, J. M. Smith, Fred Schwarting, J. 
Welch, Wm. Yoimg. In action: Officers, 3; 
men, 28. 

Company M, Lt. T. P. Sanford comdg— 
Killed : Lt. T. P. Sanford ; Sergt. S. D. Roach ; 
Privates J. T. Bowman, Joshua Boon, W. J. 
Story. Wounded: Capt. H. Ballinger; Corpl. 
R. 0. Bennett; Privates M. A. Dunham, James 
Bass, James Day, J. T. Evans, Oliver JIcBride, 
H. C. Stewart, J. R. Carlton, W. C. Evans, E. 
B. Eaves. W. J. Goodson, John Lancaster, C. 
Murray, E. Pope, W. J. Towns, A. Walter. In 
action: Officers, 2; men, 31. 

Total— Killed, 49. Wounded, 131. Missing, 
4. In action: Officers, 26; men, 21S. 



FREDERICKSBURG, DECEMBER 13, 1862. 

Lt. Col. P. A. Work comdg. 
Present : Officers, 31 ; men, 380. 

KILLED IN SKIRMISHES. 

Company E — Feb. 28, 1862, at Occoquan, 
Private James Spratling. June 3, 1862, in front 
of Richmond, Private D. D. Davis. 

RECAPITULATION. 

Battle— Kill'd W'ded. M'ss'g. 

West Point (Eltham's) 16 19 

Seven Pines - 6 

Gaines' Farm - 23 55 

Malvern Hill 6 22 

Freeman's Ford 1 

Thoroughfare Gap 

Manassas 10 22 

Boonsborough Gap 1 

Sharpsburs 50 132 4 

Fredericksburg 

Miscellaneous Skirmishes 2 

Grand Total 105 260 4 

P. A. Work, 
Lt. Col. Comdg. First Tex. Regt. 
A. P. Forsyth, Lt. and A. Adjt. 
Camp near Fredericksburg, Va., Jan. 29, 1863. 



LIST OF CASUALTIES 

Of the First Regiment Texas Volunteer Infantry from 
September 19, 1863, to April 9, 1864. 

CHICKAMAUGA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 19 AND 20, 

1863. 

FIELD AND STAFF. 

Capt. D. K. Rice, actins Col.; Capts, Hardin 
and Todd actg. field officers; A. P. Forsyth, 
Adjt. 

Field and Staff— Wounded : Capt. D. K 
Rice, taken prisoner and since escaped. 

Company A, Lt. W. W. Laney comdg — 
Killed: F. E. Blackburn, Hugh Dougherty, 
Wounded: Lt. W. W. Laney, Lt. H. H. Rob- 
inson, Sergt. J. T. Gray, Sergt. A. Campbell, 
Sergt. E. D. Smith, Corpl. T. E. Brewer; Pri- 
vates T. B. Allen, J. C. Veal. Missing: Corpl. 
J. C. Hawkins. 

Company B, Lt. W. F. Walker comdg — 
Killed: Sergts. A. D. Sanderson, J. P. Stev- 
ens; Privates R. R. Choates, M. E. Donntlly, 
G. H. Johnson. Wounded : Sergts. M. Kirk- 
sey, G. W. Barefield ; Private J. M. Canterbury. 

Company C, Lt. Buckner comdg — Killed: 
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G. Melnnis ; Privates J. P. Neil, S. Lassiter, J. 
W. Armstrong, J. Rainey; Sergt. Searles. 

Company D, Capt. H. E. Moss comdg — 
Killed: Lt. J. M. Thomas; Privates W. 0. 
Moss, J. J. Durham, W. H. Oliver. Wounded: 
Sergts. E. C. Powell, A. J. Wood ; Privates A. 
Miles, J. C Robinson, W L. Durham, W. M. 
Snow, J. P. Snelgrove. 

Company E, Capt. B. W. Webb comdg — 
Wounded : Sergt. J. A. Lindsay ; Privates E. 0. 
Perry, R. J. Marshall, W. D. Prescott. 

Company F, Lt. Rigsby comdg — Killed : E. 
Cryer, Corpl. C. H. Hicks. Wounded : Sergts. 
J. E. Perrvman, W. F. Smith, B. Bradhum ; 
Corpl. H. C Jones ; Privates J. A. Tiner, W. M. 
Gilder, Wm. Pool. 

Company G, Capt. E. S. Jamison comdg — 
Wounded :Lt. W. P. Minatt; Sergt. Geo. Kyle; 
Corpls. E. Dagg. W. T. Hazlewood, Ira Parker; 
Privates Lewis Grooms, H. F. Bradley, G. B. 
Doves, H. Donald, T. F. Main, N. t). Read, 
A. T. Ratcliff, J. C. Stinson, A. J. Watts; Lt. J. 
J. Quarles; Privates J. R. Kaling, J. W. 
Mathews, E. Newsom, T. J. Read, J. M. Stal- 
cup, A. Thompson, J. T. Woodhouse. Missing: 
Sergt. W. C. Wren; Privates S. R. Burroughs, 
M. Hamby. 

Company H, Capt. B. Parks comdg — 
Wounded: Capt. Parks; Lt. Torbert; Sergts. J. 
E. Hickman, G. W. Small; Corpls. I. E. 
Evans, M. A. Berry. Killed : Private N. A. 
Mendenhall. Wounded : J. W. Baldwin, G. W. 
Lumpkin, A. L. Scott, J .P. Smith. 

Company I, Capt. J. H. Wooters comdg — 
Killed : Sergts. J. H. Foster, C. C. Morris ; Pri- 
vates Jos. Ruidicil, W. J. Salter. Wounded : 
Sergts. D. B. Bush, R. F. Emmors ; Corpls. 
Dranhorn, Boysdon ; Privates S. C. Foster, Jno. 
Harris, G. P. Mann, Jno. A. Morris, F. M. Mor- 
ris, J. W. Norfod, A. D. Oliphant. Missing: 
Privates N. B. Mason, G. M. Wetherhead. 

Company K, Capt. J. H. Massey comdg— 
Killed: h. M. Mason, S. E. F. Burnaman. 
Wounded: Sergts. H. S. Bennett, J. N. Rud- 
dell; Privates J. 0. 'NoUe. J. A. Stallings; 
Corpl. W. J. Curton; Private W. H. Watson; 
Sergt. F. H. Tucker ; Private S. M. Peterson. 

Company L, Capt. W. A. Bedell comdg — 
Killed : Corpl. Jno. Lewis, Private E. C. 
Crawford. Wounded: Lt. R. R. Armstrong; 
Sergts. W. B. Robinson, C. H. Kingsley; Corpl. 
J. C. Pratt ; Privates A. Brandt, D. Elmendorf, 
J. Fralish, J. P. Gillies. A. Kelso, W. Leach, S. 
S. Lazarus, J. W. Murphy, W. G. Shepherd, W. 
Schadt, F Schmidt, A. W. Wood, Jos. Nagle, F. 
L. Thompson. Missing: Lt. W. P. Randle; Pri- 
vate Jno. Coffee. On the 10th or 13 of Sep- 



tember Private A. J. Scott, while en route 
from Wilmington to Atlanta, fell from the cars 
and was crushed to death. 

Company M, Lt. W. Cecil comdg — Killed: 
Privates Jno. Stephens, G. Oglesby, A. J. 
Adams, J. Ratcliff. Wounded : Sergt. G. B. 
Lundy, W. A. Roach, F. M. Slater; Corpls. J. 
G. Lock ; Privates E. Pope, J. F. Bellamy, W. 

E. Forsyth, Jos. Jones, D. M. Morrow, G. Mor- 
gan, H. Pinson, J. R. Stewart, S. Stubblefield, 
W. T. White, Jas. White, C. Dunlap. 

SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, NOVEMBER 24, 
1863. 

Company A — Missing: D. F. Walker. 

Company C — Wounded : Privates Jas. Wil- 
liams, J. W. Armstrong. 

Company D — Wounded : Sergt. D. F. Story, 
Private F. C. Hopkins. 

Company F — Wounded : Color Corpl. Wm. 
Cryer, supposed to have since died. 

Company H — Killed : Private L. V. Moon. 
Wounded and in the enemy's hands: Corpl. A. 

F. Taylor, Private A. F. Erwin. 

Company I — Wounded and taken prisoner. 
Private E. M. Oliver. 

Company L — Wounded : Color Sergt. G. A. 
Branard, Sergt. R. C. Curtis. 

Company M — Wounded: Lt. W. Cecil; 
Corpl. J. R. Carlton ; Private A. W. Hill. 

SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA. 

Company G — Wounded : Privates E. Newson, 
W. T. Hayhwood. 

Company I — Wounded : Private I. Delnng. 

Company K — Wounded: Sergts. I. Massey, 
R. T. Armour ; Private T. W. Bullock. 

GETTYSBURG, PA., JULY 1, 3 AND 3, 1863. 

Lt. Col. P. A. Work comdg. 

Company A — Killed : Privates H. C. Wright, 

E. T. Derick. Wounded: John Sain. 
Company B— Killed: Sergts. C. W. Butler, 

John Victory; Corpl. I. R. Meekins; Privates 
I. W. Garner, George Harn. Wounded: Sergt. 
W. B. Lowd. 

Companv D — Killed: Sergt. Lemon Morriss; 
Privates Wm. McClelland, R. H. Gibson, I. 

F. Miles. W. C. Dobbs. Wounded: Serst. R. 
Y. H. Floyd; Privates S. W. Chiser, Henry 
J. Hass. 

Company E — Killed : Private Wm. L. Langly. 
Wounded : Sergt. I. T. Longins ; Privates G. 
I. Heard, I. D. Campbell, W. D. Haynes. 

Company F — Wounded : Corpl. W. A. Round- 
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I. T. Steadman. Missing: Capt. S. A. Wilson, 
Private D. W. Summers. 

Company G— Killed : Lt. B. A. Campb?ll, 
Corpl. W. A. Duval. Wounded: Capt. John 
R. Woodward: Corpls. J. 0. Good, Ira Parker; 
Privates John Millan. J. K. Hollowav, W. B. 
Henry, A. T. Eatcliff, T. F. Main, John Park- 
er. 

Company H — Killed : Sergt. John B. Nich- 
ols, Private S. C. Lose. Wounded : Privates 
W. Arnwine, J. R. Jones, Jns. W. Bildwin, 
Jas. Briggs, Joseph A. Knight. Captured: 
Sergt. L. R. Breley; Privates F. M. Embry, 
L. L. Evans, Wm." Foster, W. H. Grav. I. C. 
Kin?, W. G. Middleton, I. R. MuUenny, J. 
S. Eudd, Jas. Tibb, John A. Counts. 

Comnany I — Killed : Lt. 11. N. Jones ; Pri- 
vates W. A. House, M. Murphy. Wounded: I. 
S. Norford,. S. H. Oliphant, S. A. Boon. 

Company K — Killed : T. M. Sharp. Wound- 
ed: W. T. Strother, 0. F. Hail, J. A. Daw- 
eon, R. C. Powell, I. M. Rudd, S. M. Peterson, 
W. T. Brooks, W. B. Howard, F. H. Tucker. 
Missing: R. I. Tucker, W. A. Sharpe. 

Company li — Killed: Sergt. W. H. Porter; 
Privates Joe W. Southwick, T. Mullhausen, J. 
D. Waters, John W. Brown. Wounded: Pri- 
vates J. W. Cummings, A. M. Farquar, H. B. 
McGar, W. W. Taylor, A. Woods. Missing: 
Privates C. W. Hoyle, F. Schwarting, Frank 
Nichols, H. Schulty. Austin Jones, H. E. Mc- 
Crockadale, W. Hoskins. 

Company M — Wounded : Cnrpl. R. 0. Ben- 
nett : Privates C. Dunlap, A. W. Hill, W. Tul- 
los, R. J. Strother. 

SKIRMISH AT FRONT ROYAL. 

Killed: Capt. John R. Woodward, actg. 
maj. 

JOHN H. LEETE, Actg. Adjt. 



LIST OF CASUALTIES IN THE FIFTH 
TEXAS REGIMENT. 

eltham's landing. 
Col. J. J. Archer, comdg. 

Field and StafF— Killed : W. D. Denney, A. 
C. S. In action : Officers, 4 ; men, 3. 

Company A, Capt. Farmer comdg. — In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 52. 

Company B, Capt. Upton comdg. — Killed: 
Private Riley Schorer. Wounded : Privates C. 
Coffee, August Enke, Henry 8enne, Hunt Ter- 
rel. Missing: W. J. Harden, F. K. Harris. 
In action : Officers, 3 ; men, 75. 



Company C, Capt. Whaley comdg. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 4 ; men, 90. 

Company D, Capt. Powell comdg. In action : 
Officers, 4; men, 55. 

Company E, Capt. Rogers comdg. In action: 
Officers, 2; men, 58. 

Company F, Capt. Bryan comdg. In action : 
Officer, 1; men, 70. 

Company G, Capt. J. C. Rogers comdg — 
Wounded : Private A. J. Tomlinson. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 49. 

Company H, Lt. Robinson comdg. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 43. 

Company I, Capt. Clay comdg. In action: 
Officers, 2 ; men, 35. 

Company K, Capt. Turner comdg. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 33. 

Total — Killed, 2 ; wounded, 5 ; missing, 3. 
In action: Officers, 28; men, 472. 

SEVEN PINES. 

Col. J. J. Archer comdg. 

Field and Staff — In action: Officers, 6; 
men, 2. 

Company A, Capt. Farmer comdg — Wound- 
ed : Private A. Wolfe. In action : Officers, 4 ; 
men, 75. 

Company B, Capt. Upton comdg — In action : 
Officers, 3; men, 78. 

Company C, Capt. Whaley comdg — Wound- 
ed: Private J. D. Meredith (since died). In 
action: Officers, 4; men, 49. 

Company D, Capt. Powell comdg — Wound- 
ed: Private K. J. Page. In action: Officers, 
3; men, 66. 

Company E, Capt. J. D. Rogers comdg — 
Wounded: Private T. A. Eldridge. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 63. 

Company F, Capt. Bryan comdg — In action ; 
Officers, 2; men, 61. 

Company G, Capt. J. C. Rogers comdg — 
Wounded: Corpl. W. W. Hill. In action: Of- 
ficers, 4; men, 49. 

Company H, Capt. Cleaveland comdg — In 
action: Officers, 3; men, 51. 

Company I, Capt. Clay comdg — Wounded: 
Privates J. K. Clictt, F. C. Edny. In action: 
Officers, 3 ; men, 60. 

Company K, Capt. Turner comdg^Wound- 
ed: Captain I. N. M. Turner. In action: 
Officers, 3 ; men, 43. 

Total — Wounded, 8. In action : Officers, 38 ; 
men, 597. 



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GAINES FARM. 

Lt. Col. J. B. Eobertson comdg. 

Field and Staff — In action : Officers, 6 ; men, 
2. 

Company A, Capt. Farmer comdg — Killed: 
Lt. J. E. Clute; Fr.vate Geo. Deles Dernier. 
Wounded : Color Sergt. Geo. Onderdonk. In 
action: Officers, 2; men, 50. 

Company B, Lt. Collier comdg — Killed : Pri- 
vate J. R. Gaines. Wounded: Privates E. 
Besch, A. H. Carter, J. L. Carrell, Jacob Hahn; 
C. Lynch, John O'Neil, John Ratigan, John 
Smith; Musician P. M. Murphy. In action: 
Officers, 1 ; men, 56. 

Company C, Capt. Whaley comdg — Killed: 
Private Wm. King Williams. Wounded : Lt. 
W. G. Wallace; Privates E. H. Bristow, Z. Y. 
Dezell, S. W. Irwin, M. T. Welsch. In action: 
Officers, 4 ; men, 43. 

Company D, Lt. Hill comdg — Killed: Pri- 
vate A. D. Alston. Wounded : Private G. A. 
Grant. In action: Officers, 1; men, 45. 

Company E, Capt. Rogers, comdg — Killed: 
Privates — Tom M. Ringold, Moses Cooper, R. 
W. Pearson. Wounded : Lt. Nas'i ; Serai. W. N. 
Norwood, J. F. Wrav; Privates I). C. Batte, 
S. T. Coffield, B. Eldridge, J. B. Lett, S. B. 
Smith, Sam H. Watson. In action: Officers, 
3 ; men, 49. 

Company F, Capt. Bryan comdg — Killed: 
Privates G. M. Woods, W. S. Hall. Wound- 
ed : J. V. Slown, J. R. Moody, J. C. Ross. In 
action : Officers, 1 ; men, 59. 

Company G, Capt. J. C. Rogers comdg — 
Killed: Privates J. J. Lawrence, C. Ward. 
Wounded: Lt. John Smith; Privates T. E. 
Bracken, W. V. L. Cooper, D. H. Carson, A. 
Huffman, J. H. Hawkins, C. J. Jackson, D. 
H. Mays, C. P. Nance, James Pool. In action : 
Officers, 2 ; men, 59. 

Company H, Capt. Cleaveland comdg — 
Wounded : Privates T. Fitzgerald, Harvey Rose. 
In action: Officers, 4; men, 34. 

Company I, Capt. Clay comdg — Killed: Pri- 
vate E. I. Haines. Wounded: Capt. T. T. 
Clay ; Private L. Wells, J. Hallan, J. T. Cross, 
H. W. Waters, W. T. Harris. In action : Offi- 
cers, 3; men, 35. 

Company K, Capt. Turner comdg — Wound- 
ed: Privates J. T. Butler, R. B. Collins, J. 
W. Peebles, J. P. Smith, S. D. Waldress, In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 42. 

Total— Killed, 13. Wounded, 51. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 29 ; men, 474. 



MALVERN HILL. 

Lt. Col. J. B. Robertson comdg. 

Field and Staff — In action : Officers, 6 ; men, 
1. 

Company A, Capt. Farmer comdg — In ac- 
tion : Officers, 1 ; men, 48. 

Company B, Lt. Collier comdg — Killed : Pri- 
vate F. Keopke. In action: Officers, 1; men, 
47. 

Company C, Capt. Wlialey comdg — In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 33. 

Company D, Lt. Hill comdg — Wounded : Pri- 
vates T. B. Scott, R. C. Brown. In action: 
Officers, 2 ; men, 44. 

Company E, Capt. Rogers comdg — Killed: 
Private J. W. Sherman. Wounded : Privates 
D. E. Batte, J. P. Farmer. In action : Officers, 
1 ; men, 43. 

Company F, Capt. Bryan comdg — Wounded : 
Private F. J. Whittington. Jas. Johnson. J. 
C. Tutt, John Muldoon. Missing : T. Choate. 
In action: Officers, 1; men, 48. 

Company G, Capt. J. C. Rogers comdg — 
Killed: Private S. W. Sharp. Wounded: R. 
T. Griffin. In action : Officers, 1 ; men, 45. 

Company H, Capt. Cleveland comdg — In ac- 
tion: Officer-, 4; men, 30. 

Company I, Capt. Clay comdg — In action: 
Officers, 2; men, 25. 

Company K, Capt. Turner comdg — In ac- 
tion: Officers, 2; men, 35. 

Total — Killed, 3; wounded, 9; missing, 1, 
In action : Officers, 24 ; men, 399. 

MANASSAS NO. 2. 

Col. J. B. Robertson Comdg. 

Field and Staff— Killed : Lt. Col. J. C. Up- 
ton. Wounded: Col. J. B. Robertson; Maj. 
K. Bryan. In action : Officers, 3. 

Company A, Capt. Farmer comdg — Killed: 
Sergt. J. A. McMurtry, Corpl. John Bell ; Pri- 
vates A. An£;el, J. Deles Denier, John De- 
Young, D. W. Walker, J. Heffrin, J. Massen- 
berg. Wounded : Sergts. E. A. Nobles, B. C. 
Simpson; Privates S. Bailey, K. Campbell, J. 
R. Patton, S. D. Hews, W. Reilley, 0. O'Nally. 
In action: Officers, 4; men, 60. 

Company B, Capt. J. D. Roberdeau comdcr — 
Wounded: Capt. Roberdeau; Lt. Ben Baker; 
Sergt. J. B. Wall, Corpls. J. H. Whitehead, 
W. W. Pinchback, J. S. Miller, A. V. L. Car- 
ter; Private E. Besch, J. S. Bruce. P. Collins, 
M. Daggett, John Carrigan, M. Flanagan, R. 
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F. Nelms, John Smith, W. T. Snell, Webb 
Shepherd, John Traynor, J. P. Umbarger, P. 
Woodhouse, W. L. Khodes. In action: Offi- 
cers, 3 ; men, 45. 

Company C, Capt. J. J. McBryde comdg — 
Wounded : Capt. J. J. McBryde ; Lt. J. E. An- 
derson, J. S. New; Sergt. G. F. Border, J. C. 
Cox ; Corpl. J. S. Adkinson ; Privates J. M. 
Anderson, Eobert Allen, B. W. Bristow, H. B. 
Dunn, J. P. Driscoll, J. Green, J. E. Ellis, J. 
C. Lacey, B. D. Nunney, T. R. Pistole, P. G. 
Phillips, J. L. Eoss, J. M. Wallace. In action : 
Officers, 4; men, 37. 

Company D, Capt. Hill comdg — Killed : Pri- 
vates L. Mass, W. D. Wynne, S. T. Koss, J. C. 
Burden, W. F. Spivey, B. D. Estell, J. K. P. 
Harris, W. M. Nelms. Wounded: Sergts. 0. 
P. Caldwell, J. M. Robinson; Corpls. R. A. 
Brantley, L. A. Mitchell; Privates J. W. Cot- 
ton, W. Douglass, A. F. Goulding, R. H. Grif- 
fin, F. C. Hume, M. A. Lampkin, E. Lach- 
man, K. J. Page, W. P. Powell, S. B. Randall, 
W. D. Smith, R. Stanton, J. E. Seals. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 48. 

Company E. Capt. Baber comdg — Killed : 
Sergt. V. E. Petty; Privates S. D. Dean, G. 
H. Hutchinson, C. E. Moncreef, N. N. Mullins. 
Wounded: Lt. Nash; Sergts. F. M. William- 
son, J. J. Smith ; Corpls. J. C. Buster, W. H. 
H. Grace; Privates J. A. Cartmell, F. A. Eld- 
ridge, M. A. J. Evans, M. M. Folder, J. W. Gee, 
L. B. Holliday, B. Y. Cavanagh, J. W. T/jVi, 
S. S. Lockett, W. Sen?ebaugh, J. F. Toland, S. 

B. Williams, J. W. Wallace, J. W. Spann. 
Missing : J. S. Hutchinson. In action : Offi- 
cers, 3; men, 58. 

Company F, Lt. Williams comdg — Killed : 
Corpl. H. B. Johnson ; Private A. G. Dugaw. 
Wounded: Lt. W. D. Williams; Sergts. G. W. 
Starns, I. F. Church, J. M. Dillon; Privates 

C. G. Fortescue, John Little, H. C. Sheay, H. 
Griffith, J. Beckman, F. J. Whittingto"!. E. 
V. McCarty, J. C. Nobles, R. Swinev, W. A. 
Fletcher, J. W. Pemberton, J. K. Bryan, E. 
Mallory, E. R. Bouch. In action: Officers, 3; 
men, 45. 

Company G, Lt. John Smith comdg — Killed : 
Privates C. J. Adams, F. M. Bolinger, Y. B. 
Eav, R. A. Eav. Wounded: Sergts. W. A. 
Nabors, W. H. Tarver; Private E. B. McAn- 
inch, J. W. Allen, D. R. Beal, J. E. Brvan, L. 
M. Caldwell, E. McDonald, M. D. Garnett, E. 
P. Gould, J. A. Jolly, G. F. Long, J. D. Loch- 
lin, R. B. Mays, John Monroe, John Moore, 
E. W. Poole. S. W. Richardson, H. H. Rowe, 
A. J. Sherrill, J. Stiedham, J. D. Shelton, W. 
W. Smith, H. H. Sharp, S. H. Walker. In ac- 
tion: Officers, 3; men, 61. 



Company H, Capt. Cleveland comdg — Killed: 
Privates R. — . Baine, C. D. Hall, D. Pannel. 
Wounded : Capt. Cleveland ; Lts. Eobinton, S. 
S. Stanley, T. B. Sprott; Sergts. L. H. Wood- 
all, E. M. Osborn; Corpls. W. House, L. J. 
Goree; Privates E. R. Bell, J. C. Cuny, J. 
Barber, Ben Freeman, M. B. Grace, J. W. 
Grace, T. L. H^im] ton, J. S. Stone, J. Shields, 
S. E. Walters, J. Hemphill, W. E. Lee, J. New. 
In action : Officers, 4 ; men, 48. 

Company I, Lt. Franklin comdg — Killed: 
Private W. B. Royston. Wounded : Lts. B. 
J. Franklin, C. A. Graham; Corpls. W. 0. Mor- 
gan, E. H. McNight; Private T. B. Allen, J. 
W. Dallas, S. S. Driscoll, W. T. Han is, W. R. 
McRea, D. H. Robertson, E. H. Spence, G. W. 
Baldwin, W. Crabtree, J. Dick, W. Haley, T. 
Bate?. In action : Officers, 2 ; men, 45. 

Company K, Capt. Turner coraag — Killed: 
Lt. B. W." Henry. Wounded: Capt. 1. N. M. 
Turner; Lts. R. W. Hubert, B. H. N. Hurt; 
Sergts. J. Turner, N. B. McKinnon, F. F. 
Meece; Corpls. N. Gates, A. B. Green, J. W. 
Smith ; Privates H. A. Easterling, W. J. Ward, 
J. M. Bowen, W. M. Braswell, L. B. Djitch, 
J. M. Alexander, A. Dunn, F. Butler, F. C. 
Matthews, J. W. Matthews, J. P. Kale, J. W. 
McCoy, J. F. McKee, B. F. Meekins, J. Roan, 
D. A. Rowe, W. Stewart. In action: Offi- 
cers, 4; men, 44. Total killed, 3(j; wounded, 
189 ; missing, 1. In action : Officers, 36 ; men, 
485. 

freeman's ford. 

Col. J. B. Robertson Comdg. 

Field and Staff— Killed : Maj. M. D. Whaley. 
In action: Officers, 4. 

Company A, Capt. Farmer comdg — In ac- 
tion : Officers, 4 ; men, 60. 

Company B, Capt. Roberdeau comdg — 
Killed : Private F. Mathee. Wounded : Pri- 
vate D. Hurley, F. K. Harris, T. J. Roberts. 
In action: Officers, 2; men, 45. 

Company C, Capt. McBryde, comdg — 
Wounded: J. H. Haley. In action: Offi- 
cers, 4; men, 37. 

Comi any D, Lt. Hill comdg — In action: 
Officers, 3; men, 47. 

Company E, Capt. T. A. Baber comdg — In 
action: Officers, 3; men, 40. 

Company F, Capt. Bryan comdg — In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 52. 

Company G, Capt. John Smith comdg — In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 70. 

Company H, Capt. Cleaveland comdg — 
Wounded: Private L. B. Wickes. In action: 
Officers, 4; men, 49. 



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Company I, Lt. Franklin comdg — In action: 
Officers, 2 ; men, 50. 

Company K, Capt. Turner comclg — Wound- 
ed: Sergt. J. C. Beard; Private J. B. Wil- 
son. In action: Officers, 3; men, 55. 

Total — Killed, 2. Wounded, 7. In action: 
Officers, 35 ; men, 505. 

BOONSBOROUGH GAP, MD. 

Capt. Ike N. M. Turner comclg. Reit. 

Conifany A, Capt. Farmer comdg — Missing: 
Privates G. Miller, A. Beasley, C. Stevens. Pat. 
Burns, T. E. Bigbee, H. P. Welch. In actijn: 
Officers 3 ; men, 30. 

Con-pany B, Capt. Roberdeau comdg — 
Wounded: Private T. T. DeGraffenried. In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 15. 

Compmy C, Lt. Xew co'iidsr — Wounded : 
Private J. T. Allison. In action: Officers, 2; 
men, 16. 

Company D, Lt. Hill comdg — In action: 
Officers, 3; men, 35. 

Company E, Capt. Baber comdg — In action : 
Officers, 3 ; men, 35. 

Company P, lit. Leonard comdg — Woundel: 
Private M. Whalon. In action: Officers, 1; 
men, 23. 

'''omna^y G. Cant. Smith comdg — In action: 
Officers, 2; men, 40. 

Company H — In action: Men, 15. 

Company I, Lt. Franklin comdg — In action: 
Officers, 2 ; men, 20. 

Company K, Lt. Hubert comdg — In action: 
Officers, 3 ; men, 17. 

Total — Wounded, 3; missing, 6. In action: 
Officers, 21 ; men, 246. 

SHARPSBURG, MD. 

Capt. Ike N. M. Turner comdg. 

Company A, Capt. Farmer comdg — Killed : 
Privates A. F. Wolfe, F. Kossen. Wounded: 
Corpl. B. Dyer, Private A. Stewart. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 2 ; men, 24. 

Company B. Capt. Roberdeau comd? — 
K'llei: Crlor Bearer A. H. Baker. Wound^nl : 
W. Cherry, John Morrissey, W. L. Rhodes, W. 
J. Darden. 

Ccmpanv E — Killed : Privates R. Toland, 
Hardv Allen, James Hurt. Wounded: Capt. 
T. M. Baber; Lt. Norwood; Privates J. Hen- 
derson, W. Legrand, T. H. Mullins. 

Comna"y I — Wounded : Lt. Drake ; Sergt. 
Robt. P;irk; Private Tom Nemin, John Howe, 
Robert Howe, D. F. j\Iorgan. Missing: B. 
Baker. 



GETTYSBURG, PA., JULY 1, 2 AND 3, 1863. 

Col. R. M. Powell comdg. 

Field and Staff— Wounded : Col. R. M. Pow- 
ell; Lt. Col. K. Bryan. 

Company A, Capt. D. C. Farmer, comdg — 
Killed : Privates S. Cohn. C. W. Diggs, J. E. 
Love, Wm. McDowell. Wounded : Capt. D. C. 
Farmer; Sergt. B. C. Simpson, H. G. Suttle; 
Coril C. F. Suttle; Color Bearer T. W. Fitz- 
gerald; Privates Sam Bailev, J. Cramor, W. 
H. Clark, L. Colman, A. H.Edey, E. Fragee, 
J. Leveton. J. Morris, N. I'omi'rnv, T, H. Keve- 
ly, S. H. Watkins, Corpl. J. H. Garrison. 

Compnny B. Capt. J. D. Roberdeau comdg — 
Killed: Lt. D. H. Henderson; Corpls. J. S. 
Miller, J. A. Howard; Privates Michael Hur- 
ley, H. Hayne, W. F. Nelms, Jno. Q. Neill, 
A. G. Sloane. W. B. Wilson. Wounded: Lt. 
Ben. Baker; Sergts. Whitehead, Carter; Pri- 
vate- H. Terrel. D. Hurley. Missing: ( apt. J. 

D. Roberdeau ; Privates W'. L. Hare, H. Pratt, 
John Treanor, P. Woodhouse, H. M. Taylor, 
R. C. Wallace, John Smith. 

Company C, Capt. J. J. McBride comdg — 
Ki Ipd : Sergt. Z. Y. Dezell. Wounded : Sergt. 
F. M. Williams; Private J. H. Poole, J. M. 
Anr'erson, T. J. Bovkin, J. F. Costan, D. H. 
Costan J. P. Driscoll, H. T. Driscoll, A. Law- 
son, B. L. Nunnery, T. R. Pistole, Eli Yow, 
J. M. Wallace. Missing: Sergt. N. P. Moss; 
Corpl. G. A-. Shilling; Private A. B. Alli- 
son. 

Company D, Capt. W. T. Hill comdg— 
Klled: Privates G. VV. Escridge, J. A. Mc- 
Dade, Henry Abernathy, Wm. Turner. Wound- 
ed: Capt. "W. T. Hill; Lt. Campbell Wood; 
Sergts. A. M. Henson. W. G. W. Farthing; Pri- 
vates P. G. Williamson, Z. P. Henry, W. G. 
Colman, Jno. W. Cotton. W. W. Allston, N. 
Douglas, J. C. Hill, J. E. Gilbert, R. Hardy, 

E. Laciman, Joel Minshew, M. Murphy, 1. 
Parker. S. B. Randill, C. Sha^oski. "*'i' =incr: 
Sergt. R. A. Brantly; Corpl. L. A. Mitchell; 
Privates E. Burke, G. A. Grant, Robert Hew- 
itt, C. Kearse Wm. T. IMfGilvarv, .T. P Yelms, 
K. J. Page, W. P. Powell, W. J. C. Pearce. 

Company E, Capt. Baber comdg — Killed : 
Corpl. G. W. Countts ; Pvts. John Booth, Wm. 
Sensebnugh, Thos. Weathersby. Wounded : Lt. 
R. T. Harper, Thos. Nash ; Privates Jno. Rob- 
erts. Jno. Daniels, T. J. Armitage, S. S. Lock- 
et, S. H. Watson, W. E. Stevens, W. R. Lott, 
J. R. Goodwin, J. J. Smith. 

Company F. Capt. Williams comda' — ^'Ted: 
M. Prue. Wounded: Capt. D. M.' Williams; 
Sergts. F. 0. Yates, W. S. Evans, J. M. Car- 
lock; Privates E. R. Bouch, J. Brown, J. T. 
Booth, S. Curville, N. Dorian, S. Jirow, T. W. 



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Taylor. Missing: Lt. J. E. Cobb; Private 

C. D. Brashear, A. Bandwin. 

Company G, Capt. Jno. Sraitb comdg — 
Killed : Privates W. P. Anderson, G. F. Clarl<e, 
W. C. Jones, J. D. Locklin, J. A. Jolly. Wound- 
ed: Lt. E. M. Beane; Scrgt. W. W. Smith; 
Corpl. D. C. Koss; Privates A. H. Brown, 
Benj. Green, Washington Jones, S. B. Allison, 

D. P. Beale, A. Mernard, A. P. Cunningham, 
Dan McDonald, H. Mooring, D. H. Mnys, J. 
H. Watson, S. H. Walker, Isnac Jackson, An- 
drew Jackson, J. W. Webb, Sergt. J. G. Sher- 
rill; Privates R. W. Eitchie, A. G. Jonts, Benj. 
Carley. Missing: Corpls, W. Hill, T. M. 
Bigby; Privates P. B. Henderson, D. H. Car- 
son, N. W. Blackman, G. N. Jones. 

Company H, Capt. J. S. Cleaveland — Killed: 
Sergt. J. F. McDonald; Corpl. J. P. Weathers; 
Privates S. V. Stephenson, F. M. Fitzgerald. 
Wounded : Private W. Woods, J. L. Tarkmg- 
ton, J. C. Graves, J. E. Fridge. Jas. Robi- 
nett. Missing: Private Jas. H. Keys, deserted 
in time of battle. 

Company I, Capt. T. T. Clay comdg— Killed : 
Privates Thos. Bates, Wm. Haley. Wounded: 
Lt. C. M. Graham, Sergts. H. S. Tarver, H. 
C. Robertson, G. W. Clampitt, W. 0. Morgan; 
Corpl. J. S. Haffner; Privates J. L. Holmes, 
Wm. Short, B. J. Baldwin, John Dean, J. H. 
Blue. Missing: Private H. C. Martin, Jas. 
Thomas. 

Conipanv K, Capt. R. W. Hubert romd? — 
Killed : Private Simson Dunn. Wounded : 
Sergt. T. F. Meece ; Privates J. P. IMeece, W. 
H. Fields, R. A. Ashley, W. H. Matthews, M. 
A. Hubbard, D. C. Hendlev. J. D. Calvert. Gus 
Pierrot, W. S. Sandell, J. F. Ford. Missing: 
Capt. R. W. Hubert; \Js. B. N. Hurt, .). .\l. 
Alexander; Sergt. N. B. McKinnon; Corpl. Jno. 
S. Stevens; Privates Jno. Townes, J. Julian, 
F. Eutler. J. W. ]\latthews, T. W. Meece, B. 
F. Meekins, J. C. Matthews. 

Total— Killed, 37. Wounded, 126. Missing, 
46. 

CHICKAMAUGA, SEPTEMBER 19 AND 20, 18G3. 

Maj. J. C. Rogers, comdg. 

Field and Staff— Wounde 1 : Maj. J. C. Rog- 
ers; Sergt. Maj. J. M. Smither. 

Company A. Lt. B. T. Fuller comdg — • 
Wounded: Color Bearer W. H. C'arke; Pri- 
vate; J. Morris, J. H. Bobbins, Robt. Camp- 
bell. J. O'Mallev, C. B. Gardiner, F. W. Plum- 
er, M. L. Steele. 

Companv B, Lt. Ed. Collier comdg — Wound- 
ed: Lts. Ed. Collier. Ben B-^ker; Sergt. J. S. 
Obensbain ; Corpl. Webb Sbepard; Privates 
Burton, W. Cherry, D. Hurley, E. Y. Hart, 



Geo. Gegenworth, J. B. Harvey, Jno. Lake, 
August Enke. Missing: Private Jno. Mor- 
risey. 

Company C, Capt. J. J. McBryde command- 
ing — Killed: Private B. R. Perry. Wounded: 
Lts. G. F. Border, Z. L. Logan; Sergt. J. C. 
Cox; Privates J. J. Gough, E. W. James, F. 
M. Robinson, J. L. Stevens, J. S. Skinner, R. 
Turner, Eli Yow. 

Company D, Lt. 0. P. Caldwell comdg — 
Killed : Corpl. T. L. Watson ; Privates M. C. 
Brown, John Tomlinson. Wounded : Privates 
J. A. Dickie, M. L. Gilbert. J. E. Gilbert, T, 
J. Lewis, W. B. Rome, A. H. Traylor; Sergt 
J. M. Robinson. 

Company E, Capt. T. A. Baber comdg — 
Killed : Privates T. E. Maddox, Jas. Spann. 
Wounded: Sergts. W. B. W. George. F. A. 
Eldridge ; Privates M. A. J. Evans, J. W. Wal- 
lace, T. H. Mullins, J. '1'. Sedeley, W. R. Lott, 
S. T. Cofield, Wm. C. Legrand. " 

Company F, Lt. R. J. McKinnon comdg — 
Killed: Sergt. W. S. Evans; Privates P. C. 
Buxton, D. Toups. Wounded : Sergts. H. V. 
Angell, W. A. Fletcher. T. W. Bryan, J. Beck- 
man, F. Coogen, W. MeVay, M. L. McCarey, 
J. M. Dillon, H. L. Taylor, F. J. Whitting- 
ton. i 

Company G, Lt. Sam Streetman comdg — 
Killed: Lt. Sam Streetman; Private C. L. 
Bagwell. Wounded : Privates H. H. Roe, Robt. 
Griffin, J. T. Austin, M. D. Garrett, A. O. 
Jones, J. B. Small. JIis=in<r: Privates J. H. 
Odum, R. B. Mays, J. L. Stewart. 

Company H — Killed: Sergt. J. A. Jennings; 
Private T. J. Simmons. Wounded : Lt. T. B, 
Sprott; Privates R. E. Lee. Harvey Rose, Jas. 
Bass, A. H. Butler, R. T. Wilson. 

Company I — Killed : Privates J. W. Kilby, 
Jno. Short. Wounded: Cornl. J. W. Graves; 
Privates Wm. Crabtree, J. D. Holmes, W. A. 
Holmes, B. J. Baldwin, Jno. Davis, A. W. 
Holt, J. W. Tooley. Mi-sing: Private Stephen 
Driscoll. 

Company K, Lt. J. Turner comdg — Killed: 
Sergts. J.'C. Beard. N. Oats. Wounded: Lt. 
Jne Turner; Corpl. L. B. Dorteh ; Privates T. 
Butler, A. J. Fairchilds, Wm. M. McDonald, 
T. W. MeCrory, W. D. S. Nettles, E. Kirtland. 
Missing: Private J. W. McCoy. 

Total— Killed, 17. Wounded, 86. Missing, 
6. 

SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE, NOVEMBER 25, 1863. 

Companv C, Capt. J. J. McBrvde comdg — 
Wounded :"Lt. G. F. Border; Private J. J. 
Gouch. 

Company D, Lt. A. C. Woodall coir.dg — 
Killed : Private Wm. Sanders. 



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71 



Company I, Lt. B. J. Franklin comdg — 
Killed: Private R. H. Spence. Wounded: T. 
P. Dudley. 

Total— Killed, 2. Wounded, 3. 

THE WILDERNESS, VA., MAY 6, 18G4. 

Lt. Col. K. Bryan comdg. 

Field and Staff— Wounded : Lt. Col. K. Bry- 
an; Capt. T. T. Clay, actg. lieut. col.; Capt. 

D. C. Farmer, actg. maj.; Adjt. W. P. Mc- 
Gowen. 

Company A, Lt. B. P. Fuller comdg — Killed : 
Private T. P. Bryan. Wounded: Lt. B. P. 
Fuller; Sergts. G. J. Robinson, J. H. Shep- 
herd; Privates W. H. Clark (color bearer), J. 
C. Deloach, J. E. Landes. 

Company B, Lt. Ed. Collier comdg — Killed: 
Private E. Auerbach. Wounc^ed : Privates E. 
Besch, W. Chemey, P. Collins, R. Graff. 

Company C, Capt. J. J. McBryde comdg — 
Wounded : Capt. J. J. McBrvde ; Privates J. 
T. Allison. J. E. Ellis. John Garrison, J. K 
Lacy, R. Turner, H. P. Trawick. 

Company D, Capt. W. T. Hill comdg— 
Killed: Corpl. W. E. Lewis; Privates W. H. 
Lewis, R. H. Griffin. Wounded : Capt. W. T. 
Hill; Corpl. W. C. Walke; Privates W. W. 
Alston, B. Carrington, I. E. Gilbert, W. H. 
Myers, I. Burton, W. B. Rome, W. A. Tray- 
lor. Missing: Robert Stanton. 

Company E, Second Lt. B. EJdridge comdg — 
Killed: Private C. E. Faquehor. Wounded: 
Lt. B. Eldridge ; Sergt. W. B. George ; Privates 
John Daniels, L. Gee, W. Lott, W. H. Mc- 
Alister, G. W. Williams. 

Company F, Capt. W. D. Williams comdg — 
Wounded : Lt. R. J. McKinnon ; Privates 0. 
Copal, S. Curvelo, Jeff Chiis?on, P. Choate, 

E. Bouch. Santos Rnssas, J. M. Dillon, T. Tay- 
lor, E. Tucker, A. N. Vaughn. 

Company G, Cajit. Smith comdg — Killed: 
Private W. W. Peeks. Wounded : Sergt«. L. 
Caldwell, J. G. Sberrell. E. D. WilVams; Corpl. 
T. M. Bisbie: Privates S. H. Beller, G. A. 
Bennard, J. W. Evans. M. D. Garret. J. C. 
Gotford. A. Huffman, W. W. Hill, L. W. Mil- 
ler, E. Pool, J. A. Siiarp, J. B. Tomlinfon. 

Company H, Lt. W. Robinson comdg — 
Wounded: Lt. W. Robinson; Privates James 
Chesser. F. K, dnrre. 'i . ' . 'n-'-ntn-^. J. 
Hemnhill, D. McCraekin, J. C. Pinson, James 
RobinFt, E. Sbaw. 

Company I, Lt. D. R. Ponce comdg — ^Kiiled : 
Privates John Divis, George Bildwin. Wound- 
ed: Sergt. G. Clampitt; Privates W. R. Bir- 
low, John Conner, John Dean, J. W. Dean, R. 
Plemming, J. W. Grant, W. A. Holmes, A. B. 



Hood, John Hoval, B. J. Baldwin, E. C. 
Hewes, 0. P. Barton, J. W. Powell, W. G. 
Blue. 

Company K, Lt. Thomas Nash, Company E, 
comdg — Killed : Lt. Thomas Nash ; Privates T. 
McCrary, Thomas Henry, John McKee. 
Wounded: Sergts. A. B. Green, D. A. Rowe; 
Privates N. Wiley, W. B. Young, H. C. Hi- 
rams, A. Dunn, B. C. Hubbard, S. D. Wal- 
drop. 

Total— Killed, 13. Wounded, 90. Missing, 1. 

SPOTTSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, MAY 9, 10, 11, 1864. 

Capt. D. C. Farmer comdg. 

Company A, Sergt. H. G. Settle comdg — 
Killed: Private Samuel Bailey. Missing: Pri- 
vate W. B. Ferrell. 

Company B, Lt. Edward Collier comdg — 
Wounded : Private D. Hurley. 

Company C, Lt. J. E. Anderson command- 
ing — Killed : Private J. J. Pridgen. Wound- 
ed : Private J. M. Anderson. 

Company D, Lt. A. C. Woodall command- 
ing — Killed: Private J. T. Shaw. Wounded: 
Private J. T. Alverson. 

Company G. Capt. Smith comdg — Wound- 
ed : J. B. Small. 

Company H, Sergt. L. H. Woodall comdg — 
Killed : Private W. G. Jones. 

Total — Killed, 4. Wounded, 4. Missing, 1. 



LIST OF CASUALTIES IN FOURTH 
TEXAS REGIMENT. 

The list of casualties of the Fourth Texas 
were so badly faded as to be undecipherable, 
and following is all that could possibly be made 
out: 

ELTHAM's landing, MAY 7, 1862. 
Col. John Marshal comdg. 

Field and Staff — In action: Officers, 2; 
men, 4. 

Company A, Lt. S. H. Harden comdg — In 
action: Officers, 3; men, 55. 

Compnnv B, Capt. B. F. Carter comdg — In 
action: Officers, 3; men, 78. 

Company C. Capt. W. P. Townsend comdg — 
In action : Officers, 4; men, 61. 

Company D. Capt. John P. Bane comdg — 
In action: Officers, 3; men, 50. 

Company E, Capt. E. D. Ryan comdg — In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 70. 

Company F, Cant. Ed Cunningham comdg 
— In action: Officers, 4; men, 50. 

Company G, Capt. J. W. Hutchinson comdg 



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— Killed : Charles W. Spencer. In action : Of- 
ficers, 2; men, 80. 

Company H, Capt. P. P. Porter cojidg — 
Wounded : Corp. H. S. Sapp. In action : Offi- 
cers, 3; men, 46. 

Company I, Lt. J. W. Lockridge comdg — 
In action: Officers, 3; men, 37. 

Company K, Capt. Wm. Martin comdg — In 
action: Officers, 3; men, 50. 

Total — Killed, 1. Wounded, 1. In action: 
Officers, 37 ; men, 581. 

SEVEN PINES, MAT 31 AND JUNE 1, 1862. 

Col. John Marshal comdg. 

Field and Staff — In action : Officers, 8 ; men, 
4. 

Company A, Capt. S. H. Darden comdg — 
In action: Officers, 4; men, 70. 

Company B, Capt. B. F. Carter comdg — 
Wounded: A. W. Nichols. In action: Offi- 
cers, 4; men, 70. 

Company C, Capt. W. P. Townsend comdg — 
Wounded : George Elders. In action : Officers, 
4; men, 46. 

Company D, Capt. J. P. Bane comdg — In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 55. 

Company E, Capt. E. D. Eyan comdg — In 
action: Officers, 3; men, 53. 

Company F, Capt. Ed Cunningham comdg — 
In action : Officers, 4 ; men, 60. 

Company G, Capt. J. W. Hutchinson comdg 
In action: Officers, 3; men, 60. 

Company H, Capt. P. P. Porter comdg — In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 70. 

Company I, Capt. C. M. Winkler comdg — 
Missing prisoner: W. G. Jackson, since e.\- 
ch-'ncred. In action : Officers, 4 ; men, 50. 

Company K, Capt. Wm. Martin comdg — 
Wounded: T. J. Hadgood, J. F. Smith. In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 60. 

Total — Wounded, 4. Missing, 1. In action : 
Officers, 33 ; men, 502. 

GAINES' FARM. JUNE 27, 1862. 

Col. John JIarshal comdg. 
. Field and Staff— Killed: Col. John Mar- 
sha'!. It. Col. Rradfiitc Warwirk. Capt. 'Hw^. 
W. Owens, A. C. S. Wounded: Ma.]. J. C. G. 
Key. In action : Officers, 8 ; men, 4. 

Company A, Capt. S. II. Darden comdg — 
Killed : Sergt. A. P. Brown ; Privates John 
Adams, A. J. Barton, Fount Lyle, .\. B. Mel- 
horn. Wounded: CoryX. J. A. Surrett; Pri- 
vates J. W. Deel. J. W. Eldridge. Alex Mil- 
liard. J. H. Kev, Robt. Lockridge, C'^as. Moned, 
Jerem'nh Murphev. Jos. McCirtv, Donald Mc- 
Donald, Wm. A. Stanfield, John A. Wood. 



Company B, Lt. W. C. Walsh comdg— Killed : 
Second Lt. R. J. Lambert, Private J. S. Sum- 
mers. Wounded: Lt. W. t. \\':ilch, Sergt. John 
T. Price, Corpl. Niles Faucett; Privates J. C. 
Callahan, G. Calvin, W. H. Calon, G. H. Cro- 
zier, J. Falls, V. C. Giles, John Griffith, A. 
J. Howard, J. J. Hughes, Wm. A. KcU r, E. 
Jones, R. Markhan, C. L. Morris, S. E. Mos- 
ley, G. R. Nichols. W. L. Piper, J. D. Railey, 

C. H. Rushton, J. Shuter, M. Thomas. In 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 62. 

Company C, Capt. W. P. Townsend comdg — 
Killed: Lt. P. S. Wood; Corpls. A. P. Street- 
man, Jo Adams; Privates P. H. Brown, W. 
Conley, W. R. Hunter, J. S. P. Henderson, J. 
R. Robertson, J. R. Smilie, W. J. Smilie. 
Wounded : Sergts. H. W. Davis, J. C. Robeit.^ J. 
J. Hollowav; Corpls. J. W. M. P. Hill, J. D. 
Boyd ; Privates F. Barton, W. L. Bailey, T. B. 
Beivers, J. H. Drennan, W. L. E'i?ler, H. F. 
Eddington, W. H. Foster, R. V. Foster, E. N. 
Hickson, W. W. Marshall. B. Merryman, J. Oli- 
ver, J. Sneed, J. H. Simmons, B. Wood, C. 

D. S. Wilkins. In action: Officers, 4; men, 
49. 

Company D, Capt. John P. Bane comdg — 
Killed: 1st Lt. C. Reich, 2d Lt. T. H. Hol- 
laman. Privates Geo. Butler, W. L. Calvert, 
J. I. Davidson, Ale.x Douar, Isham Fennell, I. 
R. Lackey, A. A. Gordon, Leonidas Millett, 
A. L. Pierce, John T. Young, T. J. Park. 
Wounded: Capt. J. P. Bane,"Privites T. G. 
Courting, M. S. Dunn, W. B. Dimmitt, Jas. 
Dimmitt. T. J. Ewing, A. M. Erskme. A. G. 
Green, W. S. Green, Julius Glazer, W. H. 
Harmann, Z. J. Harmann, S. A. Jones, Ben.]. 
F. Little. A. Leonard, M. E. Miller, Frank 
Sanders, Paris Smith, Wm. Shumate, W. W. 
Wilson, J. M. White. In action: Officers, 3; 
men, 47. 

Company E, Capt. E. D. Ryan comdg — 
Killed: Capt. E. D. Ryan, Corpl. S. Young, 
Privates R. L. Freeman, Abner Roberts, J. 
S. Smith. Wounded: Lt. J. M. Brandon, 
Sergt. W. W. Dunklin, Corpl. C. S. Worsham, 
Privates B. L. Avcock, Noah Bible, J. H. Har- 
rison. L. D. Hollowav, J. B. Chapman, J. B. 
Majors, C. P. Madden, N. P. Moore, W. D. 
Roffcrs, E. L. Sharp, G. M. Taylor. In action: 
Officers, 3; men, 43. 

Company F, Capt. Ed Cunningham comdg — 
Killed : Jr. 2d Lt. L. P. Lyons. Corpl. D. M. 
McAlister, Privates T. J. Cunningham, Ed- 
ward Downing, C. F. Henderson, Nicholas 
Kahr, John S. Kindred, Garrett Koolbeck, E. 
J. Sampson, R. A. Sullivan. Wounded : 1st 
Lt. J. F. Brooks, Corpl. C. A. McAllister, 
Privates 6. G. Aylmer, Reuben T. Crigler, E. 
R. Crockett, A. Dial, W. A. Green, J. R. Har- 



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well, W. C. Johnson, Jas. B. Kindred, Joshua 
P. Kindred, Peter Maus, T. J. MeCann, Os- 
car Menger, Wm. Morris, M. M. Pengrar, Mich- 
ael Pickett, Jos. B. Polley. In action: Officers, 
4; men, 53. 

Company G, Capt. J. W. Hutchinson comdg 
—Killed: Capt. J. W. Hutchinson, Lt. 1). L. 
Butts, Privates A. J. Cruse, W. S. Jones, Jno. 
Eoverson, J. B. Scott, Caleb W. White. Wound- 
ed : Sergt. Jas. L. Scott, Corpl. E. P. Nelems, 
Private^ W. E. Barry, N. M. Baines, J. T. 
Dance, S. D. Ferrell, J. J. Flournoy, G. A. 
Gay, D. C. Griffin, B. F. Kellev, Jas. T. Muse, 
E. W. Pearce, J. M. Peteet, J. H. Plasters, 
W. B. Peteet, David Silverbough, W. A. Stacey, 
John Trant, J. J. Williams. In action: OfEi' 
cers, 4; men, 61. 

Company H, Cnpt. P. P. Porter comdg — 
Killed: Capt. P. P. Porter, Sergts. N. A. Mv- 
ers, R. L. Tyler, T. 0. Wilkes; Corpl. Chas. 
M. Conroe, Privates B. H. Allrn, Henrv Bar- 
zo, G. D. L. Bryant, J. H. Gillam, R." Quig- 
ley, W. L. Martin. Wounded : 2d Lt. Benton 
Randolph, Sergt. Gus. A. Wynne, Privates W. 
E. Copeland, W. L. Fisher, Adams Hahn, J, 
A. Kirl)v, John Long, J. Towi^s, D. G. ^lav, 
W. C. May, Marion Myers, T. T. M. Pettv, 
Jas. Sergeant. John Smith, R. R. Stratton, J. 
S. Spivev. Matt Steussey, Hy. Travis. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 2 ; men, 43. 

Company I, Captain C. M. Winkler comcfg — 
Killed : Private W. A. Fondran. Wounded : 1st 
Lt. J. P. Lockridge. 2d Lt. Mat Beaslev, Serijt. 
J. D. Caldwell, Privates W. E. Carroll, Jas. 
Franklin, E. M. Garner, John Gregory, Jack 
Hill, J. H. Hill, A. M. Lemmons, John Pick- 
ett, J. W. G. Piatt, J. M. Polk, J. R. Shaw, 
J. H. Treadwell, R. H. Wade, J. C. Welch, E. 
Waters. In action : Officers, 4 ; men, 46. 

Company K, Capt. W. H. Martin comdg — 
Kil'ed : Sergt. E. J. Will'ams, Corpl. H. L. El- 
fidge. Privates B. M. Cox, W. L. Edwards, F. 
M. Hight. E. C. Hilliard, S. L. Owei. J. A. 
Kounsavall. Wounded : 1st Lt. J. S. Burress, 
2d Lt. M. 0. Clanahan, Jr. Zd Lt. W. D. 
Roupsavall, Corpl. W. S. Wilton, Privates J. 
M. Campbell, L. D. Champion, J. D. Heard, 
W. S. Isaacs, S. G. McXeeley. A. H. Rogers, 
J. M. Swindle. In action: Officers, 4; men, 
44. 

Total— Killed, 75. Wounded, 180. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 40 ; men, 506. 

MALVERN HILL. JULY 1, 1862. 

Capt. W. P. Townsend comdg. 

Field and Staff— In action: Officers, 2; 
men, 4. 

Company I — Wounded : Sergt. S. K. Morris. 
In action : Officers, 1 ; men, 20. 



Company K — Wounded : Private W. A. . 

In action : Officers, 1 ; men, 21. 

Total — Wounded, 2. In action : Officers, 
16; men, 245. 

freeman's ford, august 22, 1862. 

Lt. Col. B. F. Carter comdg — In action : Of- 
ficers, 35, men, . 

MANASSAS, AUGUST 29 AND 30, 1862. 

Lt. Col. B. F. Carter comdg. 

Field and Staff— Wounded : Major W. P. 
Townsend. In action : Officers, 6 ; men, 5. 

Company A, Capt. S. H. Darden comdg — 
Killed: Sergt. T. J. Thomas. Wounded: 
Sergts. Geo. E. Lynch, Robert W. Thomas, Ed. 
M. Francis; Privates J. M. Hopkins, T. B. 
Stanfield, Q. Vann, Thomas Vann, E. E. 
Walker. In action: Officers, 2; men, 33. 

Company B, Lt. J. T. McLaurin comdg — 
Killed: Sergts. Niles Fawcett, C. W. McAn- 
nally; Corpl. S. H. Burnhart, Privates I. W. 
Benson, J. H. Thomas. Wounded : Privates 
Wm. C. Calhoun, A. J. Campbell, W. M. 
Chandler, G. H. Crosier, Wm. It. Hamhv. N. W. 
Mayfield, B. W. Hopson, J. T. McGehee, A. 
S. Roberts, Isaac Stein. In action: Officers: 
3 ; men, 34. 

Company C, Capt. D. U. Barziza comdg — 
Killed : Privates A. Herndon, Y. A. Talbet, G. 
W. White, W. S. Kirk. Wounded: Capt. D. 
U. Barziza ; Sergts. James Galloway, E. A. 
Wood; Privates J. W. Langston, H. Van Du- 
sen. Missing: Private J. H. Griffin. In ac- 
tion : Officers, 3 ; men, 18. 

Company D, 1st Lt. Ed Dugan comdg — 
Killed : 2d Lt. T. I. Johnson, Private James 
Whitehead. Wounded : 2d Lt. A. D. Jeffries, 
Corpl. R. J. Burges, Privates Thomas Cox, 
Richard Jones, John R. Jefferson, R. H. 
Rhodes. In action : Officers, 3 ; men, 20. 

Company E, 1st Lt. J. C. Billinffsly comdg — 
Killed : Sergt. R. S. Dean, Corpl. J. L. Rogers, 
Privates P. C. Bible, J. B. Clark, T. L. Dunk- 
lin, B. G. Edwards. Wounded : Privates W. 
A. Paraplin, W. S. Robinson, R. M. Jones, C. 
M. Whitehead, L. C. Peters. Missing: C. A. 
Wideman. In action: Officers, 2; men, 24. 

Company F, 2d Lt. L. P. Hugnes comdg — 
Killed : Private Simon Wolf. Wounded : Pri- 
vates James Alford, Wm. F. Floyd, James P. 
Kindred. Albert Sneed. In action: Officers, 
2; men, 35. 

Company G, Capt. E. H. Bassett comdg — 
Killed : M. E. Haddon. Wounded : Privates J. 
W. T. Mavs, J. W. Montgomery, Walter Wil- 
son. Missing: Lt. T. C. Buffington. In ac- 
tion: Officers, 4; men, 45. 



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Company H, Capt. J. T. Hunter comdg — 
Killed: 2cl Lt. C. E. Jones, privates T. A. 
Brent, E. W. Ransom, H. C. Watson, R. C. 
Dawson, S. P. King, S. W. Wynne. Wounded : 
Capt. J. T. Hunter, 2d Lt. M. C. Holmes, Pri- 
vates B. F. Bullock, Jas. Conally, J. H. Sharp, 
Lewis Lavanteur, W. C. Uny, B. B. Wilkes, in 
action : Officers, 3 ; men, 32. 

Company I, Captain C. M. Winkler comdg — • 
Killed: Sergt. T. R. Morris, Privates J. R. 
Beasley, R. N. Rea, W. P. Spence, J. M. Mc- 
Morris. Wounded: Privates H. F. Black, J. 
H. Herbert, R. T. Miller, G. W. Foster, W. T. 
Smith, E. S. Cr.ibb, J. A. Foster, Tbo?. Ken- 
nady, J. M. Lummert. Missing: R. W. Craw- 
ford. In action : Officers, 1 ; men, 40. 

Company K, Capt. W. H. Martin comdg — 
Killed : Sergt. Henry Martin, Private W. F. 
Whitaker. Wounded : Corpl. Hugh Carter, Pri- 
vates M. H. Hodys, C. P. Weisenser. In action : 
Officer, 1 ; men, 50. 

Total— Killed, 34. Wounded, 61. Missing, 
4. In action : Officers, 31 ; men, 336. 

BOONSBOROUGH GAP, SEPTEMBER 14, 1862. 

Col. J. C. G. Key comdg. 

Company A, Capt. S. H. Darden comdg — 
In action : Officers, 3 ; men, 33. 

Company B, 1st Lt. J. T. McLaurin comdg — 
In action : Officers, 3 ; men, 29. 



Company C, Lt. M. Livingston comdg — In 
action : Officers, 2 ; men, 18. 

Company D, Lt. E. Duggan comdg — In ac- 
tion : Ofl'icer, 1 ; men, 23. 

Company E, 1st Lt. J. C. Billingsly comdg — 
Missing: Geo. Creed. In action: Otlieers, 2; 
men, 20. 

Company F, Lt. L. P. Hughes comdg — Miss- 
ing: E. F. Wallace. In action: Oiiicer, 1; 
men, 20. 

Company G, Capt. R. H. Bassett comdg — 
Wounded: J. W. Thomas. Missing: R. A. 
Beecher. In action: Officers, 2; men, 40. 

Company H, Lt. John Roach of Company G, 
comdg — In action: Men, 20. 

Company I, Capt. C. M. Winkler comdg — 
Missing: Privates J. T. Green, W. R. Jeffer- 
son. Inaction: Officers, 2 ; men, 18. 

Company K, Capt. W. H. Martin comdg — 
Wounded: Private P. Price. Missing: L. D. 
Champion. In action : Officer, 1 ; men, 23. 

Total — Wounded, 2. Missing, 6. In action: 
Officers, 17; men, 244. 

From the remainders of the "Papers" noth- 
ing can be deciphered except that Sergt. John 
Elliott, field and staff, was wounded at Sharps- 
burg; Privates A. J. Lane, J. J. Pickering, 
Company K, were wounded in some action; 
and Lieut. R. B. Martin, Company K, waa 
killed at Knoxville. 



PRISONERS CAPTURED FROM FIRST TEXAS 

REGIMENT. 



Gettysburg — Company D: Privates L. W. 
Thomas, Wm. Day. Company F: Private L. 
D. Rock. Company H: Sergt. S. B. Briley; 
Privates I. A. Counts, W. D. Middleton. I. P. 
Mullins, I. C. King, James Tubb, I. H. Rudd, 
F. M. Emboy, L. L. Evans. Company I: Pri- 
vates S. H. Oliphant, L. A. Boon, A. Miller. 
Company K: Sergt. John Lord; Corpl. Wm. 
White; Privates W. A. Shews. R. C. Tucker. 
Company L: Privates F. Swarting, W. C. 
Taylor, H. N. Farquer, Frank Nichols, Henry 
Shultv. Nurses left with the wounded of Com- 
pany L : Austin Jones, I. C. McCorquedale, W. 
Hoskins. 



Chickamauga — Company A : Corpl. J. E. 
Hawkins. Company D: Private J. E. Dunk- 
lin. Company G : Privates W. C. Wren, M. 
Hamley. S. R. Burroughs. Company I : Pri- 
vate I. Weatherhead. Company L: Private John 
Coffee. 

Knoxville — Company I : Private E. M. Oli- 
ver. Company M: Lieut. W. Cecil. 

Totals — Gettvsburg, 27; Chickamauga, 7; 
Knoxville, 2—36. 

The above is all I have any knowledge of. 
There were more taken at Knoxville, but I 
have received no list. 

D. C. Cady. 



CONDITION OF THE BRIGADE. 



Austin, Texas, October 25, 1864. 

To His Excellency, P. Murrah, Governor of 
Texas: — I lave the l.onor to respectfully repre- 
sent to you tl;e condiuon of the First, Fourth 
and Fifth Regiments, Texas Volunteer Infan- 
try, composing, in the main, the Texas Brigade, 
Army of Northern Virginia. These troops 
left their homes in the summer of 18G1, at the 
opening of war, upon the call of their coun- 
tr}'. They have alone represented our Lone 
Star State in the vital struggle for Southern 
independence on the plains of Virginia; and 
in addition to their services in Virginia, they 
particirated in the eventful campaign of last 
fall and winter in Georgia and Tennessee. 
These Regiments entered the service originally 
with a little short of 1,000 men each. In 
the spring of 18G3 they each received about 
350 recruits, making the whole number about 
1,300 to each regiment, and near 4,000 in all. 
The deaths from disease is near 400 to the 
regiment or about 1,200 in all. The deaths 
in battle have been over 300, or about 1.000 in 
all. The number disabled from casualties in 
battle, and other causes, is about 1,500; leav- 
ing less than 300 able for service and of this 
number there are many who, from wounds re- 
ceived in battle, are unable to endure the long 
marches incident to an active campaign, the 
actual casualties in battle being greater than 
the original number of men in each regiment. 
They have participated in more than twenty 
battles, in five of which they lost, in killed and 
wounded, more than half their numbers. These 
statistics are alluded to for the purpose of ac- 
counting to your excellency for the reduced 
number of these regiments. Repeated efforts 
have been made to recruit these regiments by 
sending recruiting officers to Texa?, and by writ- 
ten appeals to both people and authorities, all 
of which have failed. Believing that the shat- 
tered ranks of these war-worn regiments can 
be filled by allowing them to return home, 
where alone there is material to recruit them; 
and believing, as I do, that, unless they are re- 
cruited, but a short time will have passed until 
the last one of that gallant band will have 
"fought his last battle," and that the Texas 
Brigade will live but in name, a fate I can not 
but believe that their gallantry, as well as the 
fair name of Texas forbids, I address your ex- 
cellency, and ask that you will ask of the Presi- 
dent that the remaining men and officer? of 
these regiments be furloughed the coming win- 
ter, and allowed to return home to recruit. I 
have not a doubt, if trinsfers are allowed from 
other commands wherever such transfers will not 
reduce the companies from which they are tak- 
en below the minimum number, that these regi- 
ments can, in a short time, be filled with fine 



material and without injury to either the ser- 
vice or other commands ; and, once recruited, 
their whole history sustains me in giving the 
assurance that they will, with promptness and 
alacrity, obey orders without regard to wlut part 
of our Confederacy those orders may carry 
them. I am. Governor, very respectfully, your 
obt. servt., J. B. Robertson, Brig. Genl. 

REPORT TO GOVERNOR LUBBOCK. 

To His Excellency, F. R. Lubbock, Austin — 
Sir: I have the honor herewith to send j'ou 
statement showing casualties, changes, etc., of 
my Regiment, Fifth Texas Volunteers. It is 
proper to remark that of the 272 returned for 
duty there are nearly 100 who having recently 
joined me from hospitals, are weak and feeble, 
and can not be calculated on for a march of 
any extent. I do not estimate my actual 
strength in an action, should one come on soon, 
at more than 150. Out of those present I have 
forty-five barefooted, and two-thirds of them 
are nearly so. Our supply of clothing and 
blankets is very limited. Of the 512 absent 
sick and wounded very few will probably join 
us this winter, and many will have to be dis- 
charged. The health of those present is toler- 
ably good ; no serious sickness. The Regiment 
must be filled up from some source before it 
can be made efficient. 

I have the honor to be Your Excellency's 
obt. servt., J. B. Robertson, Col. Comdg. 

List of officers and men belonging to the 
Fifth Texas Regiment now in the hands of the 
enemy as prisoners of war, taken at Gettys- 
burg, Pa. : 

Officers— Col. R, M. Powell; Capt. J. D. 
Roberdeau, Company B; Lt. Thos. Harper, 
Company E; Lt. .J. E. Cobb, Company F; Lt. 
Bean, Company G ; Capt. R. W. Hubert, Lt. 
B. H. N. Hurt, Lt. J. M. Alexander, Com- 
pany K. 

Enlisted men — Company A : Sergt. B. C. 
Simpson; Privates C. S. Settles, J. H. Garri- 
son, A. H. Edey. Company B : Pratt. Hare, 
Trainer, Wilson, Woodhouse, John?on, Hunt, 
Terrell. Companv C : Srgt. N. P. Moss ; Corpl. 
G, A. Shillins:; Privates A. B. Allison, J. M. 
Wallace, T. R. Pistole, J. H. Poole, D. 0. H. 
Coston, B. D. Nunnery. Company D: Sr?t. R. 
A. Brantley; Corpl. L. Mitchell; Privates R. 
Abernathy. E. Burke, C. Shinnsky, J. W. Cot- 
ton, Erkridge. G. A. Grant, C. Kearse. E. Lack- 
man, W. McGilrnrv. M. Murphv. I. C. Nelms, 
K. 1. Page, T. P.' Williamson,' W. P. Powell. 
Company E: I. Daniels. Company F: F. 0. 
Yates, A. Bodwin, C. D. Brashear. Company 
G: T. M. Bagby, S. P. Allison, M. W. Black- 
man, R. Henderson, G. A. Jones, Jno. Moore, 



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S. H. Walker, A. Jackson. Company 11 : J. 
V. Stephenson. Company I : H. Martin, W. 
H. Short, J. R. Thomas/H. 0. Robertson, H. 
S. Tarver J. A. Halluni. Compiny K : Srfft. 
N. B. McKinnon ; Corpls. J. W. Stevens, J. R. 
Towns: Privates Jas. Butler, John Julien, W. 
H. Jfatthews, B. F. Meekins, J. W. Matthews, 
C. W. Meece. 

Taken at Chickamauga — M. L. Steel, Com- 
pany A : John Morrisay, Company B ; T. M. 
Lee, Company C ; R. B. Mays, J. L. Stewart, 
J. H. Odam, Company G ; Stephen Driscol, 
Company I; J. W. McCov, Company K; John 
C. Tiitt! Company F. 

February 25, 1864. 

Price, Capt. and A. A. G. 



FAREWELL OF GEN. J. B. ROBERTSON 
TO HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 

Headquarters Texas Brigade, near Bristol, 

April 9, 1864. 

Soldiers : Having shared in the toils, priva- 
tions and trials of the Texas Birigade from its 
organization, during which period it has, by its 



valor, enrolled its name high upon the pages of 
our country's history, it is with the deepest feel- 
ings of regret that I now separate from you. 
After an association sealed by so many sacrifices 
and cemented by their blood, with so many evi- 
dences of confidence and affection on the part 
of the officers and men, this separation is like 
severing the strongest family ties. My highest 
ambition was to have shared your toils and tri- 
umphs as long as there was left an arm to bear 
your victorious flag, and by a discharge of my 
whole duty, merit the confidence with which 
I have been so highly honored. With a mind 
saddened by the remembrance of ties broken, 
and with the i riyer Ihit God, in His mercy, will 
guard, protect, and bless you, I bid you farewell. 

J. B. Robertson. 

If every comrade could see the defaced rolls 
at Washington and realize how impossible it is 
to decipher the half-spelt names, he would care- 
fully inspect the casualty list and list of those 
who surrendered at Appomattox and see if he 
could not help rectify them before it is forever 
too late. We will all soon be gone and oppor- 
tunity forever lost. 



ROLL OF OFFICERS AND MEN 

Belonging to Hood's Texas Brigade who Surrendered at Appomattox Court 

House, April 9, 1869. 



FIRST TEXAS. 

F. S. Bass, Colonel commanding regiment. 
Jno. H. Leete, Adjutant. 

G. A. Merritt, As-istant Surgeon. 
D. K. Rice, Captain Company C. 
Wm. A. Bedell, Captain Company L. 
Jno. N. Wilson, Captain Company K. 
J. J. Quarles, Captain Company G. 

A. W. Buckner, First Lieutenant Company C. 

A. A. Aldrich, First Lieutenant Company I. 

H. H. Robinson, First Lieutenant Co. A. 

T. A. Ardrev, First Lieutenant Company K. 

D. M. ]\To!lynatt, First Lieutenant Co. G. 

A. C. Ol'vnr, First TJeutenant Company D. 

M. C. Noble, Second Lieutemnt Company F. 

Wm. M. Berryman, Second Lieutenant Com- 
pany I. 

Sam P. To.rbctt, Second Lieutenant Com- 
pany H. 

W. A. Forte, Hospital Steward. 

COMPANY A. 

Second Sergt. A. Alford ; Private G. 
Mathews. 

COMPANY c. 

Fourth Sergt. J. N. Freeman; Privates 0. G. 



Armstronsi, J. W. Armstrong, H. F. M. Free- 
man, J. P. Neil. 

COMPANY D. 

Second Sergt. D. F. Storey, Third Sergt. E. 
C. Powell, First Corpl. J. T. Dixon; Privates 
A. J. Adams, W. L. Durham, G. F. Moss, E. W. 
Oliver, J. W. Smith, S. L. Davenport, P. H. 
Glaze, W. 0. Moore, F. T. Oliver, J. L. Allen. 

COMPANY E. 

Fourth Sergt. W. H. Coleman ; Privates J. 
A. Clark, S. F^ Perry, G. F. Heard, F. M. Mays, 
R. G. Sands. T. H. I^nsley, J. T. Longino, J. 
W. Trowbridge, S. T. Watson. 

COMPANY F. 

Privates J. M. Snowden, A. S. Crarey. 

COMPANY G. 

First Sergt. G. W. Chambers, Second Sergt. 
W. P. Bowen, Fourth Sergt. J. Parker, First 
Corpl. J. R. Keeling; Privates L. A. Adams, J. 
W. Davis, F. M. Hopkins, T. F. Muin, E. M. 
Mathews, J. Lewellcn, T. G. Seay, W. B. Henry, 
J. A. Knox, Jas. Ward. S. F. Black, D. B. 
Chambers, H. Darnell, G. W. Kennedy, J. W. 
Mathews, B. Y. Milan, J. M. Petty, W. J. 



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Watts, W. B. Kimbrough, M. A. Knox, R. F. 
Wren, A. P. Cooke. 

COMPANY H. 

First Sergt. H. G. Hickman, Fourth Sergt. 
Geo. Hollinswortli, Fifth Sergt. C. C. Baker, 
First Corpl. J. E. Evans, Second Corpl. W. 
H. Moore; Privates P. A. Blanton, T. II. Ed- 
wards, N. Hollinsworth, J. A. Knight, J. M. 
Herrington, J. Laflin, J. P. Surratt, Jas. Bol- 
ton, A. J. Fry, J. Honoessburger, Joe A. 
Knight, T. B. Davidson, L. G. McKinsie, A. N. 
Fennell. 

COMPANY I. 

Second Sergt. K. F. Emmons, Fifth Sergt. D. 
B. Bush, Commissirv Sergt. A. Aldrich, First 
Corpl. J. M. Dranhorn ; Privates J. Harris, F. 
M. Morris, T. W. H. McCall, D. M. McLean, 
Chas. Scully. 

COMPANY K. 

Second Sergt. 0. T. Hanks, Third Sergt. H. 
S. Bennett, Third Corpl. J. Brandon, Fourth 
Corpl. W. F. Brooks; Privates 0. T. Hail, A. J. 
Pressl'e, H. C. Powell, A. J. Wilson, B. D. 
Dunham, W. H. Watson, Joe 0. Brown, S. N. 
Peterson, J. 0. Noble, Geo. W. Menefree. 

COMPANY L. 

Third Sergt. J. C. Pratt, Fourth Sergt. W. A. 
Shelton; Privates Samuel Clarke, J. Dillon, M. 
Garrity, John McCarty, R. E. Stoddard, W. B. 
Von Hutton, M. L. Wasmer, R. A. Curtis, L. F. 
Delardenier, T. L. McCartv, G. A. Merke, H. 
Soultze, A. W. Wood, Wm. Hoskins, Jas. Welch. 

COMPANY M. 

First Sergt. T. W. Peary, Second Sergt. W. 
A. Roach, Third Sergt. F. M. Slater, Fourth 
Sergt. G. B. Lundy, Fifth Sergt. D. H. Ham- 
ilton, Drummer S. S. Watson ; Privates B. J. 
Caps, W. F. Enfinger, S. Stubblefield. W. T. 
White, S. Demirrv. T. E. Hathorn, W. Tullous, 
J. A. White, Jo Wilson. 



FOURTH TEXAS. 

C. M. Winkler, Lieutenant-Colonel command- 
ing regiment. 

W. H. Martin. Major. 

J. C. Jones, Surgeon. 

J. T. McLaurin, Captain Company B. 

R. H. Frank, Captain Company D. 

J. T. Hunter, Captain Company H. 

E. T. Kindred, Captain Company F. 

Haywood Brahan, First Lieutenant Com- 
pany F. 

N. J. Mills, First Lieiitenant Company I. 

J. B. Boyd, First Lieutenant Company C. 

J. S. Spivey, First Lieutenant Company H. 

J. J. Atkinson, First Lieutenant Company G. 

Wm. P. Ford, Second Lieutenant Company B. 



G. E. Lynon, First Lieutenant Company A. 

J. W. Duran, Second Lieutenatil Compauy I. 

Robert H. Leonard, Hospital Steward. 

J. R. P. Jett, T. D. Herst, J. H. Collins, D. 
H. Foster, D. J. Goode, Chas. Warner, P. R. 
Stamps and Frank Veal, Musicians. 

COMPANY A. 

Second Sergt. P. H. Walker, Third Sergt. W. 
D. Mooney, Fourth Sergt. P. J. Deel; Privates 
T. W. Fletcher, J. H. Gunn, J. S. Jones. W. H. 
Pittman, P. Thompson, J. M. Fields W. A. 
Hall, A. J. Martin, T. S. Simmons, W. B. Wal- 
ker. 

COMPANY B. 

Fifth Sergt. W. J. Flanniken, First Cc.rp. 
J. E. Jones, Second Corp. W. J. Tannehill, 
Fourth Corp. A. R. Masterson; Privates L. B. 
Co.x, A. A. Durfee. N. w. Mayfield, A. R. Rice, 
J. K. P. Dunson J. B. Henderson, A. T. Luck- 
ett, S. P. Teague, D. A. Todd. 

COMPANY C. 

Second Sergt. J. M. Adams; Privates W. 
Geary, B. F. Merriman, S. W. Montgomery, W. 
Hearne. 

COMPANY D. 

First Sergt. Jas. Patterson, Second Sergt. 
A. E. Wilson, Third Sergt. R. A. Burges, 
Fourth Sergt. S. A. Jones, Fifth Sergt. Z. J. 
Harmon, First Corp. J. M. White; Privates W. 
H. Burges, A. A. Dimmitt, J. B. Gregory, G. 
W. Little, F. C. White, J. S. Daniel, W. Dunn, 
J. F. Holmes, John Rodgers, B. Schmidt, G. A. 
Hodges. 

COMPANY E. 

First Sergt. P. M. Ripley, Second Sergt. W. 
W. Dunklin, First Corp. E." C. Sharp ; Privates 
S. J. Billingsley, W. E. Duncan, W. M. King, 
F. C. Mullins, jas. Robertson, H. B. Rogers. R. 
W. Umberson, G. N. Chenault, Samuel Fos- 
sett, W. H. Burton, W. A. Pamplin, N. N. Rip- 
ley, G. M. Taylor, P. D. Williams. 

COMPANY F. 

First Sergt. J. D. Murray; Privates C. A. 
McAli=te.r, H. G. Abbott, S. H. Hardoin, Jas. 
Alford, W. H. Dunn, L. T. Pogue. 

COMPANY G. 

First Sergt. L. H. Barry, Second Sergt. W. 
M. Baines, Third Sergt. W. A. Stacey,' Fifth 
Sergt. W. J. Grissett, Third Corp. J. F. Mar- 
tin, Fourth Corp. B. F. Kellev; Privates Jas. 
Aiken, D. R. Blnckshear, E. C Davis, C. G. 
Mooring, S. A. Midkiff, H. F. Plaster. G. S. 
Quails, H. E. Shafer, T. G. Wallingford, J. J. 
Blacksbear, J. J. Cooke, G. W. Jone.s, W. A. 
Martin, J. T. Muse, J. M. Pinekney, J. S. Rey- 
nolds, A. J. Stewart, H. F. Williams. 



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COMPANY H. 

Captain J. T. Hunter, First Lieut. J. S. Spiv- 
ey. Fourth Sergt. \V. T. C. May, First Corp. 
R.' H. Stewart; Privates T. C. Dillard, R. M. 
May, Thos. A. Wynne, H. Keiser, W. A. Watson. 

COMPANY I. 

Fourth Sergt. R. G. Halloway; Privates W. 
B. Allen, J. W. Crabtree, H. L. Harrison, J. W. 
Holderman. L. W. Rice, W. W. Templeton, M. 
Barry, A. M. Crossland, J. J. Harripon, J. H. 
Orendorff, J. R. Shaw, J. H. Treadwell, J. C. 

'^^1^"- COMPANY K. 

First Sergt. J. H. Kinibrno<jh, Third Sergt. 
M. H. Hodge, Fifth Sergt. T. C. Banks; Pri- 
vates Jos. Baker, J. M. Campbell, M. Chapman, 
J. F. Ellege. L. J. Guthrie. J. J. Pickering, 
A. Boles, L. D. Champion, W. T. Brown, J. F. 
Gibbons, H. A. Larroo, J. Rice. 



FIFTH TEXAS. 

Colonel, R. M. Powell. 
Surgeon, John J. Roberts. 
Adjutant, Wm. P. McGowen. 
Ensign, Wm. H. Clark. 
Sersreant-^Iajor, John M. Smither. 
Ordnance Sergeant, A. T. Cross. 
Hospital Steward, W. H. Chadwick. 

COMPANY A. 

Second Sergt. Chas. F. Settle, Third Sergt. 
Joseph H. Shepherd ; Privates Lewis Coleman, 
George W. Douglas, James Downey, Wm. A. 
George, John T. Huett, James E. Landes, James 
Stanger. company b. 

First Lieut. Ben Baker, Musician Albert H. 
Carter; Privates Emmil Besch, W. H. Carlton, 
David M. Curry, Wesley Cherry, Thos. T. De 
Graffenried, John W. Johnson, Joseph C. Kin- 
dred, J. S. Obenshain. 

COMPANY c. 

Captain J. E. Anderson, Second Sergt. John 
A. Green ; Privates J. P. Copeland, H. T. Dris- 
coll. E. W. James, T. R. Pistole, J. E. Swindler, 
P. H. West, H. P. Traweek. 

COMPANY D. 

Captain Wm. T. Hill, First Sergt. Jno. C. 
Hill, Second Corp. Richard Hardy; Privates 
Thos. J. Birdwell. Bernard Carrington, Joel 
Minshew, Martin L. Gilbert, Anthony F. Gold- 
ing, Abner M. Hinson, Thos. J. Lewis, Robert 
Staunton, Wm. A. Travlor, Alfred W. Under- 
wood, Wm. P. Wilson, Wm. P. Powell, M. D. 

COMPANY E. 

Second Lieut. Bowling Eldridge, Third Sergt. 
Wm. C. T.cGrand, Fourth Sergt. Sidney V. 
Patrick, Fifth Sergt. George B. Williams; Mu- 
Bician, James Handeman; Musician, John F. 



Fields; Privates M. A. J. Evans, Rufus K. Fel- 
der, W. H. Gray. Wm. H. Innes, Wm. R. Lott 
Wm. H. McAlister, David 0. Patrick, Simon B. 
Smith, Frank M. Smith, Joseph W. Wallace, 

COMPANY F. 

Captain Watson S. Williams, First Sergi 
Henry V. Angell, Second Sergt. Cadmus Wil- 
born; Privates Basil C. Brashear, Julius Beck- 
man, Sam'l E. Perley, Joseph C. Ross, John 
V. Sloan, Henrv C. Shea, Ranso.n Swiney, 
Thomas W. Taylor, Frank G. Whittington. 

COMPANY G. 

First Lieut. Edward Williams, First Sergt. 
Lucilius W. Caldwell, Third Sergt. Wm. W. 
Smith, Fourth Sergt. James Pool, Third Corp. 
James P. Smith ; Privates Geo. A. Branard, 
Wm. T. Dyer, Hugh C. Jackson, Elias B. Me- 
Aninch, Dan'l McDonald, David H. Mayes, Wm, 
A. Nabours, Constantine P. Nance, John B. 
Small, Andrew J. Tomlinson. 

COMPANY H. 

Second Lieut. D. W. McDonell, First Sergt 
Jacob Hemphill, Second Ser^. G. M. Sims, 
Third Sergt. Wm. Grayless, Fourth Sergt. S. 
W. Small; JIusician, Wm. Cooper; Privates 
A. D. Brinklev, A. H. Butler, James Currv, J. 
A. Chesser, Willis B. Darby, Milton P. Foster, 
P. K. Garee, Thos. S. Haynie, George H. John- 
son, Thompson Kelly, Harvev Rose, J. Shields, 
J. A. Shaw, James" M. Small, S. E. Walters, 
Robt. T. Wilson, John Reader, Wm. Woods. 

COMPANY I. 

Captain Ben I. Franklin, First Lieut. Dimas 
R. Ponce, First Sergt. George W. Clampitt, 
Second Serirt. Wm. 0. Morgan, Third Sergt. 
Sam'l D. Williams, Fourth Sergt. John S. Haf- 
ner; Privates Ben J. Baldwin, Fritz Bettis, 
Willis G. Blue, James R. Clutt, D. H. Carter, J. 
W. Deane, James A. Eatman. B. S. Fitzgerald, 
Robert Fleming, Curran Holmes, A. W. Holt, 
John D. Howie, Jonathan A. Love, Wm. R. Mc- 
Ree. 

COMPANY K. 

Second Lieut. J. M. Alexander, First Sergt. 
T. F. Meece, Fourth Sergt. A. B. Green, Fourth 
Corp. J. F. Ford; Musician, J. W. Smith; 
Musician, W. S. Sandall ; Privates R. A. Ash- 
ley, J. M. Bowen. J. D. Galvert, A. W. Dunn, 
A. J. Fairchilds. W. G. Hendly. Henrv C. Hir- 
ams, Mark A. Hubert, E. Kirkland, W. M. Mc- 
Donald, B. F. Meekins. D. A. Rowe, U. P. 
Stephenson, S. D. Waldrop, W. B. Young. 

COMPANY D. 

Privates M. A. Lampkin, J. W. Ewing. 

COMPANY C. 

Private J. T. Allison. 



FORMATION OF HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 

ASSOCIATION. 



"Hood's Texas Brigade Association" was 
formed May 24, 1872, and had its first meeting 
at Hutehin's House, Houston, Texas. 

On motion of General J. B. Robertson, Ger- 
eral Jno. B. Hood was called to the chair and 
Major Robt. Burns requested to act as secretan'. 
General Hood made a speech and said objent 
of meeting:; was to organize the survivors if the 
old brigade into an association to be called Po- 
nnion Association of Hood's Texas Brigade 
Army of Northern Virginia. 

Colonel Winkler offered resolution as follows, 
which was carried: There shall be chosen :i 
President, Vice President, Secretary and Treas- 
urer, to hold office for one year. There shall 
be an Executive Committee, composed of two 
members from each Regiment, whose duty it 
shall be to gather up and collect all matter for 
a history, and report at next meeting. 

Further: The object of this Association is 
for the purpose of friendly and social reunion 
of the survivors of the brigade, and to collect 
all data for rolls and history and to perpetuate 
all anecdotes, incidents and many things con- 
nected therewith and to succor the needy among 
its members. 

Further: Notice of time and place of next 
reunion shall be given at each previous meet- 
ing, and there shall be a reunion once every 
year. 

Officers e'ected at this first reunion of Hood's 
Texas Brigade Association were: — 

President— Col. C. M. Winkler. 
Vice President — Gen. J. B. Robertson. 
Secretary and Treasurer — Mai. J. H. Little- 
field. 

At this meeting there were sixty-five present. 
Austin, Texas, June 27, 1873, was time and 
place of next meeting. 

Regularly year after year Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade ba? continued to meet in reunion. The 
fourteenth reunion, June 27th, 188.5, was held 
at Cameron, Texas, and 26 years later we are to 
hold our 40th reunion, June 28-29th, 1911, at 
same place. Though many comrades who were 
present in 1873 at first reunion have passed 
into the Great Beyond and will not meet in the 
(reunion of 1911, yet we are grateful to a Merci- 
ful Father that there are yet a few left to labor 
for the memory of those who have gone before. 

It seems that various efforts had been made 



during many years to perfect rolls of the 32 
Companies of the three Texas Regiments of 
Hood's Texas Brigade, and to collect data for 
a history as well as to devise means to erect a 
monument, but all in turn had been abandoned. 
At reunion at Sonierville, Texas, June 27-28th, 
1906, Comrade Frank Chilton spoke as follows 
as to history and rolls: 

(Copied from Somerville Minutes, 1906.) 

"Captain Chilton in well chosen remarks 
plead with the Association to speed themselve.? 
in perfecting not only individual, but Company, 
Regimental and Brigade records. He urged 
thit the Confederate soldier was making his- 
tory now more than during the four years of 
war. He cited that amid all the intervening 
forty years (since the war) the history of the 
cause we loved had lived and triumphed over 
all derogatory history and destroying efforts of 
those who loved not the South, but that soon 
the last defender, the last soldier who wore the 
gray would be gone and that while yet living 
it behooved every true man and soldier to leave 
upon record the recollection of every event that 
could affect history. To that end he well said 
that after all were dead and gone, all feuds for- 
got, all animosities buried, that then the im- 
partial historian would ransack every available 
source for matter upon which to build true 
history. Then it was he said that the records 
left of Hood's Texas Brigade Association would 
be carefully scanned for an absolute correct his- 
tory of that special military formation, for 
where better would they expect to aret true his- 
tory of the deeds of Hood's Texas Brigade than 
from the records of its Association that had 
been an Association of its survivors ever since 
the war. 

" I will not ask," he said, "what our records 
say up to this date, but I do plead that from this 
very meeting it shall be our pledged determina- 
tion to perfect our Association minutes in order 
that our record may be full, pure and white. 

"I have prepared," he said, "several resolu- 
tions covering this subject, which I shall offer 
and speak to at the proper time, in regular 
stage of proceedings, but there are two special 
resolutions that I would mention just here. One 
is that we prepare before next meeting through 
duly appointed committees from each Company 
of every Regiment of the Briaade, a full anil 
complete roster of the original formation of each 



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Company that composed the several Regiments 
of the Brigade, with a full account of what be- 
came of each man to date, when died or whether 
yet living, and where at. After having done 
this, it \\ill be an easy matter for the Associa- 
tion in its regular work to keep up with sur- 
vivors of the Brigade until its last member has 
passed away." 

"Comrade Chilton called attention to what 
he had lately done in preparing a complete roll 
of his Company (Co. H, Fourth Texas) and 
that Gov. Lanham and Adjt.-Gen. Hulen had 
placed said roll beside the records of the Alamo 
and Battle of San Jacinto in the office of the 
State Librarian at yVustin for the benefit of all 
coming generations, and he said the same could 
and ought to be accomplislied as to every Com- 
pany in the Brigade, but that the time was fast 
passing in which to accomplish it." 

Same Minutes record resolution as follows : 

"Comrade F. B. Chilton with appropriate re- 
marks that touched the Association as he de- 
picted the unkind fate of the brave members 
of the Brigade, whose names and whereabouts 
had been lost to the Association roll and who 
when dead went without recncrnition, became 
unknown or not reported. He recited what 
Capt. J. T. Hunter, survivin<T captain of Co. 
H, Hart T. Snpp and himself, as a committee 
from Co. H. Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's 
Texas Brigade, had done towards perfecting the 
history of that Company for all time through a 
perfect and complete bistorv of the Company 
and every man connected therewith from the 
day of its organization up to the present mo- 
ment, and how said .roll had been so honorably 
deposited among state archives at Austin, and 
he feelingly spoke of this being the time, before 
it was forever too late, for every survivor to 
pledge himself to do iustice to the heroic dead 
and srallant living of their respective Companies. 
To thit end Comrade Chilton offered the fol- 
lowing resolution: — 

"Resolved that a committee of one or more 
be appoint 'd by the in-coming president from 
each Companv that composed the formation of 
the several Regiments of Hood's Texas Brigade, 
whose duty it shall be to get up complete ros- 
ters of their original Companies together with 
the fate of each man during the war and up to 
the present time, and re] ort with said rosters 
to the next reunion of this Association, in order 
that said rolls may be placed in a strong box 
among the archives of the State of Texas at 
Austin, where labeled as 'Rosters of Companies 
of Hood's Texas Brigade' they may make cor- 
rect history for the Brigade and its members 



long after this Association and every member 
thereof shall have passed away." 

Resolution was unanimously adopted. 

It will be seen that Comrade Chilton offered 
at Somerville, as evidence as to what all other 
Companies could and must do before it was for- 
ever too late, perfected roll of Company H, 
Fourth Texas, and Gen. J. B. Policy in his 
speech, same day, in behalf of Brigade, in reply 
to address of welcome, used Judge Norman G. 
Kittrell's "Memorial to Company H, Fourth 
Texas," so dedicated when he beheld their roll 
and saw the action of Gov. Lanham thereon. 

Somerville minutes read : — 

"In response to the adresses of welcome, Gen. 
J. B. Policy in behalf of the Brigade Associa- 
tion replied in fitting terms and spoke at length 
of the appreciation felt by the old soldiers in 
being so eloquently spoken of and so elegantly 
cared for by their friends and admirers of a 
younger generation. Gen. Polley recounted in 
thriling words a few of the glorious deeds of 
bis fellow comrades and touched gently on those 
who liad given their lives for the cause they 
so loved. He spoke of the early formation of 
the Companies, Regiments and the Brigade and 
named the original officers and their sncces=ori 
and how few now remained of that once glori- 
ous band of brave men. Taking from his pocket 
a copy of 'The Roster of a Heroic Band, Co. H, 
Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, 
Army of Northern Virginia,' Gen. Policy told 
of the terrible mortality of Company H and 
read the editorial of Judge Norman G. Kittrell, 
headed 'A Memorial of Texas Valor' and dedi- 
cated to Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment. 
Gen. Polley said it was but one Company of 
Hood's Brigade and that what was said of it 
might safely be said of all other Companies of 
the Brigade, and that the truth of the editorial 
ought to be treasured by all lovers of brave men 
everywhere. 

A MEMORIAL OF TEXAS VALOR. 

"Poets have sung in deathless numbers, his- 
torians have written in imperishable phrases, 
artists have painted with the skill of inspira- 
tion and sculptors chiseled with the touch of 
genius, to the end that there might be perpetu- 
ated the memory of heroic deeds; but genius 
never yet hath paid tribute to any who in sub- 
limity of courage, unselfishness of service, he- 
roic devotion to duty and in measure of forti- 
tude in the hour of adversity rose to loftier 
levels than did those, the record of whose names 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



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and deeds The Chronicle is proud to perpeuate 
on this page. 

"We are yet too near the day and time of 
these men to properly appreciate their glorious 
record, and to give them that portion of praise, 
that fullness of fame which they have so nobly 
won. 

"Time and distance have not yet cast a halo 
and glamour rbout their names. We do not look 
upon them through the magnifying mists of an- 
tiquity and tradition. The grave has not 3'et hid- 
den all of them ; fome of them yet linger among 
us, and we meet them in the walks of daily life 
and greet them as friends and neighbors and co- 
workers ; yet these are, and those who have 
passed away were, none the less heroes of the 
truest, loftiest, noblest type. 

"Whosoever offereth his life on the altar of 
duty hath exhibited that measure of love than 
which there is none greater, and hath met the 
divine and highest test of devotion and service. 

"These men when they heard the footsteps 
of an invading foe, with unselfish ardor sprang 
to meet and grapple with him, and unlocking 
from about their necks the arms of mother, and 
wife, and sister, and sweetheart, and with lips 
warm with the kisses and cheeks bedewed with 
the tears of their loved ones, rlanted themselves 
before their homes and firesides and family al- 
tars, bared their breasts to the battle's storm, 
and for four long, weary, wearing, bloody years 
wrought deeds of valor that thrilled the world, 
and covered themselves 'with glory as with a 
garment.' 

"Let all men mark the record ! One hundred 
and forty-five sons of Texas standing on the 
very threshold of life, in the flush and vigor 
of young manhood, go forth to battle ; sixty- 
seven give up their lives, forty-eight grievously 
wounded and disabled, and when endurance of 
hardship, suffering and starvation was no long- 
er possible, and valor unmatchable could no 
longer avail, eleven worn, weary, ragged and 
broken in heart laid down their arms upon a 
soil which their devotion and achievements 
made historic. 

"They moved amid the leaden hail of Gaines' 
Mill as if hastening to a wedding feast. At 
the word of command, they sprang down the 
slope and up the hill at Gettysburg in the face 
of a hundred belching cannon and on that me- 
morable field many a son of Texas 'walked up 
to death as to a friend and from his hand took 



the laurel of fadeless honor.' They stood where 
death ruled the hour at Antietam and in the 
Bloody Angle and crossing bayonets with their 
foes, the living stood upon the dead till the 
blood ran over shoe tops, yet quailed they not, 
but fought like devils and died like heroes. 

"When their beloved and trusted commander 
in all majesty of his matchless manhood, with 
bared head and gleaming sword bade them fol- 
low him into the 'very dunnest smoke' of bat- 
tle at the Wilderness, out of very love of him 
they pnised till weeping he was led to the rear, 
when with a shout that rose above the din of 
the conflict, they fell upon the foe and swept 
him from the field like chaff before the tem- 
pest. 

"Half starved and ragged they staggered 
along the line of march which was tracked with 
blood from their naked feet, but at the bugle 
call to battle they answered with the 'rebel yell' 
and lighted the field with deeds of daring as 
glorious as ever illumined the annals of war. 

"History, fail not to make worthy record of 
their names for tl at page of thine will be bright- 
est whereon is graven the story of their valor 
and their sacrifice ! 

"Poets, sing thou their praises in sublimest 
verse for nobler theme than their devotion and 
their deeds hath ne'er yet any singer stirred to 
song ! 

"Jlinstrels, their hearts attune to loftiest, 
sweetest, most exultant strains, and sweeping 
silvery dactyls from quivering strings chant 
thou the anthem of their glory ! 

"Ye faithful sons and daughters of South- 
land, keep ye aglow on the altar of your hearts 
the flame of devotion to the memories of that 
glorious and glorified cause for which these 
dauntless sons of Texas so served and suffer- 
ed in the defense of which 



'We led the charge on many a field. 
Were first in many a fray ; 
And turned the bloody battle tide 
On many a glorious day.' 






"At the conclusion of Gen. Polley's speech, the 
band broke forth with 'The Bonnie Blue Flag* 
and seemingly with one accord the entire audi- 
ence rose to their feet and keeping time with 
their feet, hands, umbrellas, fans and handker- 
chiefs joined in singing the old song amid the 
fluttering and waving of flags." 



HOW PERFECTING ROLLS TO PRESERVE HOOD'S BRI- 
GADE HISTORY WAS BEGUN AT NAVASOTA REUNION. 

(Houston Chronicle.) 



To My Comrades of Hood's Texas Brigade : 

Having at this late day begun to strive to 
perfect our rolls, write our history and build 
a fitting monument to about 40C0 dead heroes 
of Hood's Brigade, it is time every survivor did 
his best to recall every incident of merit con- 
nected with a past too glorious to go unrecord- 
ed. At reunion held at Somerville, Texas, in 
1906, we made an effort to find out to what 
comrades gold stars were jresented for dis- 
tinguished bravery on field of battle, and fol- 
lowing appears in minutes of said reunion, June 
27, 190G : 

"The Association was honored by the pres- 
ence of Hon. D. C. Giddings, a banker of 
Brenham, who had in his possession a valu- 
able letter written by Hon. John H. Reagan 
to Captain B. Eldridge of Company E, Fifth 
Texas, in which Judge Reagan writes of in- 
teresting history connected with Hood's Texas 
Brigade, wherein a number of gold stars were 
sent by the ladies of Te?^a> to Richmond 
to be given, one each, to the brave?t men who 
had distinguished themselves in battle. Judge 
Reagan said he was not a member of the com- 
mittee nor was he present when the stars were 
awarded and could not give tl e names of those 
who received them. Continuing, Judge Rea- 
gan said: 'I would rather have been able to 
say that I had been a worthy member of Hood's 
Brigade than to have enjoyed all the honors 
which have been conferred upon me. I doubt 
if there has ever been a brigade, or other mili- 
tary organization, in the history of the world 
that equaled Hood's Texas Brigade in the he- 
roic valor and self-sacrificing conduct of its 
members and in the brilliancy of its service.' 
The reading of Judge Reagan's letter was re- 
ceived with tiunders of apphniS3 nnd Mr. Gid- 
dings was thanked for his presence with the 
letter, and was asked to return the grateful 
tha-ks of the Association to Comrade Eldridge 
for the contents of the letter, which was copied 
and filed witli proceedings. 

"It was a.scertiinod through members of the 
Association present that the gold stars men- 
tioned were in part awarded to the following 
named soldiers : 

, "W. C. May. Companv H. Fourth Texas. 

"James Patterson, Companv D, Fourth 
Texas. 

"Cad Welborn. Company F, Fifth Texas. 

"Jake Hemphill. 



"Names of others could not then be ascer- 
tained, but further investigation was ordered 
and report to be made as to other names at 
the next reunion." 

Since said reunion I have written many let- 
ters of inquiry with no satisfactory results, and 
at last reunion, at Navasota, June 27, 1907, I 
again brought up the matter and urged con- 
tinued efforts on the part of every comrade. 
It has been my late good fortune to find a 
clipping from Richmond Dispatch, a paper we 
all know so well, published at Richmond, Va., 
where in February, 18G5, it gives a succinct 
account of the star presentation and publishes 
the grand letter of General Lee, wherein he 
says: "The stars are to be presented to the 
brave men of Hood's Texas Brigade, but where 
all are so meritorious and have done so much 
for the honor of their State, I know it will be 
difficult to select the most worthy." I have 
sent the old, faded, yellow clipping from Rich- 
mond Dispatch of Fdbruary, 1865, to The 
Chronicle, so that they may copy exact from 
original, and have asked them to handle with 
care and return safely to me. It is expected 
that our historian and each comrade will pro- 
vide himself with a copy of The Chronicle 
containing this letter, and the original clip- 
ping will be shown at the next reunion of 
Hood's Brigade Association at Jacksonville, 
Texas, June 26, 1908. 
(From Richmond Dispatch, February, 1865.) 

We learn that a very interesting scene oc- 
curred some days aso in the camp of the Texas 
Brigade (Senator Wigf all's old command), the 
occasion being the presentation of some golden 
stars, designed for the brave men of the brig- 
ade by a lady of Texas, and forwarded through 
the hands of General Lee. 

After brigade inspection, the men were ad- 
dressed by Senator Wigfall in a stirring speech. 
He said that he would be more than man if 
he did not, and less than man if he could not, 
feel deeply and solemnly the changes that had 
taken place, and the absence of the familiar 
faces of his former companions in arms. It was 
I ot to be considered when or wliere soldiers 
die; but how they die. Better a thousand 
tiiues fill the grave of a brave man than be 
(I'c slaves of insolvent knaves and unprincipled 
tyrants. 

The senator reminded his old command that 
the roads were drying up; that a few daya 
would bring the familiar sound of the battle, 



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the roaring of artillery and the rattling of 
the rifles. There was more bloody work to be 
done, and they were to prepare for the fray. 

Senator Wigfall also took occasion to dis- 
pose of the tiresome, though oft repeated story, 
"rich man's war, poor man's tight," should it 
ever come, must certainly fall upon the poor 
man, the man in moderate circumstances, leav- 
ing him no chance to escape. He would in- 
evitably be crushed, whilst the man of wealth 
and talents, and tlie distinguished officer would 
buy or demand protection in any part of the 
world. There would be no refuge for the poor 
man. The vengeance of the enemy would be 
poured upon his head and those of his posterity 
unless he carved out his liberties with his sword 
and bayonet. 

At the conclusion of Senator Wigfall's 
speech the following letter was read from Gen- 
eral Lee: 

"Commanding Officer of Hood's Texas 
Brigade — Headquarters .\rmy Northern Vir- 
ginia, January 21, 1865 — Sir: I have re- 
ceived from 'a young lady of Texas' some gold- 
en stars, which she desires may be presented 
to the brave men of your brigade. Where all 
are so meritorious, and have done so much for 
the honor of their State, I know it will be diffi- 
cult to select the most worthy, but from your 
intimate knowledge of their deeds and conduct 
in action, you can, with more certainty than 
any other, bestow them in accordance with the 
wishes of the donor. I therefore commit them 
to you. They are nine in number, and siid 
to be made of gold too precious for common 
use. 

"As a gift of a lady from their State, who 
has watched with pride their gallantry on ev- 
ery field, and offered dailv prayers to the 
throne of the Almighty for their happiness and 
safety, I feel assured they will be highly ap- 
preciated and long preserved. I have the hon- 
or to be your obedient servant. 

"E. E. Lee, General." 

The stars were presented to the following 
named men : Wm. Durram, Company D, First 
Texas; James Knight, Company H, First Tex- 
as; Corporal James Burke, Company B, Fourth 
Texas; Sergeant James Patterson, Company D, 
Fourth Texas ; Corporal W. C. May, Company 
H, Fourth Texas; Sergeant C. Wilborn, Com- 
pany F, Fifth Texas; Sergeant J. Hemph'U, 
Company H, Fifth Texas; Private J. D. 
Staples, Company E, Third Arkansas ; Pri- 
vate J. W. Cook, Company H, Third Arkan- 
sas. 

No comrade that reads the above can help 
feeling what a heritage has been left all Texas 



in the unstinted words of praise that have been 
so meritoriously bestowed on her soldier snna 
by President Davis, General Lee, General Jack- 
son and every commander who witnessed their 
bravery on the field. 

It is urgently our duty to try and find who 
the young lady was that so generously melted 
her jewels up to make those stars. I remem- 
ber to have heard at the time that the stars 
were made from precious family jewels thit 
were considered honored by being so bestowed. 
It would seem that Mrs. Colonel Winkler could 
give us the name of the donor since she was on 
the spot and must have been at the prfsenta- 
tion. In connection with the mention of stars 
it is absolutely necessary to know who the fair 
lady was so that our history will be explicit 
as to both. How must the heart of every com- 
rade go out in loving gratitude to Major George 
W. Littlefield of Terry's Texas Rangers for his 
magnificent donation of $1000 and to that 
grandest of all men, Hon. John H. Kirby, for 
his princely gift of $4000 to our monument 
fund. 

Let me urge a-ou every one to continue doing 
his best for our perfected rolls, complete his- 
tory and magnificent monument. Send in your 
subscriptions and plead with all others to sub- 
scribe in order that we may erect our monument 
before the last one of us has passed over the 
river to join those who are waiting for us be- 
yond. Faithfully your comrade, 

F. B. Chilton, 
President Hood's Texas Brigade Monument 

Committee; Member Company H, Fourth 

Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of 

Northern Virginia. 



HOOD'S REUNION AT NAVASOTA. 



Captain Chilton Appeals to Veterans to go to Navasota. 
The Ranks are Thinning. Great Preparations Have 
Been Made to Make the Event a Most Happy- 
One. The List of Speakers. 

{Houston Post.) 

Capt. P. B. Chilton has written the follow- 
ing appeal to his old comrades to attend the re- 
union of Hood's Texas Brigade at Navasota, 
June 26 to 28, 1907: 

Houston, Texas, June 1. — Comrades: No 
doubt you read in The Houston Post last Sun- 
day the ?iilendid program gotten up by 
Navasota in honor to Hood's Texas Brigade that 
meets there in reunion June 26-28. It may be 
that some of you have noticed adverse communi- 
cations that have been written and possibly be- 
came influenced thereby, and it is on that ac- 
count this communication is written, which I 



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trust every member of the brigade will see, read 
and heed. 

The clarion tones of Hood when calling his 
brigade to CiUty aroused limp, lame and halt and 
even the hospitals turned out. Today duty with 
us is nearly as imperative as then. You made 
history then ; now you must preserve it. The 
few of us who are left must be up and doing 
before it is forever too late. I?emembcr the un- 
finished work of the last reunion and how im- 
portant it is not to lag in final completion 
before we are all gone, and how necessary that 
not one of you be missing at Xavasota. 

You will see that tlie citizens' program pro- 
vides great intellectual as well as bodily com- 
forts for the four corners of the earth that Nava- 
sota has invited to be present to do honor to her 
hero-guests — Hood's Texas Brigade. You will 
also notice that at 3 p. m. on Tuesday, June 
27th, Hood's Te.xas Brigade Association will be 
called to order by its president and thereafter 
be in regular session for its own business and 
program. 

None of you, I am sure, would willingly miss 
seeing and hearing our own orator-comrade. 
Judge F. Charles Hume, the hero of ^yfauas- 
sas, where six color bearers were in rapid suc- 
cession shot down, and where, in the language 
of the commanding officer, "Sergeant Hume 
took the flag and bore it high above all others 
which were then floating over the bloody field 
as a beacon to our men who had become separ- 
ated from it. Sergeant Hume after bearing the 
flag about 200 yards wi^ also shot down. Being 
near I took the colors from him and, carrying 
them a short distance, I transferred them to 
Private Farthing (afterward killed), who ad- 
vanced with them." Neither could you afford 
to forego the address of Judge N. G. Kittrell, 
an honorary member of our Association, and 
who, though too voung to have been a soldier, 
yet was allied to Hood's Texas Brigade bv blood 
and kin. Again, no reunion of Hood's Brigade 
would be complete without the presence and 
counsel of that king of soldiers and prince of 
good men, wherever you find them, Captain 
William E. Barry. Comrade Barry will make 
the welcome address in behalf of Navasota, and 
all of us know what a feast of welcome 
Billy Barry is, both in words and deeds. 

Among the gems of the occas'on will be the 
address of Hon. T. P. Buffington, son of Capt. 
T. C. Buffington, Caitain Company G, Fourth 
Texas Kegiment. AH in all. the good peo- 
ple of Navasota have arranged a grand enter- 
tainment for the old brigade, and let it be the 
determination of every member to keep up the 
reputation they so well earned in the stormy 
days of the long ago — to do or die. 



Since our last reunion, in close connection 
with that grand old crip] led soldier and present 
Piesident of our Association of survivors. Com- 
rade E. K. Goree of Huntsville, and the perpet- 
ual Secretary and Treasurer of our Association, 
and likewise hero co!or bearer of the First Texas 
Regiment at Gettysburg, Comrade George A. 
Branard of Houston, I have been in correspond- 
ence with the ]\Iilitary Secretary of the United 
States at Washington in regard to getting the 
muster rolls of each regiment and company of 
Hood's Texas Brigade included in the work 
containing the name of every Confederate sol- 
dier, as well as those of the Union army, now 
beinor compiled by act of Congress, which is 
another powerful reason why I hope every mem- 
ber of the brigade will promptly report for duty 
at Navasota. 

I don't have to urge General J. B. Policy to 
be there. He has already said that he will be 
there; that absolutely nothing could keep him 
away. There was a t'me when Comrade Policy 
had but one "charming Nellie," and next to 
duty and Hood's Brigade "she was all the world 
to him," but now he has a "charminc; Nellie" in 
every mother and daughter of the Confederacy. 
Every woman who loves the cause of the Con- 
federacy and honors its memory and soldiers 
is charming to Comrade Pollev. It ought not to 
be necessary, and I don't believe it is, to urge 
Dr. D. C. Jones to be with us. There was a 
time when Hood's Brigade could not do with- 
out the two Jone=e^ — Dr. John C. Jones (dead), 
surgeon of the brigade, and Dr. D. C. Jones, 
surgeon of the Fourth Texas Regiment. Com- 
rade D. C. must remember we can't do without 
him vet, for there is no telling how badly we 
old fellows mi"ht need him at 'most any re- 
union. H we did not have him we mi<rht not 
have the boy that so honors his grandfather's 
command. We need Comrade Jones more pleas- 
antly now than we used to in 1861. 

There is another among our noble comrades 
we must not miss, because as yet there has been 
no reunion without him. H was of him Hood 
said: "We can sleep if Hunter commands the 
pickets." And who at another time said : "Hun- 
ter can't stay in camp, whether it's fighting, 
courting or dancing — it is all the same to him," 
and of whom it has been so often said in connec- 
tion with still another brave soldier: "You can 
always find Jim Hunter and Jim Harding on 
the firing line — where it's hot — they like it." 
Last we -k I received a letter from Captain 
James T. Hunter from Bronte saying: "I have 
been pestered for fear some of the brigade 
won't be at Navasota. I can't be at many more 
reunions and I want to meet tliem all once more. 
See or write all you can and beg them all to 



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be there, for I don't want to miss one of their 
faces." I have this day replied to him that with 
God's grace I hope we will all be able to meet 
him there, and you of the brigade must make 
my promise good. 

We also want Captain W. B. Wall. J. W. Dal- 
las, as well as our own (by adoption) X. B. 
Saund:'rs of Belton, to be at Navasota, as well 
as fll others not named who have expressed 
doubts. 

Now, comrades, a last word. Some of us I fear 
are getting too old to comprehend the magni- 
tude of the work yet left for us to do and the 
short time we have in which to properly accom- 
plish it, and we only look forward to our annual 
reunions as the brightest spot yet left in 
life's le.xicon, and each recurring occasion feel — 
maybe this is the last time I will ever see the 
boys again on this eirth. And so it is, if we 
have no other motive in going to Navasota than 
to gratify our great yearning to meet each other, 
it is a noble purro?e. and don't fail to go. To 
us it :s a heivenly privilege that we should not 
willingly forego for any reason. For every one of 
us the last roll call will soon have sounded, the 
last tattoo be beat. Jlany of us since those stir- 
rini: times that so knit us together, and made 
the whole world tremble, have joined the great 
majcirity, and it is only a few that yet abide 
with us unto this dav — unpensioned and uncom- 
plaining survivors of the most just and gigantic 
war of the ages ; types of the most unselfish 
soldiery that ever stood the sho k of battle; fear- 
less fighters then, incoirparable citizens now. 
Let's get together at Navasota. comrades, and 
once more, at least, revive the fragrant memo- 
ries of t'-e eventful past and recount the dan- 
gers and experiences we then underwent ; of the 
time when we were young and strong in heart 
and life; of that glorious, heroic period when, 
for love of the South, we dared everything, 
foiight the whole world and suffered much ; nor 
counted death too great a premium to pay for 
the glory of dying for Dixie Land. Let us feel 
once more the same animation to do our whole 
dutv now that we did when we stood shoulder 
to shoulder in summer's heat and winter'^ 
storm and freeze, only half clothed at any time 
and more than half starved manv times — but 
always c' eerful. hopeful and defiant to the end, 
willing to die at any tiipe on the soil of Vir- 
ginia following Lee. Jackson and others, while 
led by Hood. Comrades, no sublimer spectacle 
of fortitude, no grander example of loyalty to 
principle, nor nobler picture of unselfish pa- 
triotism and undying devotion to country was 
ever exhibited by human beings of this or any 
other earth. Only true and loyal soldiers of the 
living God ever equaled your devotion to the 



cause you held so dear — the cause that was never 
lost. The record you made then must live after 
you have gone, and it is for the furtherance of 
that purj ose that I plead with every member 
of you to be at Navasota. Your comrade, 

F. B. Chilton, 
Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's 
Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. 



STILL URGING EVERY COMRADE TO 
BE AT NAVASOTA REUNION. 

The annual reunion of Hood's Brigade is to 
take place next Thursday and Friday at Nava- 
sota, and the indications are that it will be one 
of the largest gatherings ever assembled in 
Grimes County. 

There is a great deal more importance to this 
meeting of the survivors of Hood's Brigade than 
ever before. There are plans for a historical 
sketch of the organization to which the Texana 
belonged and at the same time there will be on 
foot a movement to erect a suitable monument 
to the gallant leader and the men of the com- 
mand. The word has gone out over all the 
State to the survivors urging them to attend. 
A fine program has been arranged for the occa- 
sion and the people of Navasota are preparing to 
entertain the visitors as they have never been 
entertained before. It will be a time for remin- 
iscence; and pleasure for the soldiers, and with 
them will come people from all over Southern 
Texas to join with them in their annual meet- 
ing. 



TO WRITE HISTORY- 
MONUMENT. 



-BUILD 



At this reunion movements will be inaugu- 
rated looking toward the writing of a full, true 
and complete history of the brigade; also to 
eiect a suitable monument in commemoration of 
our gallant leader and the brave men who fol- 
lowed him to death and victory over so many 
sanguinary fields, and who, with their beloved 
leader, "now rest 'neath the shade of the trers." 

Comrades, we who live are few in number, 
and each passing year some of us answer the 
long roll. We bel'cve that among the survivors 
there are those who can write a better and truer 
history of the glorious deeds of the brigade than 
those who come after us. With us will pass 
into oblivion many of the sources of knowledge 
from which a true historv of the brieade can be 
obtained, and it is tlierefore important that we 
commence the good work at once, in order that 
we may be able to transmit to our posterity a 



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truthful history of that splendid brigade which 
shed luster upon the escutcheon of the South. 

We also think that some sort of shaft should 
be erected at the State capitol, which, though 
ever so modest, may inspire the coming genera- 
tions with patriotic impulses. The good people 
of Texas will help, but we must give the initia- 
tive. If we fail to do so now. more of us will 
answer the long roll without beholding the ac- 
complishment of either of these good works. 

PROGRAM FOR THE REUNION. 

Senator Joseph W. Bailey will speak the first 
day. Memorial by Senator Willacy. 

The following is the program for the Hood's 
Briga-> reunion, to be held at Navasota, June 
27 and 28 : 

THURSDAY, JUNE 27. 

9 a. m. — Assemble at city hall and escort to 
grounds by firemen, military band, citizens. 

10 a. m. — Music. 

11 a. m. — Address by Senator Joseph W. 
Bailey. 

1 D. m. — Dinner. 

3 p. m. — Assembly brigade, called to order by 
President E. K. Goree. 

Prayer by Chaplain. 

3:30 p. m. — -Address of welcome, Captain W. 
E. Barry. Music by quartette. 

4 p. m. — Response to address of welcome. 
Major F. Charles Hume. 

4 :30 p. m. — Business meeting. 

8 p. m. — Assen-.bly of Daughters of Confed- 
eracy and Brigade. 

Music. 

Address, "Women of the South and Dausrh- 
ters of the Confederacy," Hon. T. P. Buffing- 
ton. 

Music. 

Original poem — Mrs. W. D. Farris, Hunts- 
villa. 

Adjournment. 

FRIDAY, JUNE 28. 

8 a. m. — Music by band on square. 
S) a. m. — Assembly at grounds. 
Meeting called to order by President Goree. 
Pnyer by Chaplain. 

Instrumental solo — Miss Julia Branard, 
Houston. 
Song. 

10 a. m. — Business meeting. Election of of- 
ficers and selection of place of meeting for 1908. 

11 a. m. — Address, Judsre Norman G. Kit- 
trell, Judge Gist Judicial District, Houston, 
Texas. 



1 p. m. — Dinner. 

3 p. m. — Assembly. Memorial service. 

Prayer. 

Song. 

Reading resolutions, Memorial Committee — 
Capt. W. E. Barry. 

Memorial address. Senator John G. Willacy. 

Short talk from comrades regarding their 
dead comrades. 

Prayer. 

Song and parting. 



HOW HISTORY WAS STARTED. 

All of Hood's Texas Brigade are grateful that 
matter of a correct history weighed on the mind 
of Comrade Chilton until at the Navasota reun- 
ion, June 27 and 28, 1907, he started the his- 
tory under fitting resolution. Minutes read aa 
follows : 

A BRIGADE HISTORIAN. 

Comrade Chilton spoke of the importance 
of selecting a good and able historian, and 
told at length of the many mistakes and errors 
of pTesent brigade history, and that this meet- 
ing of the Association must prepare the remedy 
before it proved too late for the living to do 
justice to the noble dead of the brigade. 

Comrade Chilton then introduced a resolu- 
tion to this effect: 

Hon. E. K. Goree, President Hood's Brigade 
Association, in Reunion at Navasota, Texas, 
June 27, 1907. 

It is hereby resolved by this Association, 
That no longcrr delay can be had in the selec- 
tion of a brigade historian, whose duty it shall 
be to collect all data from every available source 
and give to the world a fair and impartial his- 
tory of Hood's Texas Brigade from first to last;" 
said historv to be historical and biographical, 
and to include the First, Fourth and Fifth 
Texas, the Eiglteenth Georgia and Third Ar-- 
kansas regiments, and Hampton's Legion, that 
compo-ed at different times the formation of 
Hood's Texas Brigade, each and every member- 
of the aforesaid commands being requested to 
furnish said historian a full history of his own 
acts and all else of importance that came under 
his observation during the war; the said histo- 
rian to abrido-e or otherwise use said matter as. 
he sees fit. It is further: 

ResolvI'D, That, as said historian can not ex- 
pect mucli finarcial aid from the Association in 
getting out said historv, the entire profits of the- 
work shall be his ; but in all cases it shall be 
the duty of every member of this Association to 
aid the historian by every means in his power. 



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The resolution was unanimously adopted, 
and Comrade Joseph B. Polley of Floresville 
was with one voice elected historian. 

After election of the historian it was, by argu- 
ment and discussion of the Association, agreed 
to select one member each from the First, 
Fourth and Fifth Texas, Eighteenth Georgia 
and Third Arkansas regiments and Hampton's 
Legion to assist the historian in making the his- 
tory a perfect production, in accordance with 
which the following assistants were named : 

First Texas— T. L. McCarty, Oklahoma City. 
Fourth Texas— J. C. West, Waco. 
Fifth Texas— J. M. Smither, Huntsville. 
Eighteenth Georgia — B. V. Arnold, Rock- 
dale. 
Third Arkansas — John L. Boatner, Elliott. 
Hampton's Legion — (No one named). 

A small collection was taken up to defray the 
initiatory expenses of the historian and thus the 
great work began. 



FIRST SUCCESSFUL MOVE TO BUILD A 

MONUMENT, AND HOW IT BEGAN 

AT NAVASOTA REUNION. 

After having successfully launched the rolls 
at Somerville and continued with history at 
Navasota, Comrade Chilton pressed ria:ht nn for 
the speedy erection of a monument and at Nava- 
sota offered a resolution to that effect : 

Navasota minutes read as follows : 

THE MONUMENT RESOLUTION. 

Eegular business being res-jmed, Comrade 
Chilton offered the following resolution on 
building a monument to Hood's Brigade, and 
spoke at length as to what should be speedily 
done in furtherance of the resolution : 

"Hon. E. K. Goree, President Hood's Brigade 
Association, in Keunion at Navasota, June 27, 
1907. 

"While every State in the South is honoring 
its noble dend, who died in defense of a cause 
they knew to be right, by erecting suitable mon- 
uments to their memory, it becomes the duty 
of the survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade to no 
longer delay taking proper steps to erect a mon- 
ument to General John B. Hood and his Texas 
Brigade on the capitol grounds at Austin ; there- 
fore, be it 

Eesolved, That this Association proceed to 
elect a F*resident, who shall preside over a 
Hood's Texas Brigade monument committee 
until a ^uitab'e and creditable monument adorns 
the capitol grounds at Austin ; that this Associa- 



tion shall name a committee of one each from 
the First, Fourth and Fifth Texas, Eighteanth 
Georgia and Ihird Arkansas regiments, who 
will act as a committee of assistance to said 
President when necessary; be it further 

Eesolved, That said President of Hood's 
Brigade Monument Committee is empowered to 
name suitable committees of ladies and other 
aids to raise money to erect said monument. It 
is also 

"Eesolved, That said committees shall elect 
a treasurer from their own number; tl at the 
President will receive all moneys and pay them 
over t-> the treasurer, taking his rece'pt for 
same, and that said treasurer shall pay out no 
money except on draft of the President." 

The above resolutions were unanimously 
passed, and President Goree nominated Com- 
ride F. B. Chilton as President of the Hood's 
Texas Brigade Monument Committee. Same 
was seconded and Comrade Chilton's election 
was unanimous. 

The Association then proceeded to name the 
committee to assist in building the monument. 

After due consideration by the Association 
and action by those named, the Monument Com- 
mittee was annotmced as follows: 

F. B. Chilton, Houston, President. 
W. H. Gaston, Dallas, Treasurer. 
W. E. Barrv. Navasota. 
B. V. Arnold, Eockdale. 
E. A. Brantley, Sorrervillo. 
John L. Boatner, Elliott. 

FOUNDATION OF MONUMENT LAID 
BY A SPEEDY COLLECTION. 

Imn-ediately after above resolution was 
passed Comrade Chilton besran erecting the 
monument in earnest, as is evidenced by his rais- 
ing $448.75 in cash and subscription on the spot. 

Navasota minutes further read : 

Comrade Chilton, finding time to thank the 
Association for the confidence placed in him 
through his election to the presidency of Hood's 
Texas Brigade monument fund, assured it that 
it meant long continued hard work, but with 
their help hj intended to succeed. He spoke 
feelingly of the undertaking and hopefully of 
success, and outlined how his main help would 
come from the blrssed women of Texas and 
committees which he would later anpoint from 
the United Daughter's of the Confederacy. With 
an eye sinele to business. Captain Chilton said 
he was going to be?in work that very moment, 
which he did with the following result: 



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He took from his pocket a letter from Mrs. 
J. B. Beatty. President of 11. E. Lee Chapter, 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, at Hous- 
ton, wherein Mrs. Beatty spoke in glowing terms 
of the chivalry of Hood's Texas Brigade on 
many battlefields; of their 85 per cent, loss, as 
recorded by tlie War Department, and how glo- 
rious it was to he jicrmittcd to contribute toward 
erecting a monument to such heroes; and slie 
incl sed therein $5 as second contribution to the 
monument fund, yielding first contribution to 
the Hood's Texas Brigade Juniors, who were 
represented at the Association by their youth- 
ful President, JIaster J. B. Jaqua. The read- 
ing of Mrs. Beatty's letter brousrht forth mucti 
applause. Comrade Chilton led Master J. B. 
Jaqua forward, and as president of the Hood's 
Texas Brigade Juniors he made a splendid im- 
promptu address and wound up by handing 
Comrade Chilton the first dollar contributed to 
the monument fund, which was received with 
appropriate remarks. 

It is a notable circumstance and augurs suc- 
cess, that the first three contributions came : 
First, from Hood's Texas Brigade Juniors; 
second, from the President of E. E. Lee Chap- 
ter, ITn-'ted Daughters of the Confederacy, who 
organi^dd the auxiliiry juniors; and third, from 
John B. Hood Chapter, Ignited Daughters of the 
Confederacy, through their President, Jlrs. B. 
T. Wellborn of Somerville. 

Hood's Texas Brigade Juniors, Houston $1 00 

John B. Hood Chapter, U. D. C, Somer- 
ville 5 00 

Mrs. J. B. Beattv. Houston 5 00 

Randall Miller, Hearne 1 00 

Irvin Brantley, Somervlle 50 

Nat and Jones Wofford, Cimeron 1 00 

Judge F. Charles Hume, Houston 5 00 

John M. King. Cuero 5 00 

A. B. Hood, Wilcox 5 00 

B. P. Bullock, Rogers 5 00 

Dr. W. P. Powe'l, Willis 5 00 

J. H. Plasters. Temple _ 5 00 

Ben Hillvard. Bo<jers 23 

J. E. Landes, Chapp-11 Hill _ 5 00 

Jim Connolly, Deanville 5 00 

W. E. Barry. Xavasota 5 00 

A. Miles, Atlanta 5 00 

H. T. Sapp. Houston 5 00 

Calboim Fearse. Huntsville 5 00 

J. W. Dallas. Brenham 5 00 

Jessie B. T ott, Xavasota 5 00 

J. M. Walling. Corsicana 5 00 

W. J. Watts, Pale.stine 5 00 

D. Flaniken, Temple 5 00 

J. B. Gordon Chapter, U. D. C, Hunts- 
ville _ 5 00 

Captain J. T. Hunter, Bronte 5 00 



Captain J. T. Hill, Maynard 5 00 

J. C. Cox, Tyler 5 00 

B. V. Arnold, Rockdale 5 00 

J. T. Reeves, Caldwell 5 00 

H. P. Trayweek, Burnet - 5 00 

Dr. J. C. Loggins, Ennis _ 10 00 

R. A. Brantley, Somerville 10 00 

R. K. Felder, Independence 10 00 

E. K. Goree, Huntsville 25 00 

General J. B. Polley, Floresville 25 00 

John H. Drennan. Calvert..- 25 00 

J. W. Sneed, Rosebud 25 00 

F. B. Chilton, Houston 25 00 

Captain T. C. BufFington, Anderson 50 00 

Captain W. H. Gaston, Dallas 100 00 

M. V. Smith, Luling 10 00 



Total $448 75 

Workinsr hard during 1907 arid with poor 
success raising funds. Comrade Chilton ex- 
jjhined the situation to the reunion at Jackson- 
ville, Texas, June 25th, 1908, and tendered his 
resignation as President of Monument Commit- 
tee. Association refused to accept his resigna- 
tion, except fnr action. They then rescinded 
resolutions passed at Xavasota and framed res- 
olution empowering the President to select hia 
own committee and proceed his own way to 
build the monument and re-elected Comrade F. 
B. Chilton President of whatever committee he 
saw proper to create. 

Jacksonville, Texas, June 25, 1908. 

Minutes read as follows : 

Resolved. That this Assor^intion elect a com- 
rade as President of Hood's Texas Bri?;ade 
monument fund and committee, who shall bu 
charged with the erection of a suitable monu- 
ment on the capitol grounds at Austin to the 
memory of Hood's Texas Brigade; that said 
President, when so elected, has full authority 
of this Association to name his own committee 
and other assistants, and to act in all premises 
as his best judgment dictates, and complete hia 
work as soon as it is possible to do so ; this res- 
olution tn take the place of the former monu- 
ment resolution of June 27, 1907. 

Resolved, That Hood's Texas Brigade As- 
sociation, in reunion at Jacksonville, Texas, 
June 25, 1908. having full confidence in the in- 
t'^gritv and ibiPtv of Comrade F. B. Chilton of 
Company H. Fourth Texas Resriment. Hood's 
Texas Brigade, Army of Xorthern Virarinia, 
wit'i one voice hereby elect him President of 
Hood's Texas Brieade Monument Committee 
and fund. empowerin<T him under resolution 
previously passed, with full authority to name 



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his own committee, and to proceed his own way 
to erect said monument as soon as possible, and 
we pledge him all the support in our power to 
bestow. 

Monument Committee report was adopted. 
President Chilton then stated his committee as 
follows : 

Captain F. B. Chilton, Company H, Fourth 
Texas Regiment, Angleton, President. 

General W. R. Hamby, Company B, Fourth 
Texas Regiment, Austin, Treasurer. 



Captain W. T. Hill, Company D, Fifth Texas 
Regiment, Maynard. 

Captain W. H. Gaston, Company H, First 
Texas Regiment, Dallas. 

Governor T. '^\. Campbell, Governor of Texas, 
Austin. 

Major George W. Littlefield, Terry's Texas 
Rangers, Austin. 

Hon. John H. Kirby, President Kirby Lum- 
ber Company, Houston. 

Hon. J. G. Willacy, State Senator, Corpus 
Christi. 



GRANDLY ELOQUENT SPEECH DELIVERED BY JUDGE 
N. G. KITTRELL AT NAVASOTA REUNION. 



Navasota, Texas, June 28. — Interest on the 
second and last day of Hood's Texas Brigade's 
annual reunion centered in the oration delivered 
by Judge Norman G. Kittrell of Houston, who 
spoke at the special invitation of the brigade. 
Judge Kittrell, a forcil)le and entertaining 
speaker on all occasions, was at his best in ad- 
dressing the veterans today. No more eloquent 
word'; have been spoken in behalf of the cause 
of the South that those which fell from his 
lips. He said : 

Veterans of Hood's Brigade: 

Twenty-one years have passed since you gath- 
ered in reunion where you are today welcomed 
and honored guests. 

Great have been the changes in those passing 
years. The cvcle of the grim reaper has fallen 
relentlessly along your lines, and many a com- 
rade has gone to answer the final call. 

Governments have been established and over- 
thrown. Political parties have triumphed and 
^leen defeated. The maps of nations have been 
changed. The theories of financial convulsions 
have shaken a continent, but amid all these mu- 
tations there is that which has proved defiant 
of time and change, which has ever been and 
is the s?me whether in prosperity or adversity, 
in brightness or in srlooni, that is tlie genuine, 
generous and unfailing hospitality of Grimes 
County. 

It is not n hospitality which finds expression 
in loud professions or pretentious parade. 

The refinement, culture and good breeding 
which have here a home and an abiding place 
forbid all ostentatious display. 

The triditions of the olden time, when that 
bospitalitv which was ever ready to welcome 
the coming ind speed the parting sruest was 
esteemed a virtue, linger yet among this people. 

You can read your welcome in the eyes which 



brighten at your coming ; in the hearty clasp of 
the hands that for months have gladly labored 
to prepare lor your leception ; in the sincere and 
cordial greeting of brave men and fair women; 
in the rippling laughtr and Joyous step of youth 
and maidens, and 'n the clapping hanjxnd hur- 
rying feet of children who have learned irom 
their mothers' lips the story of your deathless 
deeds. 

I most cordially congratulate you on being 
gathered herj today for there is no contribution 
to your pleasure that your hosts can make but 
that will be gladly made. 

If you catch on the air a grateful odor which 
stimulates your appetites and recalls the con- 
trast of those days of the long ago, when, weak- 
ened by hunger, you tranrped and fought, it be- 
tokens near nt hand a spread for you, compared 
with which the banquet of the gods was a Bar- 
mecide feast. 

If your hearts be stirred by notes of merry 
music and the flashing of bright eyes till your 
blood courses with the force and flow of youth, 
and you fain would join the votaries of Terpsi- 
chore, you reel not want for merry maids. You 
will find here scores of bewitching maiden.? 
whom, when you see them, you'll swear had 
either in the throng leen an Olympus "then the 
gods lad not changed their cupbearer" and they 
will dance you from Ihe falling of the evening 
sliades "till the wee sma' hours awant the twa." 

If any of you sray and grizzled veteran'' have 
not provided yourselves with connubial mates, 
or, lavin? done so. have discreetly left them be- 
hind, and now under the seductive influences of 
thes^ surroundings deny their existence and 
stand ready to pay your devoirs at the shrine of 
leautv, here is your field. 

Be bravo anrl fear not. There is less danger 
in bright eves than in buzzing bullets, and these 
lasi you oft have faced. I assure you of patient 



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hearing, even if your suit should fail. On this 
point in these ]iarts I am prepared to speak from 
varied and protracted experience. 

To the suggestions of hospitality, which is 
to this people as natural as it is cordial and un- 
stinted, are added yet more potent influences, 
prompting them to do you honor, for they are 
linked to this "Old Brigade" by as tender and 
sacred ties as ever bound human hearts in holy 
communion. 

No knightlier or more chivalric defenders of 
home an I native land ever dared death for 
duty's sake than those who a third of a century 
ago marched forth from this old county to join 
your ranks; and no nobler spirits '^-or sank t" 
rest in a country's cause than the heroic sons of 
Grimes County, who, on Virginia's sacred soil, 
died that (onstitutianal liberty might live. 

Here today from homes and hearts on every 
side of the lines of memory stretch out to many 
an historic battlefield and many a lonely grave. 

This is not the time nor place for argu- 
ment or for the discussion of the historical and 
constitutional quarters which for their final so- 
lution were adjourned from council hall to bat- 
tlefield. 

With faith inviolate you abide the arbitra- 
ment of the fword. Apology you have not made 
— you will not make. Defense of your action is 
unnecessarv. With consciences void of offens" 
toward God or man, you fear not the record of 
impartial history; you court the judgment of 
posterity. 

If anv man beyond the sound of my voice — 
for there is no such man here — doubts the right 
and justice of the cause in behalf of which yon 
wrought deeds of such surpassing valor, I bid 
him carefully peruse the report of the commit- 
tee on bistorv of the A'^sociation of United Con- 
federate Veterans made a few davs ago at tlie 
annua] reunion in Eichmond by the chairman 
of that committf'e. that bullet scarred veteran, 
kniehtlv gentleman and accomplished lav.yer. 
Judffe Genrse L. Christian. The report is as 
unanswerable as a demonstration in mathe- 
matics. It puts beyond the range of debate or 
controversy these propositions : 

First. That there was never given by the 
Constitution, or by those who framed it, was 
never surposed to have been given to the gen- 
eral government the power to coerce a sovereign 
State. 

Second. That (he North was responsible for 
the ca-ses which broujrht about the war. being 
responsible for the existence of slavery and the 
slav trade. 

Third. That the North was the aggressor in 
the conflict 



Fourth. That the South struck in lawful 
self-defense. 

Fifth. That the soldiers and leaders of 
Southern armies conducted themselves during 
the conflict n;ore in accordance with the rules 
of civilized warfare. 

The report has been set forth before all the 
world, and if any man desires to assail or con- 
trovert any statement therein contained, let him 
make the attempt. 

Non-^ will do it, because it is bed-rocked on 
eternal right, and the Constitution, and the 
truth of history make it uncontrovertible and 
unanswerable. 

With thes'^ br'ef references to history, I will 
content myself, for this is an hour not for de- 
bate or discussion, but one consecrated to ten- 
der sentiment and holy memories. 

By pure and noble impulses you have been 
drawn together today in annual reunion, to live 
over again for a brief season the scenes and 
events of the past, to meet again the comrades 
who with you dared death, but yet remain with 
the living to proclaim their unalterable faith in 
the justice of the cause for which they battled, 
and to ass'^rt before all mankind, by their as- 
sembling, that neither to them nor their cause 
did defeat brinsr dishonor. 

The spirit of patriotism, springing from the 
noblest impulses of the human heart, is diffused 
abroad among a great people, and acting with 
irresistible force upon minds and hearts has 
grown and strensjthened through all the chang- 
ing years, and in its primal power holds sway 
over every patriotic heart in this presence today. 
By its force has been fathered here this vast 
thron<i of brave and stalwart men, tender, gen- 
tle women, lispinir childhood and hoary age, to 
do reverence to those whose names and fame 
are immortally associated with all that is no- 
blest and best in the annals of that young na- 
tion, the bri'^htest passes of whose history are 
these on which is written the records of their 
deeds. 

One of the senators who represents Texas in 
the mo-t august rarliament on earth, has before 
yo'i Ket forth wi'b t'^anscondent power, a defense 
of the cause in behalf of which you fourrht, and 
I, your humble frieid and whilom public serv- 
ant, have come to hrin? mv greeting and tender 
to you mv reverent salutation. 

As I look upon t'lis ereat concours", the scene 
spread out be^'ore rre is one over which the living 
mav w-ell r-^joice; a^d if, ps I steadfastly believe, 
the dead be remitted to take cotrnizance of the 
things of earth, T feel that there bends over us 
the ho«t of our deadless dead, looking with joy- 
upon the scene where we have with grateful and 
patriotic impulses gathered, upon the soil of the 



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beloved land for which they offered their lives, 
a sacrifice, and which has bsen hallowed by their 
devotion and consecrated ly their blood. 

Methinks that around us today hover these 
invis bl? visitmts, and that you, as you form 
again your old broken ranks and march to the 
sound of familiar music, with noiseless tread — 
but keeping step with you — moves a phantom 
phalanx. 

I seem to ?e9, leading that line of ghostly war- 
riors that grand Christian soldier, the greatest 
military genius developed by Civil War. that 
unique' perso'iality, who "was born 'neath the 
aspect of a bright-eyed star and whose triumph- 
ant adamant of soul wa? I)ut the fixed persuasion 
of success" — Stonewall Jackson. 

Side by side with him is that maiestic soldier 
who fell too soon for his country's weil, but 
who fell in the hour of triumpli, and whose dy- 
ing ear caught the shout of rejoicing for a vic- 
tory won by his own consummate leadership. 
anr^ whose soul went home to God on the wings 
of the shoutincr of his victorious legions — Albert 
Sidney Johnston. 

There too is that darin? and dauntless cava- 
lier who mocked at dangc and whom his great 
commander trusted in every "imminent and 
deadly breach," and whose name the dvin? lips 
of Lee and Jackson sealed for immortalitv — 
A. P. Hill. 

An! in fit and worthy companionship with 
these heroic spirits march Hond. and Jlarshall, 
and Greeg, and Upton, and Robertson, the gal- 
lant leaders under wliom you gray and grizzled 
veterans won the fadeless laurels with which 
fame has crarlanded your brows. 

Never had army such leaders, and never had 
leaders such an army ! Heroes all ! Fame hath 
them on her deathless roll and history will per- 
petuate the'r memories unto remotest time. 

The measure of fame, which justly belongs to 
the martial deeds of a rr-iple, is not to be deter- 
mined by the mere physical courage of its sol- 
diery. 

Savages knowing nothing of God, and with 
no thought of the future, save as affording a 
field for increased physical enjoyment, and im- 
moved by a sing'e roble impulse, recklessly ri^ic 
death inspired by the base motives of plunder 
or revenge. 

The peasantry of despotic power, whether or- 
de-ed to battle for conquest or defense, like 
"dumb driven rattli" yield mechanical and per- 
functorv obedi^'n'^e, and sul'enly march to a 
death which is robbed of half its terrors by the 
thought that it will prove to be for them the 
gateway of deliverance from poverty and oppres- 
sion. 

The soldiers of the South were inspired by 



lofty motives and must be judged by lofty stand- 
ards. 

They will be judged by the degree of their ed- 
ucation and intelligence, the extent of freedom 
to which they had been accustomed, the motives 
that prompted them, and the character and de- 
gree of tie civilization of which they were at 
once the product and exponents. 

Just in proportion as was their intelligence, 
the ble-sings and comforts which surrounded 
them, their capacity for social and political en- 
joyment and pron:otion, their opportunity for 
increase of material wealth, and the extent of 
their privileges as freemen, so was the measure 
of the sacrifice they made for duty's sake; and 
as was the measure of their sacrifice, so is the 
m.easure of the glory and the fame to which they 
are entitled. 

There were in the army of the South no hire- 
lings and no Hessians. The South was too poor 
to hire defenders and too rich in patriotic sons 
to make such hiring necessary. In the ranks of 
that armv were to b2 se^n the types and expo- 
nents of the loftiest civilization the world ever 
saw in any land. 

Justly proud of her sons and their achieve- 
nents, she stands prepared to match them deed 
for deed and man for man with all who've names 
are on history's record or on the roll of fame. 

How great hath been her contribution to the 
roll of presidents, statesmen, jurists and orators, 
history abundant'y attests, and she shrinks not 
from a contest of comparison in the arena of 
martial fame. 

If the daring deed of the sons of Sunny 
France at Lodi's Bridge be cited, we match their 
va'or with Hood's Brigade at Gaines' Mill and 
the Wilderness. 

If McDonald and hi; immortal band at Wag- 
ram be named as an exhibition of lofty heroism, 
the South matches it with Pickett and his 
dauntless division at Gettysburg. 

If any man asks for an illustration of great 
military skill and renins, we point him to Lee's 
campaign in th" Wilderness in 18(54 and tell him 
upon the authority of the highest military crit- 
ics of this generation that it has never been sur- 
passed in ancient or mo:^ern times. 

Let any nation name any son of hers, living 
or dead, who in grandeur of character, glory of 
achievement or in the elements of greatness 
stands pre-eminent in her history, and the South 
will more than match him with that son of hers, 
that proud scion of a knightly race, that most 
beauteous flower of her chivalry, that humble 
childlike Christian, that great soldier, 
"Who led his armv like a priest of men 
And fought his battles with anointed spears" — 
Robert Edward Lee. 



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His deeds and the deeds of those who fol- 
lowed him with unquestioning confidence and 
unsliaken devotion will live in song and story 
when you and I are in the dust, and upon the 
glorious record of those deeds men will feed in 
their hearts and minds until they grow rich in 
noble impulse, and brave and strong in high 
and patriotic endeavor. 

These men and numberless thousands spring- 
ing from the same stock were the products of 
the social, political and industrial system of the 
South, and to use the language of one of the 
sweetest of Southern poets, I ask: 

"Who shall blame the social order 
That gave us men like these?" 

And I ask furthermore, my countrymen, 
when and where will you match them in all the 
elements and characteristics of true greatness 
and exalted cliaracter? 

I have spoken of leaders and great command- 
ers, and 1 avc endeavored to pay them some 
measure of the tribute that is justly due them, 
but something is due also to the far greater 
number, of whom it may be said, if comparison 
and distinction mav be permitted in this con- 
nection, that upon them lested the greater and 
real glory of the conflict, the "privates in the 
ranks." 

They served their country for very love of 
her and not for glory or for gain. They of- 
fered their lives for her, though they knew un- 
marked and perhaps unknown graves awaited 
them if they fell, and "bv the simple manhood 
of their lives and the patient endurance of suf- 
fering they fflorified a fallen cause." But the 
humblest private neither fought nor fell unno- 
ticed. There rested upon him the all-seeing eye 
of Him 

"Wlio reads 

Through the guises of the heart 
And 1 ok- not at the splendor of the deeds, 

But the way we do our part. 
And when He shall take them by the hand 

And their small service own. 
There'll be a glorious band of privates stand, 

As victors, 'round the throne." 

And now the pleasing task assigned mo by 
your officers is nearly finished, vet it would be 
unworthy and incomjlete did I not pay some 
tribute to those who, if possible, even more 
than ourselves, ennobled and glorified a holy 
cause. 

Doubt'ess there are in this presence today 
some in whom the sad times of preparation and 
parting -11 years ago sent their sons to battle 
and consecrnted them by a mother's praj'er to 
their country's service. 



There are here, too, some whose locks are 
now silvered by the touch of time who were then 
in the flush and beauty of youth and buoyant 
womanhood. They, too, made their sacrifice, 
•'and unlocking their arms from a fathers or 
a brother's neck, bid him for honor's sake go 
where duty called. 

In the dark hour, war from many a Southern 
maiden claimed that "nearer and dearer one" 
with whose life was entwined all her love and 
fondest hope, and as was permitted in such an 
hour, "the maiden softening from her coy re- 
serve, gave her true knight some token kind to 
take as Hope's talsman to battle," and laid her 
sacrifice and holy offering on her country's 
altar. 

The heaven born spirit that nerved gentle 
women to the sacrifices such as these has sur- 
vived wreck and time and change and murmur- 
ing not at fate, they live over again the sad 
scenes today and memorv touching with her 
wan 1 the treasury of tears from womanly eyes 
the tribute of a never dying love. 

For the woman of the South no suffering was 
too de_'p, no sacrifice too great, no hardship too 
severe, if they could but aid that cause which 
was to them so dear. 

They toiled in the day time and in the night 
with weary hands and aching hearts to feed the 
hungry and clothe the naked and relieve the suf- 
fering. 

Tl'.ev comforted the sorrowful, nursed the sick 
and wounded, and when death came to end for 
the soldier the "weary hopelessness of the hos- 
pital,"' his dying pillow was smoothed bv a 
woman's gentle hand, and his soul was wafted 
home to God on the wings of a woman's prayer. 

Jfeipories of pa'^t trials and strugcles dwell 
yet with this ] eople. The anniversarv of every 
battle is the reminder of some loved and lost 
one, and is a — 

"Date written in fire on history's scroll. 
Date drawn in deep blood lines on many a 
soul." 

The South trod alone and without murmur- 
ing the wine press of sorrow. She walked with 
hemic fortitude through the valley of war and 
sufi'ering and humiliation. 

Yet never in the history of the world, after 
the close of devastating war, has any people 
wrought such great work in the field of physical 
reconstruction and material development. 

That has been accomplished because that peo- 
ple have apprehended and acted upon the great 
principle in tbe philosophy of physical and ma- 
leiial progress, that not only is rapid and endur- 
ing material development and prosperity con- 
sistent with devotion to the memories of an his- 



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toric past, and witli the perpetuation of tlie rec- 
ords of great achievements, but that there can 
be no real and histing glory for a nation or a 
people or a city which does not build on some 
surer foundation than one purely commercial 
and financial. 

It has been by reason of their fidelity to con- 
viction and their changeless love for the land of 
their birth that thev have been able to success- 
fully solve the great social, industrial and com- 
mercial problems which have confronted them 
and to bring about that regeneration of their 
material interests which is the marvel of the 
century. 

When the South lay prostrate and wounded, 
there was among all the nations of the earth no 
good Samaritan to bind her wounds or soothe 
her sorrows. All parsed by on the other side. 
She was left to tread tlie wine press of sorrow 
alone. The mantle of mourning enshrouded 
her. The voice of her Rachels wailing for their 
first born sirote upon the air. Her fields lay 
desolate, her industries were destroyed, and in 
the ashes of her desolation she bowed by the 
graves of I er buried hopes, but in that dark 
hour she did not despair, and though she passed 
into the very shadow of ]:olitical and commer- 
cial death, thanks be to God, she has proved the 
angel of her own resurrection. 

Scorned and derided in her day of defeat, the 
world pays her homage in her day of peaceful 
triumph. 

The kings of commerce, the monarchs of 
manufacture, the magnates in the marts of do- 
mestic trade, and in lands beyond the seas, bend 
eagerlv to catch the tidings from the fields of 
her chief staple, and King Iron has placed his 
crown upon the brow and his spectre in the hand 
of grand old Alabama. 

The stone which the builders rejected has be- 
come indeed the headstone of the corner. When 
the cry goes forth : 



"Watchman, tell us of the night, 
Wliat its signs of promise are, 

The answer cometh back : 

"Look ye, men of every land, 
Upon the glorious Southern star." 

That star has emerged from tlie clouds which 
so long obscured it and shines now as a beacon 
light to guide the eager millions who have seen 
it, and who, in the song of the husbandman, the 
hum of the spindle, the whirr of the loom, and 
the roar of the furnace have caught the notes 
of the South's triumphant march, and are has- 
tening to lay their offerings at the feet of the 
recrowned and re-enthroned queen. 

In adversity strong and brave, in prosperity, 
rejoicing and grateful, neither fortune's favors 
nor her frowns have been able to shake her peo- 
] h from the sure anchor of their firm and fixed 
political faith, but they have in sunshine and in 
storm treasured that faith as through 40 years 
of weary wandering Israel of old guarded the 
Holy of Holies where rested the ark and She- 
kinah of God. 

Glorying in her past, rejoicing in the present 
and looking with an al)iding confidence to the 
splendid futur? which is unfolding before her 
enraptured vi-ion, the South standing upon that 
record which is written in the blood of her chil- 
dren, doth 

"All power defv 
To quench her love of liberty. 
Or shake her trust in God." 

That record is complete and closed and 
elapsed. It is richly red with patriotic blood, 
luminous with the light of living and eternal 
truth and divinely radiant with lines of fadeless 
glory. 

Upon that record she fearlessly confronts the 
future, and confidently awaits the verdict of 
impartial history. 



MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY SENATOR JNO. G. WILLACY, 
AT NAVASOTA REUNION. 



The following fine address was delivered by 
Senator John G. Willacy at jSTavasota reunion 
in honor of the dead of Hood's Texas Brigade : 

After reading of mortuary report by Comrade 
Barry, Senator JIcDonald ileachum of Xava- 
sota stepped forward to introduce Senator J. G. 
Willacy of Corpus Christi, who would deliver 
the memorial address. Senator Meachum's in- 
troduction was thoughtful and suggestive of 
the solemn occasion. 



Senator Willacy's circumscribed bounds 
seemed no barrier to his eloquence, and he ably 
and feelingly spoke of Hood's Brigade in all 
their stormv wav from adhesion of principle to 
death, and in many flights of heaven-pointed 
oratory proved that there is a sure reward for 
devotion and courage. Particularly was Hood'= 
Texas Brigade plea-ed with the Senator's bright 
picture of their proposed monument and his 
pledged assistance and guaranty as to its build- 



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ing. The Senator left friends among the vet- 
erans, as well as their sons and daughters, who 
constitute the United Daughters of the Confed- 
eracy and the United Sons of Veterans, who 
will remind him later of his interest and prom- 
ises. 

SENATOR Willacy's address. 

Fir.^t, let me thank you for this honor, con- 
ferred upon an humhle citizen of Texas, proud 
to be with you. and in spirit one of you, though 
unscarred by liattle, \et sharing in your glory— 
for the Texas heart, whether by birth or adop- 
tion, is none the less Texan, iiroud of his State 
and people and Jealous of its traditions. Ee- 
ceiving its glorious birthright from the sword, 
inheriting the valor of Kentucky, Virginia, Ten- 
nessee nnd other kindred people at the Alamo 
and at San Jacinto, Texas character was molded 
in patriotism and given as a precious heritage 
to it? sons and daughters who, while not \m- 
mindful of its infinite value, realize and accept 
its responsibilities. Of the South they lived in 
the atmosphere of the South, sharing its des- 
tiny, its hopes and its burdens, and when appeal 
to "aru's was made in defense of honor they 
Bhared its trials and its glory, and true to their 
birthright placed one more jewel ih its imperial 
crown and enhanced the splendor of their herit- 
age. 

But how inadequate are mere words to express 
the gratitude I feel for the privilege of address- 
ing such an assembly as this and upon such _ai\ 
occasion, and how unresponsive are the lips 
when fitting tribute calls for heart language -o 
eager for expression and yet not coined in the 
languas-e of men. To such as I, who have fol- 
lowed the tragedies of war only in its written 
history there is a sublime pathos in the pres- 
ence of those who have suffered its burdens 
upon the field of battle and offered their heart's 
blood upon the altar of patriotism. No gath- 
ering of people ever reprcFented hisher ideals 
than the assembly now before me Just as in 'CI 
to '05 no purer patriotism ever responded to n 
country's call, and when I look into the faces of 
those before me. both men and women, and read 
the I'carts of tho-e wlio have foueht and suffered 
for a great princiide and met. in its fullest, the 
obligations of citizenslup, bravely bared thdr 
breasts to the sword of the invader of their 
homes, it opens to me a new chapter in that 
glorious history of the Southland and a new 
meaning to valor. 

DIED IN GLORY. 

To shed one's life blood in defense of home 
and country is man's first privilege — to offer U 
is equally patriotic, and both are engraven in 
ineffaceable characters of glory upon a nation's 



heart. To the dead, wrapped in the gory gar- 
ment of the slain, we bring the myrtle aiud the 
ivy and the rose, mute yet eloquent tributes of 
our grief, and teach them to grow above his last 
resting place, at once a lesson to posterity and 
proof of unforgetfulness, and we write upon his 
tomb the epitaph, "Died in glory that the honor 
of a noble people may live forever !" 

"To the living we have a grateful acknowl- 
edgment of his heroism and weave about his 
brow and heart the evergreen of a never-dying 
love and an unending obligation — not forgetting 
that while one must die that a noble cause may 
be refined in the crimson crucible of his heart's 
blood, yet another must live to bear witness to 
war's tragedies and its truths. No historian's 
pen can write the history of Manassas or Get- 
tysburg, the Wilderness, Antietam and Chicka- 
mauga as it is imprinted upon the hearts and 
minds of those who shared its carnage. No 
writer of history or fiction can portray the con- 
tending emotions at Appomattox; no artist's 
brush can picture the red tongue of death as 
at Eltham's Landing, at Little Kound Top, at 
Gaines' Mill and at Chancellorsville it sought to 
quench its thirst for blood, as it is engraven 
upon the memories of these surviving heroes. 
No science of art can record the heart anguish 
of the living as, far from home and kindred, 
brother or friend is placed beneath the sod, a 
gory tribute to a nation's glory, and what writer 
would dare to picture the emotions of those ten- 
der hearts at home of wife or mother or sister, 
or perhaps a heart in which the petal of the love 
rose had found a sweet and ofttimes secret 
lodgment; dear ones who had proudly and 
cheerfully offered brave sons upon the altar of 
patriotism, yet praving God they might be 
spared to them ! Who will ever dare to repro- 
duce the heart sobs and welling tears over the re- 
mains of heroes slain and the soft whisperings 
of the living, broken heart to its precious life- 
less clay ? I say none. The genius of talent in 
pen or brush must yield to the lips of the sur- 
viving men and women, and when they are 
called by the great Commander of hosts, the 
only true image will be hung upon the walls of 
heaven. 

THE MARTYRED DAVIS. 

"Yes, some must die to refine war's glory as 
some must live to speak its tragedies and its 
truths. What artist has adequately written the 
divinely noble character of the martyred Davis, 
and what brush has painted his heart, swelling 
with pride with each victory of his intrepid sol- 
diery, and who would presume to paint the 
crushing weight upon that noble heart when the 
cause of the Southland went down in defeat be- 
fore a vastly superior force, and how he bore, 



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95 



without complaint, the sufferings of his people. 
Carve, if you can, the grandeur of that charac- 
ter, as looming through all the years of tribula- 
tion it reflected imperishable glory upon the 
cause whose martyr he became, or the mem- 
ory of him — so unspeakably precious to the peo- 
ple of the South. Let talent call to aid the mas- 
ter 1 and of art and then— ^ven then — there will 
be but one work of art sufficient unto him and 
that was engraven by the instrument of his own 
noble, self-sacrificing character upon the hearts 
of his own countrymen. Open the bosom of the 
Southland and witness there an almost divine 
engraving of him who dedicated his life to his 
people, smiling only as they smiled, but suffer- 
ing always when they suffered. 

"And Lee and Jackson ! War eagles of the 
Confederacy, masterpieces of the omnipotent 
war god. Who could paint them as they were? 
Incomparable Lee ! Invincible Jackson ! Oh, 
fickle god of fortune ! Hadst thou but have 
stayed the hand of chance and given full sway 
to genius — what glorious history might have 
been the heritage of posterity ! 

"Robert E. Lee ! What magical inspiration 
in the name of that noble hero who, by his 
genius and valor, inspired by his patriotism, 
wrote his name upon the most glorious pages of 
the world's history and wrought in the heart's 
of his countrymen a halo around that noble 
brow, snow-crested by the legacy of time and his 
people's sufferings. 

EAGLES NORTH, EAGLES SOUTH. 

"At Appomattox ! When heroes had yielded 
step by step to the inevitable and the Ameri- 
can eagle once more spread its wings o'er all 
American soil, in victory for the North, but with 
equal glory for the South, how quickly the 
great American character asserted itself — eagles 
South and eagles North, in the terms of sur- 
render and parole. Can any one picture on can- 
vas or in marble the pride in the heart of the 
Federal commander at the final surrender to 
him of the greatest general in history? Can 
any one paint the magnanimity of the victorious 
general when he refused to stipulate for the 
sword of Lee — a trophy so priceless in its mean- 
ing that for an equal proof of valor emperors 
and kings of historv would have ransomed 
kingdoms and empires to possess? Wellington, 
Napoleon nor Alexander ever dreamed of such 
priceless trophy of war, and yet the American 
spirit, that sense of oneness, one people, one 
country, one hope, one common glory — that 
American spirit refused to accept what emper- 
ors and kings would have given even scepters 
to have possessed for a single hour. 

"Yes, indeed, it was a priceless trophy, but 



who can chisel its value in marble or paint its 
sentiment en canvas ? Who can write the heart- 
pangs of Lee when the hour at last confronted 
him and the redeeming sense of pride in the 
proof of American brotherhood so prompt of 
assertion, and who can say it was not his no- 
ble character that inspirerd it into action — who 
can chisel it all into faithful image. 

"Jackson! Invincible 'Stonewall' Jackson! 
Paint, ye who can, the matchless splendor of his 
achievements upon countless fields and the 
measure of his genius. Invincible in baLtle as 
immaculate in soul, what a shadow fell o'er the 
Southland in his hour of victory at Chancellors- 
ville — when the war god called him to council in 
the heavens. And Albert Sidney Johnston ! 
Shiloh and Chancellorsville ! Wliat an awful 
price to pay for victory, what irreparable loss to 
the Confederacy, but how glorious the grave. 

THE LONGSTREET CORPS. 

"And Longstreet's corps — the battering ram 
of the Confederacy. And Hood's Brigade — 
sweeping like a tempest across the gory field 
and into the jaws of death. Invincible Texans, 
with the ever-living spirit of the Alamo and 
San Jacinto unfurled in their heroic bosoms 
upon many a hard-fought field. At Boonsboro; 
at Sharpsburg, where the noble first Texas fight- 
ing against heavy odds left four-fifths of their 
number upon the field. At Gaines' Mill, where 
the Fourth Texas, first to pierce the stronghold 
of the enemy, but leaving over one-half of the 
regiment upon the field, and where the gallant 
Hood's Brigade, composed of the First, Fourth 
and Fifth Texas and the Eighteenth Georgia 
and Hampton's Legion, fought their way into 
the very heart of the enemy — what artist could 
picture such deeds of valor, or picture its battle- 
rent flags and the devotion interwoven with 
every thread? 

"Hampton's Legion ! Ah, the brave South 
Carolinians; no braver soldiers over lived than 
they, and the Eighteenth Georgia, called 
througli a spirit of brotherhood 'the Third 
Texas,' sharing as a part of Hood's Brigade in 
its battles and its glories, and with equal cour- 
age. No wonder that Lee and Jackson and 
Longstreet relied upon this brigade and called 
upon it when hard fighting was to be done; it 
was always readv for fight at any time, at any 
place, in any way; not only ready, but foutrht. 
The first to strike the enemy and the last to 
leave it. 

"Again we find them at Thoroughfare Gap, 
and second Manassas. Victorious, do you ask? 
Why, of course. Didn't you know that Hood's 
Brigade was composed of the ragged-robed First 
Texas, so named because before the war its 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



members wore well ventilated clothing, duo to 
the warm climate of Texas it is supposed, and 
further, because during the war, anticipating 
the extreme heat of battle, they wore clothing 
still better ventilated. However, it is under- 
stood that their coats were in good order. But 
feathers are no proof of flesh, and no truer 
heart'5 ever be it than those that responded to 
the call of the South by the men of the heroic, 
though ragged. First Texas. Their clothes may 
have been torn, and often indeed their bodies, 
but their patriotism was intact and unflinching 
to the end. 

"Then there was the Eighteenth Georgia 
fighters, too, and, with no superiors in valor 
anywhe e on earth; heroes of the Rock fence 
at Fredeiicksburg, where the gallant Meigs' 
Irish Brigade went down before it like wheat 
before the whirlwind. And they were gallant 
soldiers, those Irish boys of Meigs, and brave 
as the bravest, but they were up against the 
Eighteenth Georgia — what else could they ex- 
pect? 

AND Hampton's legion. 

"And Hampton's Legion ! Ah, the brave, in- 
trepid, unconquerable South Carolinians. Shoul- 
der to s'loulder with the Texans and Georgians 
of Hood's Brigade they wrote history — bloody 
history it is true — but magnificent in the gran- 
deur of its valor at Gaines' Mill and upon a 
hundred fields, imtil it seems as though the 'tar 
heel' was the emblem of victory and glory every- 
where. 

"And later the Thirteenth Aikansas, selected 
heroes from heroic thousands, fit comrades for 
the bravest of the brave — fighters everywhere — 
and with a record for intrepid courage quite in 
keeping with the Texans. 

"And the Fourth Texas — the 'hell roaring 
Fourth' — what a name — but what a people, and 
what other soldiery could earn the title? None 
could shout louder, fight harder and earlier, or 
quit later. No wonder they were called the 
•hell-roaring.' In the light of valorous history 
written upon sanguinary fields we are justified 
in transposing and calling them 'roaring hell.' 

"And they do say that chickens 'roosted high' 
when those Texans were around. Well, even 
chickens have instinct, and somehow seemed to 
understand that these brave boys, except when 
in battle, whrn their gaze was intently and earn- 
estly forward, w-ere generally looking down — 
counting or burying their own dead or the ene- 
my's dead during intervuls between battles. 

""And then 'the Bloody Fifth!' And it was 
no misnomer — they had earned the title and 
baptized it in the blood of heroes — North and 
South, upon many a field. At Manassas, where 
the Federal Zouaves were annihilated and the 



field left strewn with their bright uniforms and 
lifeless bodies. Onward swept invincible Hood's 
Brigade, capturing batteries and colors and 
men, pushing back the enemy so far that even 
Longstreet — dashing, invincible — cyclonic in 
battle, as he was. had to send a message to those 
intrepid Texans to proceed less rapidly, as he 
could not keep up with them and in supporting 
distance. But tlie Texans knew no bounds to 
valor, and as the gallant XTpton had been slain, 
in the language of Hood, these dauntless spirits 
'slipped the bridle,' broke loose from its brigade 
and dashed into the seething carnage of death. 
Ah ! Alamo and San Jacinto ! Valorous deeds 
have sprung from the seed of thy patriotism, 
and though it is sleeping quietly in the days of 
peace, it but needs the call of bugle and the roll 
of drum to light its fires into grand, beautiful 
and glorious flame upon a thousand hills and in 
one thousand times one thousand hearts. 

hood's inspiration. 

"Wlio can wonder at Sharpsburg, and Round 
Top Hill, and Thoroughfare Gap, and Manas- 
sas, at Chickamauga, at Gettysburg, at Cold 
Harbor or Gaines' Mill? Who can wonder at 
the deeds of the battle-scarred Hood, when one 
remembers his inspiration ? Born beneath the 
bright blue sky of my own Kentucky home, 
transplanted to Texas and became a Texan by 
adoption, breathed the atmosphere of its patri- 
otism that makes heroes of her sons whether by 
birth or adoption, and hence a Texan like the 
gallant members of his brigade — heroes of many 
a bloody field. They could destroy an arm at 
Gettysburg; they could take from him a leg at 
Chickamauga ; they could reduce his body, but 
not his spirit, and .I'ust in proportion as his body 
was reduced, his patriotism grew greater in 
determined resistance to invasions of his coun- 
try and in defense of honor. Who could pic- 
ture such as this? By what genius could be 
wrought in marble or in bronze the deeds of 
Hood's Brigade with all its sufferings and its 
valor, with oftimcs its stomach empty of food, 
yet its heart full and to spare of rich patriotic 
blood. For they were men — 'men behind the 
gun' in spirit and in deed. Chisel nor brush nor 
pen can reproduce that which God in His su- 
preme handiwork had made inimitable — it is 
beyond the art of earthly num. 

"And all for Dixie! Immortalized in song and 
ver,se. Dixie ! Away down South in Dixie ! How 
sweet its melody — how dear its flood of memo- 
ries. Ringing as it did among the hills and val- 
leys of the dear old Southland and in the hearts 
of men, so will it ever ring among the hills of 
time. No enchanting bard ere sang so sweetly 
to his lute; no courtly nightingale ere sang so 



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97 



tenderly to his mate. At once the pledge of 
faith and love, it fills the hearts of men in pa- 
triotism inseparable from the South and its his- 
tory. Inspired by devotion, it lives in glory and 
will die only when glory may cease to live. And, 
as I speak to you, I remember, when a bare- 
foot boy I firs^t heard its entrancing strains, and 
it seemed as if all nature — its good and its evil 
— its pride and its humility — its love and its 
memories — were blended in one beautiful in- 
spiring song. 

HOW DIXIE THRILLS. 

"Yes, Dixie ! We hail thee, the embodiment 
of faith, of chivalry and patriotism. Like the 
rose it sends sweet fragrance into the hearts of 
men and liie the ivy binds us closer together. 
No other strain can so arouse the soul — none 
other may cause the lifeblood to course through 
the veins of men. On distant shores thy sons and 
daughters may gather — to other climes they may 
be called — but thy sweet inspiring strains, float- 
ing like sweet memories across the hills and vales 
of time, will bring them back again to Dixie and 
to home. 

"Play once more its strain, oh bard, and let 
the last days of heroes revel with its glory ; sing 
again its words of patriotic devotion and let its 
inspiration fill the hearts of sons and daughters 
of glory land. Strike once again the harp and 
let the gladdening shouts of heroes pay their 
tribute of valor and patriotism to the advancing 
years as a precious legacy to endless time. 

"But when the last bugle call is made, when 
the last roll of the drum is heard, when the call 
is made to heavenly arms, then will the image 
in form and spirit be complete before the in- 
finite sculptor. It is then that peace will be 
eternal and the spirit of the hero will marshal 
in the home of his creator. Heaven will be the 
gainer — earth the loser — except in grateful 
memory of the noble sacrifices of men. 

"Did I say 'of men,' Mr. Chairman ? Then let 
me correct myself and say 'of men and women,' 
for they, too, had their sufferings and bore them 
bravely and with equal patriotism. They, too, 
had their battles, not so bloody, it is true, but 
calling for equal heroism, and they, too, in a 
thousand ways, responded to their country's call 
with equal sacrifices, and surrounded it with a 
halo of devotion. 

SOUTHERN WOMEN PRAISED. 

"God bless our Southern women ! He must 
have looked away into the distant years and took 



her for his model when he gave a sweet com- 
panionship to man. With pity for the loneliness 
of that which He had created in His own 
image. He took a rib from next his heart, and 
adding to it the immaculate leaves of the lily, 
the petals of the sweet red rose, the sweetest bal- 
sams from India land, the finest grains of gold, 
and the purest jjarticles of steel He modeled it 
into beautiful form. Brecthing into her throat 
the soft voice of sylvan waterfall and the sweet 
call of the nightingale He wrajiped her in 
folds of the first rays of the morning sun, and 
then reaching up into the azure dome of heaven 
He gathered two brightest stars that she might 
see the world she was to elevate, and kissed her 
into life. 

"He had made woman ! She was the first 
great work of art of the masterpiece of the in- 
finite architect — God's last thought, but it was 
God's best thought. 

"And when she stepped forth from His hand, 
beautiful and sublime — the flowers sprung into 
life and bloom, in the valleys and upon hilltops, 
and the feathered songsters of the air gathered 
above her in one glad, glorious chorus of song. 
Created after man she has followed his foot- 
steps, healing the cruel wounds left by his iron 
heel. Teaching him lessons of kindness and t3n- 
demess, yet sharing in his sufferings, where is 
the sculptor, or painter, or writer, who can pic- 
ture her heart torn with the miseries of war or 
the peace flowing from her tender heart and 
lips and the careful nursing of her tender hands 
as tlie life-blood of a thousand heroes welled 
from cruel wounds received upon the field of 
carnage? Engraven upon her heart it may be 
seen, but not upon canvas, or in marble or vol- 
ume. 

"Yes ! When God molded finest grains of gold 
and truest particles of steel into her being — He 
must have taken as model the noble woman of 
our Southland. And when the last call of the 
bugle is sounded — the last roll of drum is heard 
the Confederate women will gather with that 
heroic brigade in the home of the heavens, and 
the Texan heart— the great Southern heart will 
be big enough, grateful enough and warm 
enough to hold and fold in endearing memory, 
all these noble, heroic spirits — men and women 
— until the advancing years shall cease to an- 
swer to the toll of time. 

"And when the angel's bugle sounds, the call 
'to arms' in heaven is made, there'll be no more 
glorious heroes there than the gallant Hood'.s 
Brigade." 



SENATOR BAILEY PAYS GREAT TRIBUTE TO 
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS. 



OPPOSED WEOXG TEACHIXG. 

"I remember when I first became a citizen of 
Texas, there was a gentleman from a Xorthem 
State at the head of the public schools of Gaines- 
ville. I soon found that he was teaching a his- 
torv that called Confederate soldiers rebels, and 
presented a Xorthem view of the war between 
the States. I took the street comei^, and 
aroused a public sentiment that drove him from 
his place. (Cries of 'Good, good.') 

''I said there what I sav here today, that I 
would infinitely rather my boy should be taught 
that twice two makes sixteen than to have him 
taught that his grandfather was a rebel and a 
traitor. (Applause.) 

"The truth of history was on the side of the 
Confederate army. This Union could never have 
been formed if. when it was organized, it had 
been proclaimed that it cotild not be dissolved 
for any cause, however great or small. Xor was 
the South the first section to undertake to assert 
the doctrine of secession. The first attempt at 
secession in this TTnion was made, and succ-ess- 
fully m.ade, in Xew England. 

'"Termont was the first seceding State. Ver- 
mont was originally a part of Xew York. With- 
out the consent and over the protest of Xew 
York, Vermont seceded from it. Xew York 
sued in vain to exercise her authority over that 
commonwealth and Vermont was the first seced- 
ing State from the Union of States. 

'■"Had I been here and within the age of rea- 
son. I know what view I would have taken. I 
would have joined Jefferson Davis in his mem- 
orable declaration when he said, TThis is a tinion 
of our father. We will remain in it and with 
it as long as we can do so with honor and safety.' 
(Long applattsv.) But when I became con- 
vinced that we could not longer remain in the 
Union with Tionor and safety,' so help me God, 
I would have withdrawn and cast my lot with 
Jefferson Davis. (Applatise.) 

DIBX EATERS OF THE XOBTH. 

'"Tt was not Jefferson Davis who brought on 
the war. It was the dirt eaters of the North. I 
have heard them sav that Jefferson Davis was 
responsible for the war, but the man who says it 
has neither truth in his mind nor fear of God in 
his heart. He was the last of all conspicuous 
Southern statesmen to give up the hope of a 
reconciliation between the sections. Why ther- 
are Mississippians here, if there be any (cries of 
'yes, there are') who will remember that the 
Legislature of Mississippi one vear before the 



war was declared adopted a resolution commend- 
ing vigorouslv the patriotism of A. G. Brown 
and deploring the conservatism of Jefferson 
Davis. Davis and Brown were the Senators 
from Mississippi. Brown was for action with- 
out an effort to compromise. Davis still pro- 
claimed this a 'Union of our fathers, and we 
will remain with it and in it so long as we can 
do so with honor and safety,' and up to the very 
hour his beloved State of Mississippi seceded 
from the Union, the best energies of JeffeKon 
Davis were devoted to effecting a reconciliation 
between the sections. But when ilississippi se- 
ceded he went with them, not because he loved 
the Union less, but because he loved the State 
of Mississippi more. (Applatise.) 

LOVES STATE BETTEB THAX yATIOS. 

"I do not comprehend the patriotism of the 
man who subordinates his State to his nation 
any more than I can comprehend the affection of 
a son who prefers his grandmother to his mother 
in his love. As I love my father better than I 
did his father, so I love my State better than my 
Union. (Applause.) That was Jefferson Davis' 
patriotism. 

"And this 'Union of our fathers.' It was a 
Southern man that at the head of the Colonial 
army achieved the independence of the Ameri- 
can colonies. It was a Southern man, who sat as 
the President of the constitutional convention: 
it was a Southern man whose brains and hand 
did most to frame the constitution under which 
we live; it was a Southern man who with his 
eloquence thrilled the United States during the 
dark hours of colonial despotism that his 
c-ountrymen arose as one man to die in the cause 
of liberty, and to this day children repeat until 
their little sisters and brothers catch from their 
lips those inspiring words which were a call to 
arms as they fell from the lips of the immortal 
Henry. These words more than all others 
sormded the bugle call to that united victory. 

"It was a Southern man that drafted the 
Declaration of Independence. I love all these 
glorious heritages. In our mind Mr. Davis was 
well justified in saying that it was a 'Union of 
our fathers.' 

"Hereafter, my countrymen, if any one tells 
yon that Jefferson Davis was a fireeater, take 
iiim gently by the hand and lead him to that 
fotintain of ptire knowledge from which our 
children are given by the State's munificence to 
drink and let him read there the immortal 
truths of history, and let him learn that Jeffer- 
son Davis became the chosen leader of the 



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99 



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AGAISrST FKABTTL aOO&. 



for love of z'- - i- With the irorid to draw from, 
■B-e c-culd not have conqnered. 

"Bnt even thoo^ we lost the battlts, eveD 
though tl^ev emaneqiated our slaves, eren 
though they laid onr coTmtnr wast^ and sent to 
an pntimelT grave many of the "test and brav^t, 
I stiQ find it in my heart to nneover at the feet 
of a Confederate moramDeat, and thank God for 
the i^wrtanity he gave onr people to exhibit 
saetk sublime oonrage and such matchless forti- 
tude. (Applause.) 

'^ut, my eoimtiTicen, it is not enough foi 
me meiely to speak in defense of die SoDtheiB 
people without some word to those men who 
tare made the glorious history of the Sooth. 
(Applause.) Make all due aHowanee for my 
p.artialitT— and I am partial Every fiber of 
my namre is intensely Southern. I do not hate 
the Xonii. bnt I jttst lore the South. (Ap- 
platise.) The only Xorthem man I hate is the 
Xorthem man who hatiK these C-onfef erate vet- 
erans here. (Applanse.) I am willing to dt 
and hear Xorthem men praise the valor of 
Xorthem solciei^. I am willing to say that they 
were brave and tme: they had to be or else 
tbey could not have won from Jackson or Lee. 
(Applause.) But the time when I break the 
harmoDy of tie occasion is when he says some- 
thing against the South." (Great applause.) 



: Tr. BailCT landed ihe C<Hifederate soldier 

: - ;:- '^'t-^ry. for his eomage, for his forti- 

:- e first Manaaeas to the last battle 

Tixii. Tze Soutli. be dedaied, had no Ben- 

- Ar::'"". sr^ thst there were no men who 

~:]Tes by thdr oowardiee 

irlnr. ;; - _ - ^ - : - w. 

As ar r of the heroian of the Con- 

fecerste - -: ilr. Bailey tdd a beaofifnl 

- ?t:— :: tir Tirginia boy who jmned the Con- 

- whai the iio(^ paseed throo^ 

- d whn when mortal^ woonded 

' ' was removed to a moood 
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SOLDIEES IN" WAK ; CITIZEXS IX PIACE. 

"The courage of the Confederate soldier after 
he had surrendered, when he returned to his 
home and found his field desolated, his wife 
careworn, and some of the members of his fam- 
ily dead, did not become disheartened, but 
bnUded anew. These men who had made such 
splendid soldiers in time of war, resolved to 
show the world that thev could make just as 
splendid citizens in time of peace. (Applause.) 
I believe, mv countrymen, that this is the great- 
est test man can be subjected to. Mere courage 
mav make a brave soldier in time of war. and 
virtue and industry may make a good citizen in 
time of peace, but whoever makes a great sol- 
dier in time of war and a good citizen in time 
of peace must be brave, must be honest, and 
must be industrious, too. (Great applause.) 

"All of these men, now that the battles are 
over, and now that the flags are furled, not 
a soldier that is worthy the name, that doe? 
not enjoy life, confidence and respect of his fel- 
low countrymen. (Applause.) Then, my coun- 
trymen, if you fJid your duty, and if you de- 
6erve our thanks and praise, what shall be said 
of the way in which your wives, and daughters, 
and your sisters did theirs." 

Mr. BaUev paid a glowing tribute to the 
Southern woman, and showed by their acts and 
by the inspiration the thoughts of them afford- 
ed to the soldier, whether at the camp fire, on 
the march, or in battle. "As God made you bet- 
ter than your fellows. He had to make your 
helpmeet better than you were, and He did His 
work, as He always does His work, perfectly." 
(Applause.) 

Mr. Bailey closed with an appeal to the young 
men, now that the ranks of the old Confed- 
erates were thinning out, that so long as they 
live no man shall insult their memory. 

When Mr. Bailey had finished his address the 
cheering lasted several minutes. The old Con- 
federates crowded arotmd the Senator, eager to 
shake his hand, and he held a reception that 
lasted fully half an hour. It was a great greet- 
ing to a young orator by the men who fought 
for the Confederacv. 



MONUMENT TO JOHN B. HOOD. 
(Houston Chronicle, on Navasota Eeunion.) 

The movement inaugtirated at the Navasota 
reunion to erect a monument to General John 
B. Hood on the capitol groimds at Austin is in 
everv wav commendable. 

The name of John B. Hood is linked with 
the Texas brigade which he commanded in in- 
dissoluble bonds of glorv and honor. 



It carved an ineffaceable record on the scroll 
of fame. 

It received the unstinted plaudits of Robert 
E. Lee, and won for itself a fame as fadeless as 
the stars. 

It will be most fit to put upon the capitol 
grounds of the State, the history of which he 
made luminous by his deeds, the majestic figure 
of John B. Hood, there to stand with those other 
symbolic shafts and monuments which perfet- 
uate the name and fame of the sons of Texas 
and the soldiers of the South. 

Monuments on one side of that spacious ave- 
nue typifying the dash, the valor and the devo- 
tion of Tenys dauntless band of rangers, and 
on the other side perpetuating in enduring 
bronze the name and deeds of Hood's Brigade 
will be sufficient to consecrate these grounds 
unto glory forever, for never did nobler defend- 
ers than those who constituted those two com- 
mands ever bare their breasts to the deadly hail 
of battle, or never did nobler sentinels keep 
watch over a beloved land 

Texas should honor Hood, for he reflected 
upon her unfading glory. 



HOOD'S BRIGADE MONUMENT. 
(Houston Post, on Xavasota Eeunion.) 

The Hood's Texas Brigade Association, at its 
recent reunion in Xavasota, determined upon 
the erection on the capitol grounds at Austin 
of a monument to General John B. Hood and 
his Texas Brigade, and to that end the proper 
committees were appointed to raise the funds. 
The record of this famous brigade during the 
Civil War was one of continuous brilliant 
achievement. In valor, devotion and patriot- 
ism, these Texans were not excelled by any 
other troops of the Confederacy. They illus- 
trated the loftiest qualities of true fighting men 
and reflected everlasting luster upon the State 
of Texas. Their leader was one of the most gal- 
lant of a brilliant galaxy of Southern heroes, 
and it is meet and proper that the survivors of 
this noble band and their children and chil- 
dren's children should wish to perpetuate the 
deeds of Hood and his Texans in enduring 
granite and bronze. 

It is believed that the people of Texas, proud 
of Hood's Brigade, will consider it a privilege 
to assist in erecting at Austin a monument that 
will suitably commemorate its imperishable 
deeds. To do thL? will require a large sum of 
money, for no ordinary memorial can properly 
blazon to posterity the mighty achievements of 
Hood's superb soldiers. 

The Post bespeaks for this movement the 
sympathy and support of all Texans. It makes 



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little difference on which side one may have 
fought. What Hood's Brigade did constitutes 
an imperishable example of American valor and 
posterity will not, in pondering the deeds of the 
Civil War heroes, stop to judge their motives. 
There will be few children two generations 
hence who will not count among their forbears 
soldiers of both armies, and at that distance 
from the conflict all will be honored alike. 

If every Texan will contribute a small sum 
to the Hood monument fund the committee will 
be able to erect a memorial that will amply 
prove our devotion to the memory of the heroes 
whose rich contributions to our history consti- 
tute a priceless heritage for all the people. 



WIVES AND CHILDREN OF VETERANS 
ENROLLED AT NAVASOTA. 

At Navasota reunion Comrade J. C. Loggins 
made some splendid remarks when speaking of 
a past resolution wherein all Sons and Daugh- 
ters had been made honorary members of the 
Association, and how little attention had been 
made to eniolling their names. He urged that 
we were fast passing away, and if we expected 
our Fons and daughters to keep our memory 
green and the record of Hood's Texas Brigade 
alive, it was time we were enrolling their names. 
Comrade Loggins was right and enrollment be- 
gan at once. Following is a list of honorary- 
members as then and there prepared : 

Mr. W. E. Wilson, Navasota. 

Mrs. J. B. Beatty, Houston. 

Miss Katie Daffan, Ennis. 

Mrs. Hallie Jones Wofford, Cameron. 

Jones Wofford, Cameron. 

Nat Wofford, Cameron. 

J. B. Fuqua, Houston. 

Miss Julia Branard, Houston. 

Mrs. B. W. Pierce, Navasota. 

Mrs. W. A. Watson, Thornton. 

Mrs. W. J. Town, Powell. 

Miss Lillian Sessions, Rice. 

Miss Winnie M. Loggins, Ennis. 

J. C. Loggins, Jr., Ennis. 

Mrs. H. H. Hilyard, Rogers. 

Miss Ola Walling, Corsicana. 

Mrs. J. IT. Drennan, Calvert. 

Miss Sherrill, Rosebud. 

Mrs. J. H. Plasters, Temple. 

Miss Sneed, Rosebud. 

Miss Sneed, Rosebud. 

Mrs. A. M. Clay, Independence. 

Mrs. Anna W. Brantley, Somerville. 

Mrs. B. T. Wellborn, Somerville. 

R. A. Brantley, Jr., Somerville. 

Miss Maggie Eldridge, Brenham. 

Miss Sherrill, Ben Arnold. 



Mrs. J. W. Dallas, Brenham. 

Miss Johnson, Palestine. 

Mrs. W. H. Mathews, Livingston. 

Mrs. J. E. Landes, Chappell Hill. 

Mrs. W. T. Hill, Maynard. 

Mrs. J. C. Hill, Maynard. 

Miss Felder, Chappell Hill. 

Mrs. C. H. Holman. 

Miss Mamie Barry, Navasota. 

Mrs. J. F. Spann, Navasota. 

l\Irs. A. Y. Bryan, Columbia. 

Bowers Chilton, Houston. 

Mabelle Chilton, Houston. 

Mrs. Mabel Bowers Chilton, Houston. 

Miss Kate A. Norwood, Navasota. 

Ewing Norwood, Navasota. 

Shields Norwood, Navasota. 

Mrs. Stella Martin Brosig, Navasota. 

Miss Ira Mai Blackshear, Navasota. 

Mrs. Bessie Bnrrv Blackshear, Navasota. 

Mrs. Roland McCune, Navasota. 

Mrs. G. C. Stoneham, Navasota. 

J. S. Martin, Navasota. 

D. M. Martin, Navasota. 

C. H. Martin. Navasota. 

Mrs. Jessie B. Lott, Navasota. 

Mrs. Jessie Lott Peterson, Navasota. 

Mrs. J. F. Martin, Navasota. 

Mrs. J. T. Evans, Navasota. 

Mrs. J. B. Dibrell, Segnin. 

Mrs. Mary Hunt Affleck, Brenham. 

Miss Decea Lamar West, Waco. 

Miss Lessie T. Sauls, Beaumont. 

Many other names will be added as soon as 
comrades send in the names of their children 
to the secretary. 

Registry of Sons and Daughters present as 
follows : 

Children of Colonel R. J. Harding — Edwin 
J. Harding, Jackson, Miss. ; May A, Harding, 
Jackson, Miss. 

Children of Joe J. Hail — Amanda L. Steel, 
Birdstown, Texas; Margaret Jane Kelley, Cor- 
sicana, Texas ; Mary Robert Gregory, Street- 
man, Texas ; Fannie Lee Stern, Fairfield, 
Texas ; Rose Gertrude Hail, Corsicana, Texas. 

Children of Dr. Sam R. Burroughs — Mrs. 
Evie Lee Hill, Buffalo, Texas; Mrs. Cora I^e 
Baker, Brownwood, Texas; Mrs. May Ijouclia 
Glen, Brownwood. Texas; Robert Edgar Bur- 
roughs. Buffalo, Texas. 

Children of A. Miles — Mrs. G. N. Goodwin, 
C. F. Miles, Mrs. Louise McWilliams, Miss 
Alice Miles, W. A. Miles, Mrs. George C. El- 
lington. 

Sons and Daughters of Brigade — William 
Longino, son of Thomas Longino, Company E. 



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Children of J. N. Johnson, Company F, 
Fourth Texas T?ep;iment — Mrs. H. P. Barron, 
Crystal Springs, Miss. ; W. C. Johnson, Spencer, 
Va. ; Mrs. M. V. Smith, Florence, Miss. ; J. N. 
Johnson, Palestine, Te.\as; J. D. Johnson, 
Spencer, Va. ; Rev. C. T. Johnson, Waco, Texas ; 
Mrs. Bessie Lee Mannix, Birmingham, Ala. ; 
Mrs. Lnla G. Morrow, Gorgona, Panama; Mrs. 
A. L. Bridges, Cornhill, Texas; Miss Carrie A. 
Johnson, Palestine, Texas; Jim E. Johnson, 
Palestine, Texas. 



MAGNIFICENT GIFT PRESENTED AS- 
SOCIATION AT NAVASOTA REUNION 
BY SON OF A COMRADE. 

LOVING CUP PRESENTED. 

The association had a pleasant surprise when 
Hon. A. P. Brigance approached the stand with 



a carefully wrapped package of large dimen- 
sions, and, craving the attention of the associa- 
tion, delivered a beautiful eulogy to the brave 
of every nation, replete with special allusions to 
the part Texas and Texas heroes had played be- 
fore the eyes of the world on every field where 
her men and courage were called into requisi- 
tion, from earliest Texas down to now ; and 
when he touched on Hood's Texas Brigade he 
unfolded to our view a beautiful loving cup of 
magnificent design and generous proportions, 
and presented it to the association in beautiful 
sentiment as coming from W. E. Wilson in 
honor of his father, R. T. Wilson, a member of 
the brigade. 

The cup was received with fitting words by 
Captain W. T. Hill, president of the association. 

The cup was, by voice of the association, 
placed in charge of the president, with instruc- 
tions that he have it at each recurring reunion. 



VALUABLE BRIGADE HISTORY BY AN ABLE 
COMRADE, AT NAVASOTA. 



"THREE GLORIOUS REGIMENTS." 

By Comrade Wm. E. Barry, Lieutenant Company G, 
Fourth Texas Regiment. 

There were only three Texas regiments in the 
Virginia army: The First Texas Regiment In- 
fantry. Colonel Lewis T. Wigfall; the Fourth 
Texas Regiment Infantry, Colonel Jno. B. 
Hood; the Fifth Texas Regiment Infantry. 
Colonel J. J. Archer. 

Brigaded with these three regiments at the 
time they were formed into a brigade, was the 
Eighteenth Georgia Infantry, Hampton's Le- 
gion of South Carolina, and Reiley's celebrated 
battery of Light Artillery. The two regiments 
were separated from us in 18G3, and attached 
to us thereafter to the close of the war was the 
Third Arkansas Infantry. 

Our winter quarters in 1861-2 was near Dum- 
fries on the Potomac. Considerable scouting 
service was done by the brigade during the win- 
ter on the Occoquan and Potomac, and these 
laid the foundation of the high reputation we 
afterward gained and so eminently maintained 
to the close of the bloody drama. 

Our first regular battle occurred on the 7th 
day of May, 1863, at what is known in history 
as Eltham's Landing on York river, and by some 
as West Point. The army, under command of 
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, was on the march from 
Yorktown to Richmond, followed by Gen. Mc- 
Clellan and the Yankee army. Early in the 



morning the brigade was quietly marching on 
the road, bringing up the rear of the Confed- 
erate army. When on top of a high hill we were 
fired upon very suddenly from an apple orchard 
at a distance from not over 50 yards, the Fourth 
Texas being in advance of the brigade with 
General Hood at the head of the column. We 
were marching according to orders with un- 
loaded gims — only one man, John Deel of West 
Texas, had his gun loaded ; he quickly fired 
and brought one of the Yankees to the ground 
out of an apple tree. Only one man was wound- 
ed by this fire into our ranks — Hart T. Sapp, 
now residing at Houston — who has the honor 
of being the first man belonging to the brigade 
wounded in battle. Although the fire upon us 
was sudden and unexpected, there was no panic 
among the Texans. who proceeded at once to 
load their rifles and fired a volley into the 
squad of Yankees, killing four of them before 
they could escape to the timber. 

Company G from Grimes county, and Com- 
pany B from Travis county, two very large 
companies, were tlirown out as skirmishers and 
advanced down 600 yards through an old field 
towards the dense woods in the bottom lands of 
York river. We fully expected to receive a vol- 
ley from the enemy just before we entered the 
timber, btit not a gim was fired at us. We dis- 
covered just within the timber the four dead 
Yankees. As we advanced we became actively 
engaged fighting from tree to tree. Steadily ad- 



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vancing, the three Texas regiments became 
heavily engaged, and more particularly the First 
Texas, which had a fearful struggle with the 
First California. After repeated charges and 
repulses they succeeded in driving the First Cal- 
ifornia under the protection of the gunboats in 
the York river. The engagement was between 
Franklin's Division and the Texas Brigade. His- 
tory devotes but scarcely half a page to this bat- 
tle. Its successful result saved the army wagon 
trains with its supplies and munitions of war 
belonging to the Confederate army, for which 
we received the following thanks and praise of 
Gen. Gustave A. Smith, commanding the di- 
vision : — 

"The Texans won immortal honor for them- 
selves, their State, and for their commander. 
General Hood, at the battle of Eltham Landing, 
near West Point. With 40,000 such men I would 
not hesitate to invade the North, and would be- 
fore winter make them sue for peace upon our 
terms, or destroy their whole country. But in 
praise of the Texas Brigade of ray Division I 
could talk a week, and then not say half they 
deserve. If the regiments now organized in 
Texas could be transported here and armed to- 
morrow, properly led, they would end the war 
in three months." 

For fear this article may be too long, I pass 
by other scenes and battles, and at once enter 
upon the great charge made at Gaines' Mill on 
the 27th of June. 1862. where the Fourth Texas 
won imperishable renown. The enemy had re- 
pulsed all the forces brought against them and 
held a high hill beyond Powhite creek ; several 
hundred yards beyond the creek, the space be- 
tween the apex of the hill and the creek, which 
was densely timbered, the timber having been 
cut down forming a chevaux de frise of the tim- 
ber. The hill was entrenched. The Fourth 
Texas was formed in line of battle on a timber 
covered ridge ; we were under the immediate 
eyes of Generals Lee and Stonewall Jackson. 
Some six hundred yards in front was an open 
field without anything to obstruct the view of 
the enemy from the hill two hundred yards be- 
yond the creek. General Hood placed himself 
in the lead of the regiment with orders not to 
fire until we arrived at the creek. The command 
was given to forward. At once we began the des- 
perate charge (and though witli forlorn hope, 
we recognized that it was the key to the entire 
battlefield), with steady steps, and as if on dress 
parade, we marched amid crashing shell and 
shot. Silence appeared to prevail on the whole 
line of battle as if to witness the desperate 
charge of the Texans where others had so often 
been repulsed. Onward we continued to ad- 
vance; crashing shell and grape shot flew thick 



and fast over and around us, cutting down our 
brave comrades at every step. Above all this din 
was heard the voice of Hood, "Close up," "right 
dress." Steadily through all this hell on earth 
we arrived on the banlvs of Powhite creek ; to 
this point we had not fired a gun. The com- 
mand was given to fire and charge, then was 
heard over all the reverberation of the cannon, 
the volley of musketry. One long, wild, shrill 
Texas yell, terrible in its awful significance ! No 
spirits from hell itself ever uttered aiiything 
equal to this terrible cry ; with one wild, reck- 
less, desperate charge, we hurled ourselves upon 
the enemy, sweeping him before us like chaff 
before a cyclone, up the hill. Over the dead 
and dying we rushed like wild demons, clearing 
the hill and capturing four pieces of cannon 
wliich had hurled so many of our brave com- 
rades to eternity. In twenty-eight minutes from 
the time we commenced the charge (the hill was 
deemed impregnable) the situation was ours. 
The key to the battlefield was in the hand of 
General Lee. General Fitz John Porter, with his 
splendid division, was in rapid retreat, panic 
stricken, for the James river. 

Thus in this brief time was the name of 
Texas made glorious in all the annals of war. 

A few hours afterward, Stonewall Jackson, 
in examining the route we took and the position 
we captured, said in a few laconic words all a 
great soldier could say when he turned to those 
with him and said : "The men who took this po- 
sition were soldiers indeed." 

Fitz John Porter said in substance that no 
troops could resist the impetuosity of the charge 
made by the Texans. Senator Daniel, but a 
few days ago in his great speech at the reunion 
at Richmond, said in substance that no charge 
ever made in ancient or modern warfare ever 
surpassed this charge, and he witnessed it. 

Grimes county contributed her full quota of 
the deathless heroes — about forty of her sons 
being killed or wounded, among them being the 
gifted and lamented Capt. J. W. Hutcheson, 
Lieut. Lewis Butts and the genial soul, Capt. 
Tom Owen, who though commissary of the regi- 
ment, could not resist the temptation to go with 
us. 

I must again pass by other battles and take 
the brigade to Second Manassas, fought on the 
30th and 31st of August, 1862. Longstreet's 
corps formed on Jackson's right on its arrival 
in the forenoon of the 30th. Late that evening 
at sundown we advanced in line of battle. After 
nightfall we all got mixed up with the enemy 
so we could not tell friend from foe, and we 
finally found our way back to the position we 
occupied before. We did not get untangled 
until daylight, when one of our boys, Dick 



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Boozer, discovered that he had unwittingly 
bunked with a Yankee. Both were equally as- 
tonished and mutual explanations were in order. 
On the 31st we lay upon our arms listening to 
the continued sound of battle, when at 4 p. m. 
we were called to attention and begun another 
famous charge. 

Riley's battery opened fire upon a battery 
of Yankee artillery, and in the fire of the first 
piece planted a shell in a caisson, blowing it up. 
We charged the battery and captured its four 
pieces. In this charge the Fifth Texas covered 
itself with glory. Confronting them was the 
crack regiment of the Yankee army, the Fifth 
New York Zouaves, (Duryea's), which is said 
had been liunting the Fifth Texas, which held 
its fire until it got in a few paces of the Zouaves, 
when they delivered a most terrible and wither- 
ing fire "at short range right into them. Their 
wish had been gratified ; they met the Fifth 
Texas and were no longer a regiment, for they 
were left dead on the field of honor, for they 
were brave men. By the dim light of a lantern 
I visited this spot that night. I never saw more 
dead men on the same space of ground on any 
battle field of the war. Among the dead was 
that chivalric soul. Colonel J. C. Upton, Fifth 
Texas, who led his regiment like tlie true hero he 
was. He was a lion in battle, a lamb in peace. 

I stand again upon the historic field of 
Sharpsburg, IGth and irth of September, 1862. 
General Lee had thirty-three thousand men, 
McClellan over one hundred thousand. On the 
16th we were most of the time under artillery 
fire, interspersed with skirmishing. About 1 
o'clock on the morning of the 18th, rations, 
consisting of beef and flour, were issued to us, 
near the Dunkard church, with no cooking 
utensils. We made our flour up on our rub- 
ber blankets and cooked it on our ramrods, and 
broiled our meat on the coals. We were engaged 
at this pleasant occupation, when a terrible 
musketry fire opened on our right, and artillery 
commenced firing on our position. We were 
quickly in line of battle and going into the 
charge ; in doing so remember passing Stonewall 
.Tackson and General Hood, who were in earnest 
conversation in the midst of the charge. A Yan- 
kee regiment had ft Confederate flag which I 
presume they had captured from some Confeder- 
ate regiment. About fifty of us took after it. 
When I came to my senses, I was in a lane, and 
on my right was the First Texas in a cornfield 
about 50 to 100 paces from me. They were 
confronted it seemed to me by ten times their 
number, still standing firm and dying like 
beavers. We who were in the lane had all we 
could do in our own immediate front. In the 
midst of the conflict I happened to cast my eye 



to our rear and discovered the cornfield was 
full of the enemy, and that they had cut us off 
from the brigade. 

I at once made a dart in the direction of the 
Dunkard church to escape, and owing to smoke 
and fog fell into the hands of the Yankees and 
was made a prisoner ; they captured eighteen 
Texans. I was taken back to the rear a mile or 
two and then halted by the side of the road. 
I discovered a peculiar lone star flag coming 
down the road, being escorted by a band of 
Yankees. I discovered it was the First Texas 
flag ; they halted and a colonel of cavalry asked 
me if I knew the flag. I informed him it was 
the First Texas flag. I asked the man who had 
it where he got it. He said in the cornfield. I 
told him many men died before he got it. He 
said yes, when he found it there were thirteen 
dead men on and about it. I asked him to hand 
it to me a moment — he did so ; I kissed it and 
handed it back to him, my eyes blinded with 
tears. I am the last living Texan that had that 
splendid flag in his hands. 

In this battle the First Texas, by intrepid 
valor, held their position so long, they lost more 
men than any regiment during the war. 

I again pass over several other battles, to 
meet again on the 6th day of May, 1864, on the 
field of carnage, "The Wilderness." I behold 
once more Lee and Traveler. That morning 
before daylight we heard the rattle of a horse's 
feet in the public road rapidly approaching the 
camp ; in a few moments he dashed up on his 
panting horse ; we were quickly aroused from 
our much needed rest and were on the doublo 
quick to the run. The sun had begun to gild the 
tree tops and to sparkle upon the dewy grass. 
We dashed into the little glade where sat our 
beloved cliieftan upon his famous warhorse. He 
said he had lost ground that morning and he 
sent forces to take it back, and would lead us. 
From the entire line rang out, "Lee to the 
rear." "Lee to the rear." In a moment several 
men were about him, and old Traveler's head 
was turned back to the rear. Under such cir- 
cumstances the veriest coward would have went 
to bis death. With the wildest yell, the brigade 
once more hurled itself like an avalanche upon 
the enemy, driving him back and cutting his 
lines in two. 

This scene has been made immortal by the 
historian, the painter and the poet. Others 
claim the honor, but the survivors of Hood's 
Brigade know full well to them belongs the hon- 
or of this occasion. We went in that charge to 
do what our beloved chieftain wanted us to do 
or to die in the attempt. We accomplished our 
task, at a loss of our bravest com.rades, and 
Grimes County paid her tribute of blood. 



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105 



I have attempted in the above to give a short 
statement of the prominent battles in which the 
brigade acted with great gaUantry. It is a rec- 
ognized fact, among the survivors of the brigade, 
that the Fourth Texas had its inning at Gaines 
Mill, June 27, 1861; the Fifth Texas at Sec- 
ond Manassas, August 31, 18G2 ; and the First 
Texas at Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862. They 
acted their part well at Seven Pines, Freeman's 
Ford, Boonesborough Gap, the siege of Suffolk, 
where they fought every day for three weeks. 



They stormed Little Round Top and Big Round 
Top at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. They acted a 
distinguished part at Chickamauga Sept. 19 and 
20, 1863. In November, 1863, they besieged 
Knoxville, Tenn., but for the defeat of Bragg 
at Missionary Ridge, that city would have sur- 
rendered. From the 6th of May, 1864, at the 
Wilderness, they were in every engagement 
to the finale at Appomattox. They held a con- 
spicuous part always, and lost none of their 
laurels. 



A PARTIAL BIOGRAPHY AS A TRIBUTE TO 
GEN. JOHN B. HOOD. 



"In the fall of '61, a young Lieutenant of cav- 
alry reported for duty at Yorktown. He was 
immediately assigned to the command of all the 
cavalry on the peninsula, and given the tempor- 
ary rank of Major, till the appointment could 
be confirmed from Richmond. Our troops had 
been greatly harassed and annoyed by sensa- 
tional reports from the inexperienced and unor- 
ganized cavalry pickets. These false alarms im- 
mediately ceased at Yorktown, and were trans- 
ferred to the lines of the enemy. His maraud- 
ing parties were beaten and driven in. His 
scouts were captured or compelled to remain un- 
der the guns of his fortifications. The shiver- 
ing garrison at Newport News could not cut a 
stick of firewood, without the risk of ambuscade 
and death. In one of the expeditions of the 
bold Major, while driving through the woods 
a party of the enemy, a wounded Federal begged 
piteously for someone to pray for him. A Con- 
federate (we believe a cousin of General Mc- 
Clellan) halted, offered up an earnest petition 
for the dying man and then promptly regained 
his place in the chase. 

"The young officer left the peninsula to take 
charge of a regiment of Texans on the Poto- 
mac. With a noble band of congenial spirits 
and a more important field of enterprise, his 
highest qualities were rapidly developed. His 
untiring watchfulness and ardent zeal soon at- 
tracted all eyes. At Eltham's Landing, it was 
his good fortune to defeat McClellan's attempt 
to cut off Johnston's retreat from Yorktown. 
From that time forth "Hood and his Texans" 
became associated in men's minds with all that 
was efficient, enterprising and chivalrous. With 
the wreath and stars on his collar, he had other 
troops added, first to his brigade and then to 
his division. These were as tnie and dauntless, 
with some exceptions, as his old command. But 
by popular consent the brigade and the division 



were both spoken of as "Hood and his Texans." 
This may have been partly due to the sort of 
proprietary right which the Texans claimed in 
their youthful leader. The wonderful devotion 
of these men was intensified by the terrible or- 
deal of fire at Gaines' Mill. We heard the next 
day that on some previous occasion he had 
quieted his old regiment (which had felt ag- 
grieved by another being elected for a certain 
duty) by the promise to lead it in person in the 
next fight. When the regiment found itself in 
front of earthworks and battery of artillery ris- 
ing above battery the men called out to their 
General to remember his promise. Placing him- 
self in their front he carried them through as 
awful a storm of projectiles as ever beat upon 
the heads of devoted troops. The guns were cap- 
tured, the enemy was beaten; but alas! how few 
of that band of heroes were left to exult over 
the victory. Grief and not triumph marked the 
bearing of the leader of the charge for many a 
long day. His scouts were known to be the 
most daring as well as the most trustworthy in 
the army. We happened to be present on the 
morning of the battle of Malvern Hill when 
he directed one of his scouts to go through a 
ravine and bring in a prisoner. The man re- 
plied : "General, if it is more important to get 
one from the top of the hill, I think that I can 
manage it." 'Twas not very clear how a prisoner 
was to lie brought off in the face of that army of 
infantry and artillery. The General laughed 
and said that a man from the outpost would 
answer. And here we must digress a moment 
to notice a similar incident at Chickamauga. 
^lien Granger's Corps appeared on our flank 
latp in the afternoon he called up some of 
his men and said : "I want to know what troops 
those are ; bring me in some prisoners." In half 
an hour the squad was seen returning with three 
prisoners. "I knew that they would bring 



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them," was all the comment that he made. 
It was the very highest compliment that lan- 
guage could have employed. 

"When Garland was killed and liis brigade 
scattered, on the right of the turnpike at Boons- 
boro, the enemy had an open road to our rear. 
But he felt his way very cautiously and did not 
seem to be aware of his advantage till "Hood 
and his Te.xans"' stopped the way. 'Tis well 
known, too, how effectually and successfully they 
(covered the retreat that night, bringing off the 
immense parks of artillerv and trains of wagons. 
But 'tis not so well known how often the weary, 
the despondent and the broken do\\Ti, who had 
sunk down by the wayside, were encouraged to 
go on by the kind words of cheer and comfort 
spoken by the commander of the rearguard. 

"Then, too, the whole brunt of the infantry 
fight on the afternoon of the first day at Sharps- 
burg fell upon the same devoted troops. The 
wonderful deeds of prowess performed by these 
men on the next day were never surpassed by the 
knights of the age of chivalry. At early dawn 
that noble soldier and gentleman. Captain Ham- 
ilton of Hood's staff, came to the writer of this 
with a request for reinforcements. Three 
brigades (feeble in number) were sent him. 
With this slender support he beat and drove 
back Hooker's Corps and the blue coats lay as 
thick in his front as did the red breeches on the 
ground over which he made his terrible charge 
at second Manassas. But a fresh corps was 
thrown upon him and he in turn was forced to 
retire. The First Texas lost its flag, but not 
until (in the words of the General) "it was 
buried under a pile of its defenders." After the 
defeat of Hooker, General Hood thought that 
the easiest and most decisive victory of the war 
could have been won had he been supported by 
the troops which ought to have been up. 



"At Chicamauga Rosecrans withdrew a divi- 
sion from his right to meet Breckenridge's de- 
termined and successful assault on his left. This 
left a gap in his line of log breastworks unde- 
fended and Hood's quick eye detected it and his 
heroes were soon sweeping McCook and Crit- 
tenden before them, like chaff before the wind. 

"These services should never be forgotten. 
Men are more inclined to censure than to praise, 
and more apt to remember a disaster than a suc- 
cess. But we trust that so long as there is soul 
enough in the South to admire pure patriotism 
and noble deeds of prowess, 'Hood and his 
Texans' will be honored and loved. 

BRAVERY OF GENERAL HOOD. 

■'At one place where an entire forest of trees 
had been felled and sharpened in front of a 
Yankee redoubt to prevent the Confederates 
charging, General Hood walked out in front of 
the brigade and pointing to the freshly sharp- 
ened limbs of trees that glittered in the morn- 
ing sun like a solid rampart of brass pikes, 
said : 'Boys, I don't ask you to go any- 
where, but will you follow me?" Not a man of 
that immortal brigade faltered, but replied : "We 
will; we will," and "Three cheers for General 
Hood." Forward. 

"It has been done before, it has been done 
since and it will be done again by disciplined 
troops where the officers line up behind the pri- 
vates ready to shoot the first soldier that hesi- 
tates or looks to the right or left, but in Hood's 
Brigade every man was a volunteer and every 
inch a soldier, who knew no such word as fear. 

"Ten centuries hence school boys will read of 
Hannibal's Carthagenian Cavalry that rode 
bareback and without bridles, Caesar's Tenth 
Legion and Hood's Texas Brigade." 



DAUNTLESS COURAGE AND HEROIC DEEDS. 

True Hood's Brigade History, by Comrade W. E. Barry, Lieutenant 
Company G, Fourth Texas Regiment. 



On the 4th of September, 1862. Hood's Texas 
Brigade crossed the Potomac Eiver into Mary- 
land : after a few days of much needed rest at 
Frederic City, Maryland, we took up our march 
for Hagerstown with Ivongstreet's corps, in the 
meantime having destroyed the bridge of the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad over the Monocacy 
River. On the 14th day of September we left 
Hagerstown on a forced march for Boonesboro 
Gap : at the entrance to the gap the brigade 
stacked arms. We had become disgusted with 



the situation of affairs, and felt very much 
incensed at Gen. Evans, who commanded a 
South Carolina brigade, and being the senior 
of Gen. Hood, he ordered a lot of ambulances, 
which had been captured at Manassas, to be 
delivered to the Quartermaster of his brigade, 
which order Gen. Hood refused to obey, and for 
this reason Hood was put under arrest and or- 
dered to march in the rear of his brigade ; the 
ambulances had been captured by the Texans, 
was the cause of the refusal of Hood. The bri- 



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107 



gade declined to go in the fight commanded by 
Gen. Evans, of which Gen. WofFord notified 
Gen. Lee, who at once ordered Hood to take 
command of his brigade. As he rode through 
our ranks to the head of the brigade he was 
given quite an ovation. At once we formed 
line of battle on the right, fixed bayonets and 
charged ; the enemy quickly retreated from their 
position. We remained in position in the mean- 
time until Gen. Lee heard from Gen. Jackson 
at Harper's Ferry, where that intrepid General 
had captured eleven thousand prisoners, 73 
pieces of artillery and thirteen thousand small 
arms and other munitions of war. He then left 
Gen. A. P. Hill to attend to the final conclu- 
sion of the surrender. Gen. Jackson with the 
remainder of his army rapidly pushed forward 
to Sharpsburg, arriving there on the 16th of 
September, and uniting with Gen. Lee, on tha 
march to Sharpsburg, the 15th of September. 
Hood's Brigade brought up the rear among 
theiu that day. On the 16th of September at 
night we took position in an open field in front 
of the old Dunkard Church, confronting the 
Federal army, which in the meantime had 
crossed the Antietam River in large force. 

General Jackson's command being on out left, 
some time in the night we were withdrawn from 
our position and marched into the grove sur- 
rounding the Dunkard Church, where rations 
of beef and flour were issued to us, something 
which had not occurred for some time, having 
subsisted on corn and coffee. We were engaged 
in cooking our rations, when day began to dawn ; 
the musketry fire had been increasing for hours, 
and added to it was the war of cannon, all rap- 
idly drawing near our position. Shells were 
sweeping through the tree tops, hurling their 
limbs about us ; we were at once called to atten- 
tion, the troops in front of us consisting of Law- 
ton, Hays' and Trimble's brigades were over- 
powered. Gen. Walton and Lawton were wound- 
ed and most of the regimental commanders were 
killed or wounded and the men suffered terri- 
bly. Hood's Texas Brigade and Laws' Ala- 
bama Brigade relieved these troops ; confront- 
ing these two small brigades were two corps 
of the Federal army; we were in extreme peril 
and our position was absolutely terrible to con- 
template. General Hood fully realized the dan- 
gers which surrounded us and asked for help, 
but none could be spared. Gen. M. Laws with 
his division was to support us, but was slow in 
coming; in fact, did not get to us until after 
10 o'clock; we stood our ground, charged and 
counter-charged, the dead and wounded cov- 
ered the ground. We were fightinsj and dying 
like heroes. In the report of Gen. Hood, he 
says: 



"Here I witnessed the most terrible clash of 
arms by far that had occurred during the war. 
The two little giant brigades of my command 
wrestled with the mighty force, and althougli 
they had lost hundreds of their officers and 
men, they drove them from that position and 
forced them to abandon their guns on our left." 

In this memorable engagement the First 
Texas Regiment charged into the corn field and 
then held their position against ten times their 
number until two-thirds of them were dead or 
wounded; in fact, their loss in that battle was 
computed to be 85 per cent, of the regiment 
killed and wounded. 

These brave men were mowed down like the 
corn surrounding them ; without ammunition, 
they stubbornly fell back, still hurling defianci- 
at the enemy, meeting the liuzzas of the advanc- 
ing enemv with their blood-curdling rebel yell ; 
in my opinion, and I believe also of my com- 
rades, this was the most terrible and bloody bat- 
tle in which Hood's Brigade ever participated, 
considering numbers engaged. 

In front of the cornfield, where the First 
Texas was located was a lane. I think about 
fifty Texans, mostlv from the Fourth Texas, got 
into the lane to the left of the cornfield and 
also to the left of the First Texas ; we knelt and 
fired at the enemy, resting our guns on the fence 
until the barrels of our rifles would almost burn 
our hands, by our incessant firing. I frequently 
cast my eyes towards the cornfield, the position 
of the First Texas, which was 75 to 100 yards 
to my right; the smoke hanging like a pall over 
the com was so dense I could scarcely see any- 
thing. On one brief occasion I saw the frag- 
ments of the legs of one poor Texan's body fly- 
ing in the air, having been torn and dismem- 
bered by a shell. Before any of us in the lane 
realized it, we discovered the enemy in our 
rear, the cornfield having been given up by the 
First Texas after a most terrible and bloody 
resistance, having fought with ten times their 
own number. The only chance for escape, as I 
thought, was to make a run to the left down 
the lane in the direction of the Dunkard 
Church ; there were two boys near me and as I 
glanced down the line I saw the most of my 
comrades were either dead or wounded, and we 
decided to make the effort to escape. Running 
about a liundred yards, we ran into a New 
York regiment, I think the ,S3rd ; they were 
lying down. They rose and fired a volley into 
us, killing the two boys with me. Strange to say. 
not a bullet touched my flesh. After this regi- 
ment discovered I was a Texan, they seemed 
to be in a terrible rage. They said they had 
belonged to Franklin's division whom we had 
encountered at West Point on the 7th of May, 



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and repulsed with great loss to them, saying 
we had cut the throats of wounded prisoners 
who fell into our hands in that battle ; also sav- 
ing we had fought them with negroes, etc. All 
of this I denied, but to no good. They forced 
me into the front line of battle, under my most 
solemn protest. As they began the charge there 
was nothing in their immediate front to pre- 
vent their progress. After going several hun- 
dred yards, they arrived at a fence. About a 
hundred yards in front of the fence was a dense 
skirt of timber ; the Yankees halted at the fence 
and seemed to be in evident dismay. Many of 
them appeared to be under the influence of 
liquor, and wanted any pretext to kill me. In 
the timber everything appeared to be as quiet a? 
the grave. I turned to the Yankee who had me 
in special charge and asked his permission to lie 
down, to which he consented. I had noticed a 
flat rock as large as a barrel head. I took the rock 
as I lay down and placed it against my head : 
the Yankees near me asked me why I did that. 
In a loud tone of voice, so as many could hear 
me as possible. I said: '•'Boys, I know those 
men who are in that timber; in a few minutes 
there will be the awfulest wool-tearing right 
here the world ever witnessed." In about five 
minutes there was a flash and a roar of artillery 
and musketry. Coming out of the timber was 
a sheet of fire, gleaming bayonets and a most 
unearthly rebel yell. I myself felt the blood 
running through my veins, almost freezing. I 
presume my hair was standing straight up. My 
Yankee escort placed his musket against me and 
told me to run. We aU certainlv got up and 
got. As we ran back some distance, we all 
struck a fence and as we got on top of it there 
was an awful roar of artillery from the timber. 
As I flashed my eye along the fence, many men 
were falling forward and backward, dead or 
wounded. I here made an attempt to escape, 
but lost out. 

I was carried back to the rear some two miles, 
passing General Joe Hooker, having his boot-leg 
cut off, being wounded. I was turned over 
to a Major of cavalry, who had several com- 
panies. 

We were on the main road from the battle- 
field ; an endless procession of ambulances were 
loaded down with wounded and blood had sprin- 
kled the road as if a street sprinJcler had 
passed. While standing there I saw coming up 
the road from the battlefield some colors, with 
an escort. When they arrived the Major asked 
the Yankee with the colors where thev got 
there. He said in the cornfield. He turned to 
me and inquired if I knew the colors. I told him 
they belonged to the First Texas Regiment, re- 
marking at the time that where he got the flag 



there was many a dead Texan there. He said 
there were thirteen dead men lying on and 
around it when he foimd it, I asked him to 
hand it to me a moment, which he did. I took it 
in my hand, kissed it, and handed it back to 
him, tears blinding my eyes. Fortv-five years 
have passed since. I was young and impulsive 
then. Observing a short distance from us one 
of the main signal stations of the Yankee army, 
I asked permission of the ilajor to go to a fence 
where I could see the battlefield, remarking I 
had never enjoyed that privilege. He granted 
me permission on parole, asking me not to get 
near enough to hear anything said at the sig- 
nal corps. I sat on the fence and saw Bum- 
side's Corps as it crossed the Antietam, and 
formed in line of battle. The sun flashed from 
their muskets, and from the many musical in- 
struments of the bands of each. I had a splen- 
did view and it was a magnificent scene as that 
splendid corps was forming in battle array in 
the Antietam Valley: off in the distance was a 
thin line of Confederates to oppose their splen- 
did corps. Standing on a hill appeared a man, 
who seemed to be looking intently at the 
Yankees. I thought he was using glasses in 
his examinations. Mv heart sank. I thought 
all lost for the Confederacy. I saw dust arising 
over the treetops near the old Dunkard Church ; 
in a few moments a man dashed forward on 
horseback and in a swift gallop approached the 
lone man ; in a moment from out the timber ap- 
peared a long line of Confederates on the dou- 
ble quick. As they came forming in the right 
and left in line of battle, men and couriers rid- 
ing everywhere and placing themselves in line, 
a roar of artillerv- in rear of the Confederates as 
they began the advance, responded to by the 
Yankee artillery; shells were bursting every- 
where. The Confederates steadily advanced and 
hurled themselves upon Burnside's Corps, with 
the courage of despair. Quickly the scene was 
changed ; that splendid corps was hurled back on 
and over the Antietam River. 

That lone man I first saw I believe was Gen- 
eral Lee. The man who reached him on horse- 
back I think was Gen. A. P. Hill, fresh from 
Harpers Ferry, where he had finally closed up 
the surrender of that place and rapidly marched 
to Sharpsburg and arrived in time to save the 
Confederate army that day. I saw him lead 
his troops into the thickest of the fray with a 
dauntlesj courage. 

We had fought at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862 ; 
at Freeman's Ford. August 23 ; and second 
ilanassas. August 30; Boonesboro Gap, Sep- 
tember 14, and Sharpsburg September 16 and 
17. 1862, all under the eyes of General Lee and 
General Jackson. On the 2l8t of September, 



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109 



General Lee wrote the following letter, which 
will give some idea of his opinion of the Texans. 

Headquarters Army of Virginia, 

September 21, 1862. 
Gen. L. T. Wigfall : 

General — I have not heard from you with 
regard to the new Texas regiment which you 
promised to raise for the army. I need them 
very much. I rely upon those we have in all 
our tight places, and fear I have to call upon 



them too often. They have fought grandly and 
nobly, and we must have more of them. Please 
make every possible exertion to get them on for 
me. You must help us in this matter. With a 
few more regiments as Hood now has, as an 
example of daring and bravery, I could feel 
more confident of the campaign. 

Very respectfully yours, 

E. E. Lee, General. 

Above written four days after battle of 
Sharpsburg. 



HOW MONUMENT WAS PUSHED AFTER 
NAVASOTA REUNION. 



(Houston Chronicle.) 

As an evidence of what influence and energy 
can accomplish. Comrade Chilton lost no time 
in pushing monument work, as he stated it was 
his determination to erect the monument within 
two years. During October he electrified his 
friends and comrades with the following publi- 
cation that went beyond all precedents : 

JOHN H. KIRBY GIVES $4,000 TO HOOD's BRIGADE 
MONUMENT FUND. 

Two citizens of Texas, both honorary mem 
bers of Hood's Texas Brigade, one an old soldier 
and the other too young to take part in the war, 
but whose warmth of sentiment toward the fa- 
mous fighting organization is indicated by the 
size of his check, have contributed $5,000 to the 
Hood's Brigade monument fund. This is one- 
tenth of the amount of $50,000 which it has 
been decided to spend in the erection of a mon- 
ument which will rescue from oblivion the mem- 
ory of the greatest fighting organization that 
the world has ever known. 

The two men who have made this handsome 
donation are Major George W. Littlefield, Pres- 
ident of the American National Bank of Aus- 
tin, and Hon John H. Kirby, whose residence 
is in Houston, but whose magnificent benefac- 
tions have made him a citizen of all Texas. 
These gentlemen have subscribed to the monu- 
ment fund as follows : 

Major Littlefield, $1,000. 
John H. Kirby, $4,000. 

Major Littlefield's . donation was made sub- 
ject to a condition ; Mr. Kirby's subscription re- 
moved the condition. 

Major Littlefield wrote to Captain F. B. Chil- 
ton, President of the Monument Committee, 
that he would make a positive subscription of 



$500, and that if four men could be found in 
the State who would give $1,000 apiece, then he 
would make the subscription $1,000. 

Mr. Kirby took the place of the four men re- 
quired by Major Littlefield and himself sub- 
scribed the entire $4,000. Circumstances are 
fully set out in the correspondence given here- 
with. 

The first letter is from Captain F. B. Chilton 
to the Chronicle, the second is from Major Lit- 
tlefield to Captain Chilton and the third is from 
Mr. Kirby to the same gentleman. Here are the 
letters : 

CAPTAIN Chilton's letter. 

Houston, Texas, Oct. 13, 1907. 
To the Editor : 

Hood's Texas Brigade never faltered during 
the sixties, no matter how fearful the odds or 
dangerous the duty, but on Sunday when your 
paper is read throughout Texas and the inclosed 
letters are comprehended, every survivor of 
Hood's Texas Brigade will stand with bated 
breath, thankful heart and overflowing emo- 
tion while he offers a prayer of thanks to 
Almighty God that he created such men as 
George W. Littlefield of Terry's Texas Rangers 
and Hon. John H. Kirby, of all Texas. May God 
ever shower his choicest blessings on both, and 
may their pathway through life be one of such 
unalloyed peace and happiness as should be the 
portion of him whoever doeth good works in this 
life. With one voice Hood's Texas Brigade, in 
honor of their nearly four thousand dead heroes, 
prays God to forever bless Major Littlefield and 
Hon. John H. Kirby. Your paper will be fur- 
nished a full list of contributors, if possible, by 
next Sunday. 

F. B. Chilton, 
President Hood's Texas Brigade Monument 

Committee. 



no 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



MAJOR UTTLEFIELD S LETTER. 

Austin, Texas, Sept. 20, 1907. 
Hon. F. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas. 

Dear Sir : I have yours of the 19th and note 
contents. Yes, the Tern- Rangers and Hood's 
Brigade were soldiers endeared to each other by 
the trials and suffering of four years of war. 
llv heart loves the Confederate soldier. Hood's 
Brigade stands first vrith me. In my opinion, to 
them belongs more credit than can be claimed 
by any command that served during the war, 
and to their memory should be erected a grand 
monument. We who are left from that army 
owe it to Hood's Brigade, and I, as a citizen 
and Confederate soldier, feel it my duty to do 
what I can that Hood's Brigade may have a 
monument in memorv- of their gallantry and 
suffering endured for the cause we all loved so 
well. I will give $500 and pay same when you 
complete the foundation of such a monument as 
your committee may adopt, to be erected on the 
capitol grounds at Austin, or I will be one of 
five to give $1,000 to secure that monument and 
pay as above stated. People of the South should 
and must wake to the duty they owe the Confed- 
erate soldiers' memory. 

Wishing you success, and that your commit- 
tee mav soon begin work with funds sufficient to 
complete the monument, I am, yours most truly. 

George W. Littlefield. 



MR, KIEBT S letter. 

Houston, Texas, Oct. 10, 1907. 
Captain F. B. Chilton, 
My Dear Captain Chilton : 

Confirming our conversation today regarding 
the glorious work you have undertaken, I here- 
by subscribe the sum of $4,000 to your monu- 
ment fund. 

As long as men honor chivalric manhood, and 
value constitutional government, every patriotic 
Texan will esteem it a privilege to aid in erect- 
ing a monument to those gallant patriots who 
constituted Hood's Brigade in the Civil War. 
Thev need no monument to perpetuate them- 
selves in the hearts and affections of all the sons 
and daughters of Dixie, but nevertheless we 
honor ourselves in the effort to so honor them 
by this outward expression of the pride we, as 
Texan.=, feel in the memory of their courage and 
sacrifice. 

I make this subscription in honor of the brave 
men of East Texas, and especially of Tyler and 
adjoining counties, who formed part of this il- 
lustrious brigade. 

I trust you will have no serious difficulty in 
raising an ample fund. 

Very sincerely yours, 

John H. Kirbt. 



REUNION AT JEFFERSON A MONUMENT LOVE FEAST. 

CONTRACT LET. 



Up to reunion at Jefferson, Texas, June 25- 
27, 1909, Comrade Chilton did not let it be 
known what giant strides he had taken towards 
erection of monument, nor that he had per- 
fected even,- detail and was ready to let the con- 
tract. The reunion met ver\- blue as to monu- 
ment prospects and were thunderstruck when 
they found how Comrade Chilton had succeeded. 
It was supposed, and based on the Treasurer's 
report believed, that not more than $2,000 cash 
had been raised and that monument would likely 
not be seen by any living rr"»Tnber of Hood's 
Texas Brigade. To the contrary: 

JEFFERSON MINUTES READ AS FOLLOWS. 

Captain W. T. Hill, ex-President of Hood's 
Texas Brigade and officer in command of the 
Fifth Texas Eegiment at Appomattox, next 
Bpoke as to monument, and wound up by say- 
ing that in the hands of Comrade F. B. Chilton 
he felt sure the monument would be built. 



Comrade F. B. Chilton followed with a splen- 
did talk on monument and exhibited a design 
offered by McXeel Marble Company of Marietta, 
Ga.. which after considerable discussion and 
every feature having been fully explained by W. 
A. Florence, agen'. and representative of Mc- 
Xeel Marble Company, was fully accepted as 
monument to be erected to Hood's Texas Bri- 
gade on capitol grounds at Austin, and Presi- 
dent Chilton was unanimously authorized to 
close contract for erection — if he knew how to 
pay for same, since no other could see how it 
was possible. 

Amid immense applause Comrade Chilton 
read the following letter from Hon. John H. 
Kirbv, wherein he raises his subscription to 
monument from $4,000 to $5,000, which by 
rising vote was ordered printed in Hood's Texas 
Brigade History, now nearly ready for press, and 
same was ordered turned over to Gen. J. B. 
Policy, historian, for that purpose. 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



111 



A GLORIOUS LETTER FROM A GRAND 

MAN. 

Hon. John Henry Kirby's Eloquent Tribute to Hood's 
Texas Brigade. 

New York City, June 14, 1909. 
Captain F. B. Chilton, 

Pres. Hood's Brigade Monument Committee, 
Houston, Texas. 

My Dear Captain : — 

I am doing all I can to conclude my work 
here and get to Jefferson by the 2.5th in order 
to be present at the reunion of the brigade and 
meet and greet the scarred and grayed veterans 
who conferred upon me the highest honor of my 
life when by their generous courtesy they made 
me a comrade among them. I specially desired 
to be present when matters relating to the mon- 
ument were being considered. But today I am 
fearful that this wish cannot be gratified. I am 
engaged here upon a business matter of much 
consequence to Texas, and especially to South 
and East Texas, whose progress and prosperity 
will be given a decided impetus by an early con- 
summation of these plans. The work may not 
be concluded in time to enable me to reach Jef- 
ferson by the 2.5th. If I am not there, I wish you 
to answer roll call for me and tell my comrades 
that duty and not indifference compels my ab- 
sence. 

My very keenest interest is enlisted in the suc- 
cess of our plans for erecting the monument. To 
no nobler sentiment did men ever dedicate their 
hearts ; to no nobler work did the men of Texas 
ever devote their hands than in erecting upon 
the grounds of the capitol at Austin and as a 
silent sentinel at the State house of Imperial 
Texas some token to the memory of the illus- 
trious dead and some tribute to the heroism of 
the distinguished living who won immortal fame 
imder General Hood. The glory achieved by 
these sons of Dixie is a common heritage to all 
the people of Texas. No page in the history of 
the world is more inspiring than that which 
records the achievements, the sacrifices, the suf- 
ferings, the patriotism and the unconquerable 
spirit of these citizen soldiers. Nothing in the 
annals of this republic more forcefully exem- 
plifies the wisdom of its founders in resting its 
maintenance and its defense, not upon a stand- 
ing army, but upon the patriotism and courage 
of a citizen-soldiery than, in the language of 
General Lee, "regiments such as Hood now has." 

In erecting this monument we do not seek to 
rekindle the animosities of the Civil war. We 
mean not to detract from the honors won by 
those who wore the blue. We mean only a sim- 
ple tribute to the flower of Southern manhood ; 



an emblem of our veneration for deeds brave and 
heroic, for men of iron and blood, for men capa- 
ble of acts of incomparable dash and daring in 
battle, and of gentle, chivalrous courtesy in 
camp. We honor ourselves when we honor such 
men and we ennoble the ambitions and exalt the 
purposes of the youth of Texas, rich as our 
matchless state is in the martial valor and death- 
less glory of an Alamo and a San Jacinto, when 
we, by a suitable monument point the present 
and succeeding generations to the imperishable 
example of the matchless men composing Hood's 
Texas Brigade. 

With assurance of my sincere attachment, be- 
lieve me, your friend and comrade, 

Jno. H. Kieby. 



MR. KIRBY RAISES HIS 34,000 TO 25,000 AND 
MAKES MONUMENT A CERTAINTY. 

New York City, June 14, 1909. 
Captain F. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas. 

My Dear Captain : I have your special deliv- 
ery letter of the 8th. As I understand you, the 
funds so far secured for our Hood's Brigade 
monument are not quite sufficient for our pur- 
poses. I agree with you that this deficiency 
should be covered promptly to the end that there 
be no delay in proceeding with the work. If nec- 
essary to accomplish this end I will raise my 
contribution from $4,000 to $5,000. Your 
friend and comrade, Jno. H. Kirby. 



LETTER FROM GOV. HOKE SMITH, 
OF GEORGIA. 

Atlanta, Ga., June 9, 1909. 
Captain F. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas. 

Dear Sir: I understand that the McNeel 
Marble company is about to furnish designs for 
a monument which will be purchased on the 
25th of this month by yourself as president of 
Hood's Texas Brigade Monument Committee. 

I only write to say that I have known this 
company for a number of years and have seen 
much of their work. The officers of the com- 
pany are men of high character and their work 
gives universal satisfaction. I commend them to 
you most cordially. Very truly yours, 

Hoke Smith, 



LETTER FROM U. S. SENATOR, A. S. 
CLAY, OF GEORGIA. 

Marietta, Ga., June 15, 1909. 
Captain F. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas. 

Dear Sir: I am informed that the McNeel 
Marble company of Marietta, Ga., will submit 



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designs to you for a monument wliitli will be 
purchased on the 25th of this month by yourself 
as president of Hood's Texas Brigade Monu- 
ment Committee. 

The McNeel Marble company is a firm com- 
posed of three of the best business men of ]\[ari- 
etta, my home town, and I have known them 
personally for years. Their work has given com- 
plete satisfaction in this locality. Some time 
ago I bought a monument myself, and after 
looking over designs of other companies, I gave 
the contract to the McNeel Marble company, 
and their work was absolutely satisfactory and 
up-to-date. They have a complete plant in Ma- 
rietta and are capable of doing anything they 
might contract for. It is with pleasure that I 
recommend them. Yours truly, 

A. S. CL.4.Y, 



President Chilton tlien read a letter and offer 
from the McNeel Marble Company of Marietta, 
Ga., which fairly set the reunion on fire, and 
accepting its contents with hopes and hearts 
ablaze, they, by unanimous vote, ordered the let- 
ter likewise printed in Brigade History. 

Letter and proposal of McNeel Marble Com- 
pany to erect monument, as taken from Jeffer- 
son "minutes. Same was accepted by President 
Chilton and contract duly made. 

The McNeel Marble Co., 
Marietta, Ga., June 20, lOOO. 

Captain F. B. Chilton, 

President Hood's Texas Brigade Monument 
Committee, Jefferson, Te.xas. 

Dear Sir: 

Our two Mr. McNeels are natives of Brazoria 
County, Texas, and adopted sons of Georgia. 
The Eighteenth Georgia Eegiment was a })art of 
Hood's Texas Brigade, and with a desire to 
honor both the State of their nativity as well as 
that of adoption, and further to do honor to the 
Eighteenth Georgia Regiment, hereby make 
your Association this offer: 

We herewith submit to you the very best de- 
sign for a suitable monument for your noted 
brigade we can possibly get up. We will erect 
this monument on selected site, capitol grounds, 
Austin, Texas, within six or eight months from 
date of contract, complete in every particular, 
for the sum of $15,000, payable in cash on 
completion. We also hereby offer: If our de- 
sign, specifications and plans are accepted by 
your Association, that in behalf of the State of 
Georgia and in honor of the Eighteenth Georgia 
Regiment, we will donate $5,000 of the con- 



tract price for said monument and accept $10,- 
000 as full amount to be paid us in cash on com- 
pletion of monument. 

(Signed) McNeel Marble Company, 
By W. A. Florence, Agent 

At annual reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade 
Association at Jefferson, Texas, design, plans 
and specifications with above offer to donate 
$5,000 by McNeel Marble Company of Marietta, 
Ga., was submitted by their agent, W. A. Flor- 
ence, and same was accepted and F. B. Chilton, 
President of. Monument Committee, duly en- 
tered into contract with said McNeel Marble 
Company June 25th, 1909, in accordance with 
above offer, both contract and proposal being 
spread on minutes of Association. 

F. B. Chilton, 
President Hood's Texas Brigade Monument 

Committee. 

President Chilton then asked for monument 
subscriptions to complete the amount necessary 
to liquidate the contract made with the McNeel 
Marble Company of Marietta, Ga., and the fol- 
lowing cash subscriptions were received: 

J. W. Dallas, cash $5 00 

Mrs. Juliette Bush, cash 10 00 

R. W. Brahan, cash 5 00 

Cash 75 

James Sharp, cash 1 00 

R, M. Simmons, cash 1 00 

M. D. Kelley, cash 2 00 

J. W. Walling, cash 5 00 

J. C. Alvord, cash _ 2 00 

Colonel Jim Harding, cash 20 00 

Captain J. T. Hunter, cash 20 00 

Mrs. M. B. Walker, cash 5 00 

J. J. Evans, cash _ 5 00 

J. A. Bolton, cash 2 50 

W. T. Hill, cash 10 00 

J. J. Hail, cash 20 00 

Total cash $114 2 s 

Following call subscriptions : 

M. V. Smith _ $100 00 

Governor T. M. Campbell _ 100 00 

Captain E. K. Goree _ 250 00 

J. B. Policy 10 00 

Miss Doris Yoimg 25 00 

Dr. S. 0. Young 25 00 

J. W. Trowbridge 10 00 

Daviil Bronaugh 20 00 

Captain W. H.^ Gaston _ 100 00 

Dr. Sam Burroughs 25 00 

W. A. Florence 25 00 

J. C. Hill 25 00 

W. P. Johnson 5 00 

Total subscription $720 00 



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Making total cash and subscription at Jeffer- 
son $834.25. There still being a balance of 
$846.83 necessary to complete the desired 
amount. President Chilton offered to stand 
good for same, and by a rising vote the Associa- 
tion pledged itself to have said $846.83 soon in 
the treasury, and before same was due. 

Patriotic members of the Association wer^: 
not willing that Comrade Chilton should alone 
guarantee the deficit of $846.83 necessary to 
liquidate the monument contract and the fol- 
lowing pledged themselves for the amount. 

Minutes read : 

There being a shortage of $846.83 of the 
amount due to liquidate the contract for the 
moniunent and Captain Chilton having guaran- 
teed prompt settlement with the McNeel Mar- 
ble Company as soon as the contract is com- 
pleted, the following members of the Associa- 
tion rose to their feet and pledged themselves 
for prompt carrying out of the monument con- 
tract and that above shortage would be cov- 
ered when due: 

Captain W. H. Gaston, Dallas, Texas. 

General William E. Hamby, Austin, Texas. 

Colonel E. J. Harding, Jackson, Miss. 

Captain W. T. Hill, Maynard, Texas. 

J. C. Hill, Maynard, Texas. 

Judge J. B. Policy, Floresville, Texas. 

Dr. S. 0. Young, Galveston, Texas. 

Dr. Sam Burroughs, Buffalo, Texas. 

Captain J. T. Hunter, Bronte, Texas. 

Captain P. B. Chilton, Angleton, Texas. 

E. A. Brantley, Somerville, Texas. 

J. J. Hail, Corsicana, Texas. 

E. K. Goree, Huntsville, Texas. 

Captain George T. Todd, Jefferson, Texas. 

Dt. J. C. Loggins, Ennis, Texas. 

M. V. Smith, Luling, Texas. 

The above $846.83, as stated, was entire 
shortage of amount necessary to complete mon- 
ument contract in full, and the McNeel Mar- 
ble Company had agreed to accept Capt. Chil- 
ton as sole suretv for same, when above 15 
comrades, backed by the whole Association, 
Sound themselves to rai.se and have the amount 
ready by completion of contract. Through Gen- 
eral W. E. Hamby, Miss Katie Daffan, President 
of TJ. D. C, heard of the situation and under 
her persuasion the various chapters instituted 
"Tag Day for Hood's Texas Brigade Monu- 
ment Fund," and raised and remitted in full of 
whole deficit." 

Following resolution was offered bv Dr. S. 
0. Young of Galveston and carried by a unan- 
imous rising vote : 

"It is with feeling of justifiable pride that 
we, the members of Hood's Brigade Association, 



point to the fact tliat in a few brief months 
work has been accomplished by those having the 
proposed monument in hand, that has taken 
years for other associations to accomplish. We 
feel that tliis has been done through the untir- 
ing zeal and devotion of the committee having 
the matter in hand, and we congratulate our- 
selves that such wisdom was shown in selecting 
the members of the committee. 

Without the least intention of reflecting on 
the effort of any member of this committee, we 
still feel it our duty, in view of the magnificent 
work done by them, to select from that com- 
mittee two of its most brilliant workers, its 
President, Captain F. B. Chilton, and its Treas- 
urer, General W. R. Hamby, whose zeal, devo- 
tion and untiring energy has done more than 
all the other causes combined to make our mon- 
ument an assured fact. Therefore, be it 

Resolved, That, as an evidence of our grat- 
itude, we return thanks to them by a rising 
vote." 

(Jeneral W. E. Hamby rose to a privilege and 
disclaimed any of the honor, and stated that to 
Captain F. B. Chilton, President of the Monu- 
ment Committee, belonged all the credit, as he 
alone had begun, kept up and completed the 
monument work. 

President Chilton, in turn, said, as a matter 
of fact, much praise was due Captain W. T. Hill 
for both momiment and history zeal, and that 
he indeed had been ably helped by all his Mon- 
ument Committee. 

President Chilton stated that the securitv of 
the cash for liquidation of monument contract 
which he had closed with the McNeel Marble 
Company of Marietta, Ga., and which called for 
completion within six months — by January 1, 
1910— was a matter for consideration, and he 
offered a resolution that same be placed as a 
special trust fund in the Citizens Bank and 
Trust Company of Austin, Texas, subject to 
draft of the President of the Monument Com- 
mittee in liquidation of the monument contract. 
Same was unanimously carried. 

From the foregoing it will be seen that the 
monument contract was let and every cent of 
money provided for before the reunion closed at 
Jefferson, and the greatest victory ever obtained 
by Hood's Texas Brigade had been scored 
wherein a verv few survivors had stood up for 
the honor and glory of all and succeeded in 
gaining lasting recognition for their dead com- 
rades where all the world could see and read for 
all time to come. Resolutions were passed as to 
collections, soliciting more money, so as to meet 
all expen.ses incident to dedication. 



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MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS. 

JefFerson reunion minutes read as follows : 

Resolution was unanimous that every sub- 
scriber send in his subscription at once to Gen- 
eral William E. Hamby, Treasurer of the mon- 
ument fund, and by him to be deposited in the 
Citizens' Bank and Trust Company of Austin, 
Texas, subject to draft of the President of the 
committee to pay for the monument, and every- 
one was beseeched to stir himself for further 
subscriptions with which to build an iron fence 
around the monument and otherwise beautify 
the holy spot. General Hamby was instructed 
to exert himself at once in collecting all sub- 
scriptions and appealins; for more. 

Colonel R. J. Harding, Captain W. T. Hill, 
Captain W. H. Gaston, Captain J. T. Hunter, 
Captain George T. Todd, Captain A. C. Jones, 
General William R. Hamby, General J. B. Pol- 
ley, Dr. J. C. Loggins, E. K. Goree and others 
were selected as a committee to determine what 
should be inscribed on Hood's Texas Brigade 
monument and having assembled for that pur- 
pose, Captain Chilton, President of the ilonu- 
ment Committee, stated that he had signed the 
monument contract with the McNeel Marble 
Company of Marietta, Ga. ; that said monument 
was to be erected complete on the site at Austin, 
within the limit of eight months, and that the 
contract provided for such inscriptions as were 
to be immediately forwarded by the President. 
Captain Chilton then submitted to the commit- 
tee the following battles and inscriptions as be- 
ing appropriate, which, upon motion of Colonel 
Harding, were unanimously adopted as a whole : 

Colonel Harding furtlier said : "I think just 
one more inscription ought to be added, 'We did 
our level best, but failed.' Hon. Cone Johnson, 
an invited spectator, said, "Amen !" 

Battles and inscriptions are as follows, in or- 
der as written, and are same as inscribed on 
monument as it stands today at Austin : 

PRINCIPAL BATTLES. 

SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. 
ELTHAM'S LANDING. 
SEVEN PINES. 
GAINES' MILL. 
MALVERN HILL. 
FREEMAN'S FORD. 
THOROUGHFARE GAP. 
SECOND MANASSAS. 
BOONSBORO GAP. 
SHARPSBURG. 
FREDERICKSBURG. 
SIEGE OF SUFFOLK. 
GETTYSBURG. 



CHICKAMAUGA. 

SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE. 

THE WILDERNESS. 

SPOTTSYLVANIA. 

COLD HARBOR. 

BERMUDA HUNDRED FRONT. 

SIEGE OF PETERSBURG. 

WHITE OAK SWAMP. 

CHAFPIN'S FARM. 

DARBY TOWN ROAD. 

APPOMATTOX. 

There were many skirmishes of note and va- 
rious places where brigade was under heavy fire 
and lost men, but above were considered enough 
battle.-; to inscribe on monument. 

It was decided to use what was said of brigade 
by highest authority, and such as is borne out 
in all history, therefore following selected by 
Captain Chilton was unanimously indorsed as 
what should be inscribed on monument, and 
was so ordered : 

CROSSED BATTLE FLAGS. 

CROSSED SWORDS. 

CROSSED GUNS. 

HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, ARMY OF 

NORTHERN VIRGINIA. 
Confederate States of America, 186i to 1865. 

First Texas Regiment. 
Fourth Texas Regiment. 
Fifth Texas Regiment. 
Eighteenth Georgia Regiment. 
Third Arkansas Regiment. 
Hampton's (South Carolina) Legion. 

BRIGADE COMMANDERS. 

General John B. Hood. 
General Jerome B. Robertson. 
General John Gregg. 

Erected by Surviving Comrades 
AND Friends, A. D. 1910. 

"The troops of other states have their reputa- 
tion to gain ; the sons of the Alamo have their's 
to maintain." — President Jefferson Davis, C. 
S. A. 

"I need them very much, rely upon them in 
all our tight places and fear I have to call upon 




Monument to Hood's Texas Brigade on Capitol Grounds, Austin, Texas, Erected March, 1910. 



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them too often. They have fouglit grandly and 
nobly and we must have more of them." — Gen- 
eral Robert E. Lee, C. S. A. 

"Hood's Texas Brigade is always ready." 
(Hood's Texas Brigade at Darby Town Road.) 
— General Robert E. Lee, C. S. A. 

"They have shown on many battlefields their 
willingness to die for Dixie and have a right 
to wear on their banners the motto of Hamp- 
den : 'No steps backward.' " — President Jeffer- 
son Davis, C. S. A. 

"Their ragged clothes make no difference, the 
enemy never see their backs." — General Robert 
E. Lee, C. S. A. 

"Hood's Texas Brigade shall retain its orig- 
inal formation as long as there is a man left to 
wave its flag." — President Jefferson Davis, C. 
S. A. 

"All troops have failed to silence those bat- 
teries." "I have Texas troops that will try to 
do it." — (Hood's Texas Brigade at Gaines' 
Mill.) General John B. Hood, C. S. A., to Gen- 
eral Robert E. Lee. 

"They were soldiers indeed that carried 
those works." (Hood's Texas Brigade at Gaines' 
Mill.) — Stonewall Jackson, C. S. A. 

"They have slipped the bridle and straggled 
to the front." (Hood's Texas Brigade at Sec- 
ond Manassas.) — General John B. Hood, C. 
S.A. 

"My men are dying out yonder." (Hood's 
Texas Brigade at Sharpsburg.) — General John 
B. Hood, C. S. A. 

"Texans, I will lead this charge." — General 
Robert E. Lee at Wilderness. 

"General Lee to the rear; we won't go for- 
ward until you go back." (Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade at Wilderness.) 

"Texans, the eyes of General Lee are on you. 
Forward, Texas Brigade." — General John 
Gregg at Wilderness. 

"I saw Hood's Texas Brigade pierce the Fed- 
eral lines at Gaines' Mill ; I saw their magnifi- 
cent charge at Second Manassas. I witnessed 
the glory the brigade won at Sharpsburg ; I saw 
them go in the second time; I saw them almost 
annihilated by overwhelming numbers; I saw 
them broken and shattered, yet giving the rebel 
yell in defiance. They were under my eyes all 
the time." — General Stephen D. Lee, C. S. A. 



"Small as the Texas Brigade is, it cannot be 
spared. It contains some of the best troops in 
the army, and its loss would be severely felt." — 
General Robert E. Lee to President Jefferson 
Davis, February 25th, 1865. 

"No brigade has done nobler service or gained 
more honor for its State than Hood's Texas 
Brigade." — General Robert E. Lee to Secretary 
of War, January, 1865. 



The monument is to be erected on capitol 
grounds at Austin, Texas, within a limit of 
eight months, same to be unveiled May 7, 1910. 
Base of monument is 16 feet square. Bronze 
private 9 feet high. Monument 44 feet. And 
the Association rejoices over speedy consum- 
mation of its dearest hopes. 



DEFECTIVE STATUE DEFERS MONU- 
MENT DEDICATION. 

The erection by the McXeel Marble Company 
of the monument was perfect and on time, but 
on account of defects statue had to be rejected 
after having been placed on top of granite struc- 
ture, in consequence of which contemplated ded- 
ication on May 7th, 1910, had to be postponed. 
•It took some time to procure another statue, so 
dedication and unveiling did not take place un- 
til October 27th, 1910, on capitol grounds at 
Austin, Texas. 



MONUMENT COMMITTEE HOOD'S 
TEXAS BRIGADE. 

Captain F. B. Chilton, Co. H, Fourth Texa< 
Regiment, Houston, Texas, President. 

General Wm. R. Hamby, Co. B, Fourth Texas 
Regiment, Austin, Texas, Treasurer. 

Captain W. H. Gaston, Co. H, First Texas 
Regiment, Dallas, Texas. 

Captain W. T. Hill, Co. D, Fifth Texas Regi- 
ment, Maynard, Texas. 

Major Geo. W. Littlefield, Terry's Texas 
Rangers, Austin, Texas. 

Governor T. M. Campbell, Governor of Texas, 
Austin. 

Hon. John H. Kirby, Houston, Texas. 

Hon. Jno. G. Willacy, Corpus Christi, Texas. 



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LETTER OF GRATITUDE FROM PRESI- 
DENT CHIILTON OVER FINAL 
ERECTION AND DEDICATION 
OF MONUMENT. 



Houston, Texas, Nov. 34, 1910. 
To My Comrades of Hood's Texas Brigade : 

Reviewing the events of a month ago at Aus- 
tin, our blessed reunion, grand monument, 
completed rolls, and sjjlendid history, surely I 
would be less than liuman did I not, on this 
Thanksgiving day, all over our land, feel my 
own heart overflowing with a sense of God's 
goodness to my comrades and myself. We have 
much to rejoice over — for truly our victory has 
been great. It does not belong to you or me, 
for, indeed, we would have followed all our 
departed comrades and been forgotten had it 
depended on us to win the fight. We owe it to 
one who is too modest to claim or want any dis- 
tinction above the comrades he is proud to honor 
as his own. You must know that when I accept- 
ed the trust you confided in me, I safely 
thought I knew how to calculate on success. It 
was because I knew one man who rose as far 
above the ordinary as it is possible for mortal 
man to do. The rich are not usually to be de- 
pended on — outside of what concerns them. 
Their dollars are too often hoarded for busi- 
ness here — to be turned loose only when they 
can no longer control them. In this instance 
I had a friend of many years standing and who 
I am proud to say has not become ossified or 
allowed wealth, influence, position or power 
to separate him from true manhood or cause 
him to forget his fellow creatures. In every 
walk of life he has been true and never did he 
prove how grand he was than when he re- 
sponded to our appeal for money to build our 
monument. The money he gave us could not 
be mentioned in the same breath with the words 
he uttered and wrote nor with the true feeling 
that prompted his giving. Suffice to say he 
gave without question one-half of the entire 
cash cost of our grand monument and I can- 
not pass his generous act without saying some- 
thing of the man himself. His past reads a 
valuable lesson to all humanity and proves how 
true purpose, coupled with a correct life, and 
indomitable energy, can succeed in all it under- 
takes. 

I had occasion to write my friend Capt. F. 
A. Reichardt and spoke of what, and how, I 
felt towards the Hon. John Henry Kirby for his 
timely and glorious help in building our mon- 
ument and saving my reputation. Captain Rei- 



chardt's reply is so full and satisfactory to my 
heart and was such honor to the friend we all 
love that I presume to use it. 

To have and own such a comrade as Hon. 
Jolm H. Kirby is now among our proudest pos- 
sessions, and Hood's Texas Brigade will do him 
honor while they live and transmit to their de- 
scendants a hope and prayer that they will ever 
remember him who so helped them to honor 
their dear dead comrades through that beauti- 
ful monument at Austin. It will ever be our 
hope and desire that Comrade John Henry 
Kirby will never miss a single one of our re- 
unions in future. 

As ever your comrade, 

F. B. Chilton, 
President Hood's Texas Brigade Association. 



CAPT. REICHARDT'S LETTER. 

Houston, Texas, Nov. 18, 1910. 
Capt. F. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas. 

Dear Captain: I know how highly you re- 
gard our friend, Jno. H. Kirby, and that you 
are fully advised as to his successful business 
career, and that you believe him to be a man 
in whose veins flows the blood of human kind- 
ness to an extent remarkable for one who has 
accomplished such big things in the commer- 
cial world. But I feel that only those who have 
been his constant associates really know and 
can testify to the great trait in the character of 
this man which distinguishes him from all other 
men of my acquaintance. I have been his 
friend and close associate for many years and 
have therefore had many opportunities to ob- 
serve his superb unselfishness. His unflagging 
interest in his friends, marked by personal sac- 
rifices to promote their good; his remarkable 
love of his fellow-man shown in his constant ef- 
fort to improve their condition; his devotion 
to the public weal in disregard of his own per- 
sonal advancement or prosperity, are all based 
on that conspicuous unselfishness for which he 
is so loved. 

His life and his fortune are constantly de- 
voted to making men happier and better, and 
his aim is always to do for others with no 
thought of self. Men in despair go to him and 
leave with sunshine in their hearts. Men wiUa- 
out hope seek him and go away with renewed 
courage and a renewed ])urpose. Penniless men 
go to him and if he can't give aid himself he 
points a way to needed relief. 

He is indeed a marvel in his love for hu- 




HOX. JOHX H. KIRBY, HOUSTON, TEXAS 

PRESIDENT KIRBY LUMBER COMPANY 

Regent University of Texas. Honorary Comrade of Hood's Texas Brigade, 

Member of Hood's Texas Brigade Monument Committee 



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manity and his sj'mpathy with human frailties, 
as well as his admiration for genius and virtue. 
Very truly yours, 

F. A. Eeichardt. 

Surely none but one who knows could pen 
such words. I know all Captsun Eeichardt says 
to be so for have not we received wonderful and 
precious evidence of their truth. Having known 
our friend and comrade so long and well, I take 
more than ordinary pride in giving a brief 
sketch of his eventful and useful life, as follows : 

HON. JOHN HENRY KIRBY 

HOUSTON, TEXAS. 



President of Kirby Lumber Company, Houston, Te.xas. 
Honorary Member of Hood's Texas Brigade. Member 
Hood's Texas Brigade Monument Committee. Regent 
of University of Texas. 



John Henry Kieby was born on a little 
farm of 70 acres near Peachtree Village in the 
north end of Tyler county, Nov. 16, 1860. He 
was the youngest of seven children. 

His father, John Thomas Kirby, came to 
Texas from Mississippi in 1850. His grand- 
father, James Kirby, was born in Surrey coun- 
ty, North Carolina, in Colonial days, and his 
great-grandfather, Edmund Kirby, came to 
America from England. 

The subject of this sketch, John Henry, 
grew up in the neighborhood of Peachtree Vil- 
lage. He worked upon the farm and also in his 
father's blacksmith shop. Being the baby of 
the family he had the careful attention of his 
mother and his associates were principally his 
sisters. He early developed a studiousness that 
won the favor of the teachers of neighborhood 
schools. The country was sparsely settled and 
the average term of these schools did not ex- 
ceed six weeks in each year, but this gave him 
such a start tliat with the aid of hi.s mother and 
sisters and his own studious habits, he was a 
well-read boy at 16. At 19 he was taken in 
charge by Professor Frank P. Crow, who tutor- 
ed him for six months, after which he went to 
the High school at the county seat, Woodville. 

In his early youth the nearest postoffice was 
Moscow, in Polk county, a distance of fourteen 
miles from his father's farm. Later a postoffice 
was established at Peachtree Village under the 
name of "Chester," and the mail came weekly. 
He was then a lad of about 13. 

In those days the farm hands invariably took 
Saturday afternoon as a holiday. John Henry, 
as a hand upon the farm, was released by his 



father on such afternoons and he worked for 
neighboring farmers picking cotton and at other 
labor for his own account. The money thus 
earned he spent for books and for magazines 
and periodicals, which he received weekly at the 
village postoffice. These he read with much 
earnestness. 

His first employment other than on the farm 
or in the blacksmith shop or at like labor was 
to teach a neighborhood school for a term of 
two months in 1880. He then entered the em- 
ploy of the Lone Star Publishing Company as 
a book agent, his territory being Brazosand 
Robertson counties, which in the Autumn of 
1880 he worked with much diligence. 

In December, 1880, when he was 20 years 
old, he entered the sheriff's office at Woodville 
as the chief deputy and was placed in charge 
of the collection of taxes. In this position he 
saved his money and in 1882 entered the South- 
western University at Georgetown, Texas. 

On November 14, 1883, he married Miss 
Lelia Stewart, of Woodville. He became a stu- 
dent of law under S. Bronson Cooper at Wood- 
ville, but continued to perform the duties of 
tax collector as a means of support. 

In 1885 he was admitted to the Woodville 
bar as a lawyer and entered immediately upon 
the practice of his profession, winning success 
from the very start. 

In 1886 he was employed by Horatio R. 
Fletcher, of Boston, Mass., to look after some 
litigation in Tyler county. He was so successful 
with this litigation that he won the admiration 
of Mr. Fletcher and his associates. The result 
was that he influenced these Boston gentlemen 
to make investments in East Texas pine land. 
A company was organized with a capital of 
$400,000 with Mr. Kirby as manager. 

In 1890, in order to enjoy larger commercial 
advantages, he moved to Houston, where he has 
since resided. From the beginning of his as- 
sociation with the Boston capitalists in 1886 up 
to the present time he has induced large invest- 
ments of New England and New York money 
in Texas. Among his enterprises was the build- 
ing of a railroad from Beaumont to San Au- 
gustine through the heart of the timber terri- 
tory, which is now a part of the Santa Fe sys- 
tem. 

First and last, Mr. Kirby lias been influ- 
ential in bringing probably more than $100,- 
000,000 of Eastern capital" into Texas for the 
purpose of developing the natural wealth of the 
country and increasing the opportunities of his 
home people. 

He is reputed to have amassed a great for- 
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controversy with certain Wall Street financiers 
over the timber properties in Eastern Texas, 
with whom he had been so long associated, and 
during the years of litigation that followed his 
fortune was non-productive. The litigation was 
ultimately settled in accordance with his con- 
tentions and with satisfaction to all of the bona 
fide investors in the properties. 

Mr. Kirby is intensely Southern. His father 
was sheriff of Tyler county when the Civil war 
began and he resigned his office to devote his 
energies to the Confederacy. He offered himself 
for enlistment as a private in Company F of 
the First Texas Regiment, then part of Hood's 
Brigade, and of which regiment his friend, 
Philip Alexander Work, was Colonel, and of 
which company his friend, Sam A. Wilson, was 
Captain. Company F was organized at Wood- 
ville and was composed of the intimate per- 
sonal friends of the elder Kirby. At the time 
he resigned the office of sheriff the company 
was then in the Army of Northern Virginia, 
and instead of accepting his services he was de- 
tailed to other duties. 

Captain Henry S. Kirby, the uncle of the 
subject of this sketch, was in the Army of Tenn- 
essee, and James L. Kirby, the brother of the 



subject of this sketch, was a private in Captain 
Ben Ross' Company, stationed for most part on 
the Texas coast. 

John Henry was but four years old when the 
war closed, but he was the recipient of many 
kindnesses from the survivors of the Confeder- 
ate Army and especially of Company F, First 
Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, and Company 
K of the Fifth Texas Regiment. It was the 
memory of these great soldiers and the kind- 
ness they had done him in his youth, the en- 
couragement and support they had given him 
in his manhood, that influenced him to be so 
generous when the Brigade Association was 
striving to erect its monument. 

Governor Colquitt did his incoming adminis- 
tration the honor to name Mr. Kirby as one 
of the Regents of the University of Texas, 
which bears out the confidence Mr. Colquitt's 
friends had in the sound judgment he would 
manifest in the make-up of the men that would 
do most honor to the state and reflect greatest 
credit upon his administration. Hon. John H. 
Kirby is fully equipped for the exalted posi- 
tion and as a native son of Texas his love will 
be great for the continued upbuilding of the 
first University in the land. 



TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN JOHN M. PINCKNEY 

(COMPANY G. FOURTH TEXAS REGIMENT.) 

BY LELLA MAUDE LE.SLIE, BROOKSHIRE, TEXAS. 



John M. Pinckney is dead ! The words repeat 
themselves, monotonously beating against our 
quivering brains, clamoring for recognition. But 
even yet we are dazed and scarcely realize our 
irreparable loss. 

A great heart is stilled ! A nobler man, one 
controlled by more generous impulses, never 
breathed than our golden-hearted chieftain. He 
was true to the interests of his people, faithful 
to his friends and just to his enemies. He had 
an ever-ready ear for tales of woe and a heart 
for the poor. He was victorious over every ob- 
stacle, unconquered and unconquerable; in the 
zenith of his glory his star went out to reap- 
pear more gloriously beyond the sunset. His 
people admired him for his devotion to the right 
and unfaltering courage to stand by his con- 
victions, but greater than this was the love lav- 
ished upon him by little children, youth and 
aged people. 

"The bravest are the tenderest," and he was 
never too busy or tired to champion the cause 
of woman, and only shortly before the awful 



tragedy he said : "I would give my life for 
the women and children of Waller county." And 
that life so full of hope for our county, upon 
which rested so great responsibility, is it possi- 
ble — in the midst of whirling thoughts and 
heart-breaking memories — to realize that it is 
over? So filled with energy and indomitable 
will, it seemed for death to quiet his great heart 
with leaden kisses. "Our John," as we lovingly 
called him, is today beyond the reach of our 
tears and prayers, but across his shoulders our 
"Lord, God, laid the sword of his imperishable 
knighthood." 

His deeds will be kept green in our memories, 
his name carved high in the halls of fame, and 
when it is spoken at the last roll call, the re- 
sponse for him will come from his general, J. 
B. Hood— "Died at his post of du^." 

Moons wax and wane, the sun shines and the 
world moves on, but the man we love, our leader, 
our friend, our defender, lies enfolded in "God's 
white slumber." What a consolation it was to 
bereaved ones to look upon his still white face 



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and trace in every line the well remembered 
features, so calmly quiet and natural and though 
hot tears fell above the precious clay, we feel 
that with him, "All is well." 

"The loved and lost." Why do we call him lost ? 

Because we miss him from our onward road, 
God's unseen angel o'er our pathway crossed, 

Looked on us all, and, loving him the most 
Straightway relieved him of life's weary load. 

He is not lost ; he is within the door 
That shuts out loss and every hurtful thing, 

With angels bright and loved ones gone be- 
fore." 

And instead of sinking under our heartbreak, 
we should endeavor to do as we know would 
best please our dear friend, for — 
"There is an inward spiritual speech 

That greets us still, though mortal tongues 
be dust, 
It bids us do the work that he laid down. 

Take up the song where he broke off the 
strain; 
So journeying, till we reach the heavenly town 

Where our lost loved one will be found again." 

"Dear brave true heart ! You fell as falleth 
A star, when, from far spaces calleth 

God's voice that shakes the trembling spheres; 
Fell ? Nay ! That voice, like softest l)Te, 

Whispered in thy dreams: 'Come higher 
Above earth's sorrows, hopes and fears.' 

"Good-night! Good-bye! Above our sorrow, 
Comrade ! thine is a fair 'good-morrow,' 

In some far luminous world of light. 
Yet, take this farewell, love's last token 

We leave thee to thy rest unbroken, 

God have thee in His care. Good-night !" 



HON. JOHN PINCKNEY 

"Our John !" We held him as our own 
Against all others clamoring for the place 

So near our hearts; and though his fame is 
known 
Afar, we loved him first and best. His face 

True mirror of the loyal soul that's gone. 
Was an uplift to those faint-hearted grown. 

0, God ! We feel Thou hast forsaken us, 
As sheep without a leader wander on, 

So wander we in our heart-brokenness, 

And blindly grope through shadows to the 
dawn 

Which lies beyond the gloom of hopelessness, 
Tlie sunrise toward which duty bids us press. 

Let us be true and follow where he trod. 
Doing the things we know he'd have us do, 

And, mayhap, in the "far fair fields of God" 
A winged messenger will cleave the blue, 

Bearing to him the knowledge that we plod 
Along as best we know, submissive to our God. 



HE LIVED " BUT ONCE," HIS MOTTO. 

"I shall pass through 

This world but once. 

Any good therefore. 

That I can do 

Or kindness show 

To any human being. 

Let me do it now. 

Let me not defer 

Or neglect it, for I 

Shall not pass this way again." 



CAPTAIN F. B. CHILTON 

HIS LIFE WORK IS BUILDING A MONUMENT TO HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 



{Houston Chronicle, July 1908.) 
Capt. F. B. Chilton was born in Marion, 
Perry county, Ala., February 27, 1845. Six 
years later, in 1851, he came to Texas, and has 
since lived around within 50 miles of Houston, 
making his home within the Gulf Coast which 
is now being recognized as the most fertile and 
attractive in this section of the country. As 
a planter he has achieved success, having owned 
large plantations in Fort Bend and Brazoria 
counties. He was graduated in law directly after 
the war and has filled many civil and official 
positions. 



In all matters appertaining to the develop- 
ment of the state of his adoption he has been 
among the foremost. He was a member of all 
deep water conventions and took an active part 
in securing aid to better the condition of the 
inland water highways. In other ways, also, he 
assisted in the industrial development of Texas, 
being manager of State Immigration Bureau 
and General Manager of the Southern Inter- 
state Immigration Bureau, president of the Aus- 
tin Loan and Trust Company ; president of the 
Marlin Loan and Building Association ; ajjd has 
been honored with commissions for the State, 



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the principal being State Commissioner to 
Paris, France, and State Commissioner to the 
New Orleans and Chicago expositions. 

In matters of religion, Captain Chilton has 
been a Baptist for 52 years, and always a 
teacher, and sometimes superintendent of Sun- 
day schools. His politics has been Democratic 
for 52 years. 

Captain Chilton went to the war before he 
was 16 years of age as a member of Company 
H, Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's Texas Bri- 
gade, Army of Northern Virginia. He rose to 
the rank of Captain before he was 19 years of 
age. In one of the many fights in which he took 
part he was disabled, and was then placed on 
post duty on account of his wounds. He was 
chief ordnance officer of the State of Texas 
on the staff of General J. B. Eobertson of 
Hood's Texas Brigade when the war ended. 

Captain Chilton has a comfortable home in 
Houston, where he is happily and pleasantly 
ending his days among those he loves. His home 
and his wife's cordial hospitality are equally 
well known among his wide circle of friends, 
who know of the true-hearted Southern graces 
that are to be found there. His children and 
grandchildren admire the sturdy figure of their 
parent, who finds his lifework in building a 
suitable monument at Austin to his comrade? 
of Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Captain Chilton has just been re-elected 
president of the Hood's Texas Brigade Monu- 
ment Committee by the Association, which met 
in annual reunion at Jacksonville on June 25 



and 26. This committee is composed of some 
of the best men of Texas, representing millions 
of wealth. It is as follows: 

Captain F. B. Chilton, Angleton, president; 
General William E. Hamby, president of the 
Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Austin, sec- 
retary and treasurer; Capt. W. T. Hill, May- 
nard; Governor T. M. Campbell of Texas; 
Major George W. Littlefield, president of the 
American National bank, Austin; Hon. John 
H. Kirby, president of the Kirby Lumber Com- 
pany, Houston; Captain W. H. Gaston, presi- 
dent of the Gaston National bank, Dallas ; Sen- 
ator John G. Willacy, Corpus Christi. 

This committee hopes to unveil the monu- 
ment at Austin during the coming year. It will 
be one of the most memorable occasions the 
state capital has ever witnessed. Some of the 
most eloquent speakers of the nation are ex- 
pected to be present. 

After Hood's Brigade, which is to be immor- 
talized in stone and bronze, had returned from 
the war. Captain Chilton commanded the Cleve- 
land Rifles and the San Marcos Greys, and was 
one of the most prominent officers of the "Aid 
and Protection Society" in Fort Bend county 
during reconstruction daj'S. He is now living 
among the same people he has moved among 
for over half a century, and his whole life has 
been so unimpeachable that he holds to an add- 
ed degree the confidence and heartfelt friend- 
ship of all. The love and confidence of his old 
war comrades of Hood's Texas Brigade he 
coimts as the greatest boon this world can give 
him, and his devotion to them knows no bounds. 



CAPTAIN JAMES T. HUNTER 

COMPANY H, FOURTH TEXAS REGIMENT, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 



Captain J. T. Hunter is one of the most 
sterling Nature's noblemen this earth ever pro- 
duced. His has been a life without regret or 
reproach. The writer has known him for over 
fifty years and in all that time has never known 
of an act or heard a himian being say that 
James T. Hunter was not a man — among all 
men. Before 1861 he liad military experience 
during the Cortina war. In 1861 he raised first 
body of men from Walker county for Confed- 
erate service. He consolidated his men with 
other squads from Montgomery and Grimes 
counties and while he was the logical captain 
and could have been so elected, he gave way to 
P. P. Porter, from Montgomery county, as Cap- 
tain, and took the place of First Lieutenant. 
Capt. Porter was killed at Gaines' Mill, Va., 



and Lieut. Hunter became Captain. Outside of 
the time he was on General Hood's staff, and 
the many times his peculiar fitness for com- 
mand of advance pickets and scouts kept him 
away, he commanded Company H, Fourth 
Texas, up to Appomattox, where he surrender- 
ed with his Company and Regiment. Captain 
Hunter was never absent from duty except when 
twice wounded, sick, or on staff or detached 
service. He commanded the Fourth Texas 
Regiment at battle of Wilderness and was al- 
ways a brave, efficient officer. His early mili- 
tary life gave him a love for the service, and 
had the Confederacy been successful he would 
have continued a soldier. His bearing, in all 
walks of life has been manly and dignified and 
lie has a scorn for every kind of deceit. He re- 




CAPT. JAMES T. HUNTER, 
HOUSTON. TEXAS 

Company H., Fourth Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, 

Army of Northern Virginia, Ex-President of Hood's 

Texas Brigade Association. Commanded 

Fourth Texas Regiment at Wilderness 



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turned to Huntsville after the war and has been 
often honored with positions of honor and trust 
by his people. He was sheriff of his county 
for a long time. He is in his seventy-fifth year, 
but still as erect as an Indian, and as tasty and 
tidy in his dress and manners as a painstaking 
officer and soldier would never cease to be. 
He yet has every friend that ever knew him. 
He loves the Confederacy and is true to every 
principle of the past. He adores a good Con- 
federate soldier, loves all his comrades and nev- 



er misses a reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade. 
May he live many years yet to be an inspiration 
to all with whom he comes in contact and to 
help his few surviving comrades of Hood's 
Texas Brigade leave an indelible print behind 
them — as to what a true Confederate soldier 
was and is. God bless and keep you, my old 
comrade, in the bosom of His love and may your 
remaining j-ears of this life ever fall in pleas- 
ant places is the wish of all your comrades and 
friends. 



PARTIAL SKETCH OF MAJOR F. CHAS. HUME 

COMPANY D, FIFTH TEXAS REGIMENT. 



F. Charles Hume was born in Walker 
county, Texas, Februarj' 17, 1843, the son of 
John Hume, a native of Culpepj)er county, Vir- 
ginia, a planter, who immigrated to Texas in 
1839, auf' resided in Walker county until his 
death in _864. 

Mr. Hume received a liberal education. At 
the age of 18 he left his native state, immedi- 
ately after the first battle of Manassas, in a 
company of olunteers known as Company D, 
Fifth Texas tJegiment, organized in Virginia, 
and placed under the command of Colonel J. 
J. Archer of Maryland. This Kegiment, together 
with the First and Fourth Texas, at one time 
the Eighteenth Georgia, and subsequently the 
Third Arkansas, constituted the famous com- 
mand known in history as "Hood's Texas Bri- 
gade," of which General Louis T. Wigfall was 
the first and General John B. Hood the second 
commander. Its first winter was spent in the 
snows about Dumfries, on the Potomac. He 
participated in Johnson's celebrated retreat 
from the peninsula, and entered his first battle 
at Eltham's Landing (West Point), near the 
York river. He was in the battle of Seven 
Pines, and shortly afterward, near the same 
ground, was wounded in the right leg while 
participating in an assault on the enemy's works, 
led by Captain D. U. Barziza, in command of 
150 men chosen for the purpose from the three 
Texas Regiments. Confined in the hospital at 
Richmond by his wound until after McClellan 
had been defeated and driven to Harrison's 
Landing, he did not rejoin his regiment until 
the beginning of the lighter engagements that 
culminated in the second battle of Manassas. 
Seven flag bearers of the Fifth Regiment were 
wounded in the battle, Mr. Hume being the 
sixth, receiving a bullet in the left thigh. He 
was mentioned in complimentary terms in the 
official report of the battle made by the Colonel 



of the Regiment, J. B. Robertson, afterward 
commander of the Brigade. 

After the healing of his wound, Mr. Hume 
rejoined the army at Culpepper court house, 
and participated in the battle of Fredericks- 
burg, late in 1862. Shortly after this he was 
promoted from the ranks to a First Lieutenancy 
in the Confederate States army, and assigned 
to duty on the peninsula as adjutant of the 
Thirty-second battalion of Virginia cavalry. In 
this capacity he served until the battalion, with 
another, was merged into a regiment, when he 
was assigned to command a picked detail of 
scouts on the lower peninsula. With this com- 
mand Lieutenant Hume operated for several 
months near Williamsburg, experiencing all the 
perils of that peculiar service and becoming fa- 
miliar with its ceaseless ambuscades and sur- 
prises. 

General M. W. Gary of South Carolina in 
1864 assumed command of the cavalry in the 
peninsula, and attached Lieutenant Hume to 
liis staff. Shortly after this a bloody battle 
was fought at Riddles Shop, on the Charles City 
road, in which General Gary engaged troops 
under General Hancock, the latter having been 
sent to threaten Richmond to cover Grant's 
crossing to the south side of the James. In this 
action Lieutenant Hume had the honor of be- 
ing assigned on the field to the command of the 
Seventh South Carolina Regiment of cavalry. 
The last considerable battle in which he took 
))art was the engagement of Tilghman's Farm, 
on James river, the Confederate commander be- 
ing General Gary. Here he received his third 
and last wound, having been shot through the 
body. The Richmond papers published his 
name in the dead list of that action. When suf- 
ficiently recovered to travel he went to Texas 
on a furlough, reaching there in October, 1864. 
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J. G. Walker to inspect troops and departments 
about Tyler, which he did. Soon afterward he 
accepted an invitation from General A. P. 
Bagby to serve on his staff in Louisiana, and re- 
mained with that officer as assistant adjutant 
general with the rank of Major. 

When the great Civil war ended Major Hume 
began to prepare in earnest for the important 
battle of civil life. He completed his prepara- 
tions for the bar, and was admitted to practice 
by the district court of Walker county at Hunts- 
ville, in 1865^ and followed his calling there 
for about one year. From Huntsville he went 
to Galveston and rapidly took rank as an able 
lawyer. His patient industry, fidelity and at- 
tainments soon gave him prominence at a bar 
that has no superior in the State of Texas. He 
was admitted to practice in the supreme court 
in 1866, and in 1877 was enrolled as an attor- 
ney of the supreme court of the United States 
at Washington. 

In 1902 he removed from Galveston to Hous- 
ton, where, together with his family, he now 
resides. He is the senior member of the law 
firm of Hume, Robinson & Hume. 



As a guide by which each Company could 
perfect its roll. Comrade Chilton had follow- 
ing roll of Company H, Fourth Texas, pub- 
lished, and herewith re-submits same in order 
that all rolls may be completed and ready for 
delivery to the Association at the Cameron Re- 
union, and afterwards filed with Company H 
roll by tJie side of the record of the Alamo and 
battle of San Jacinto in State Librarian's of- 
fice at Austin. 

RECORD OF COMPANY H, FOURTH 

TEXAS REGLMENT, HOOD'S 

TEXAS BRIGADE, C. S. A. 

Company H, Fourth Texas, was organized at 
Red Top, now Prairie Plains, Grimes county, 
on May 7, 1861. 

Original roll is preserved in a galvanized 
iron cylinder supplied by Capt. Chilton, and 
inscribed as appears below. The correspondence 
which follows is a certified copy of the record 
from ,the office of the State Librarian, Austin, 
Texas, and is self-explanatory: — 

INSCRIPTIONS. 

Side and top of galvanized iron cylinder: 
"Muster roll of Company H, Fourth Texas 
Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of 
Northern Virginia, 1861 to 1865 — from the be- 
ginning to the end. A sacred relic." 

Around side of top : 

"What a tale of bravery, patriotism and death 



is here told. 'Pro patria.' 'Spectemes agendo.' 
'Post cineres gloria venit.' 'Spes tutissima 
coelis.' That is where the last roll call will find 
every Confederate soldier." 

Around side of box: 

"Muster roll of Company H, Fourth Texas 
Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of 
Northern Virginia. Copied by Thomas Sear- 
gent from original roll of 1861, and kept up 
during the war as well as it was possible then 
to do. This roll has been inspected, revised 
and made complete, and a full history of the 
company added through a committee selected 
from survivors of the original company. Said 
committee, composed of Hart T. Sapp and 
Frank B. Chilton, made the new roll and re- 
port thereon March 9, 1905, and same was ac- 
cepted and approved by Capt. James T. Hunter, 
surviving Captain of Company H, Fourth Texas 
Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of 
Northern Virginia. 

"This roll was sent to the Governor of Texas, 
S. W. T. Lanham, with request that he order 
same placed among State archives in Adjutant 
General's Department." 

After receipt and inspection of contents of 
the galvanized iron box which contained the 
roll, Governor Lanham decided that so glorious 
and precious a relic ought to be placed in the 
State Librarian's office beside the sacred record 
of the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto, 
therefore he directed Gen. Hulen, Adjutant 
General of Texas, to deliver the cylinder box 
that contained the roll of Company H, Fourth 
Texas Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, to 
Judge C. W. Raines, State Librarian, to be 

placed by him in its honored resting place. 

* * * 

This certifies that I have carefully compared 
the following forty-two pages, including this, 
with the originals on file among the archives 
of the State Librar}', and find them to be true 
and exact copies of the same. I further certify 
that the two foregoing pages are true and exact 
copies of the inscriptions on and around the 
cylinder box which contains the said original 
papers constituting the muster roll and notes 
of Company H, Fourth Texas Infantry, Hood's 
Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia — 1861- 
1865. C. W. Raines, 

Jan. 23, 1906. State Librarian. 

♦ ♦ * 

Houston, Tex., Mar. 9, 1905. 
Governor S. W. T. Lanham, 
Austin, Texas. 

Dear Sir: We hand you herewith a docu- 
ment that should produce within every breast 



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a feeling of reverence and pride, and particu- 
larly should it strike a tender chord in the 
bosom of every Texan and make proud the man 
who presides over the destinies of our great 
State as its worthy Governor. 

About forty-four years ago there went from 
Texas to Virginia several splendid companies 
of brave men, all of whom were willing to give 
their lives for a cause they deemed just and 
right, and which none of those who were left 
to witness its failure have ever been willing to 
acknowledge was wrong. 

Now, after forty years have elapsed since that 
struggle ended so disastrously for the South, 
we among the few survivors of Company H, 
Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, 
Army of Northern Virginia, place in your 
hands a copy of the original roll of said com- 
pany, together with a history of said company, 
and the fate of each member as near as it is 
possible to give. 

Said roll has been carefully inspected by a 
committee selected by Capt. J. T. Hunter, sur- 
viving Captain of Company H, and said com- 
mittee, composed of H. T. Sapp and F. B. Chil- 
ton (two of the original members of said com- 
pany), have made the roll as perfect and com- 
plete as possible. It is likely no such evidence 
of patriotism, bravery, devotion to duty and 
terrible mortality on the battlefield was ever 
left of record for rising generations to possess. 

Company H left Texas for Virginia in 1861 
with 105 men ; during the war there was added 
to original company thirty-eight recruits and 
two substitutes, making a total membership of 
145 members. 

Out of that number sixty-seven lost tlieir 
lives and forty-eight were wounded, many of 
them dying from their wounds. Both substitutes 
were killed. Thus it will be seen that nearly 
every member of the company was either killed 
or wounded — and some wounded many times. 

There were but few discharges or transfers 
and hardly a known, real desertion. The few 
classed as deserters joined other branches of the 
service. 



Company H surrendered at Appomattox with 
nine men — rank and file. 

Your Excellency is most respectfully asked 
by the few survivors of this grand old Texas 
Company to receive this roll with its accom- 
panying testimonials in the name of the State 
we all so much loved, and we further ask that 
you append thereto your order to the Adjutant 
General of Texas — under the great seal of the 
State — that he place the said roll of Company 
H, Fourth Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade, 
Army of Northern Virginia, on file in his of- 
fice, there to be kept as a sacred trust through 
all future generations. With much respect we 
have the honor to be your obedient servants. 

J. T. Hunter, 
Captain Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment. 

H. T. Sapp. 
First Seargeant Co. H, Fourtli Texas Ren-i merit. 

F. B. Chilton, 
Private Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment. 
All of Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of North- 
em Virginia. 

Roll of original members Company H, Fourth 
Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, Army of 
Northern Virginia — 

This roll was sent to the office of the Adju- 
tant General at Austin, Texas, to remain on 
file among State archives as a memorial to one 
of the grandest companies of brave men that 
ever went out to die for home, country and 
principle. The cause for which they fought 
failed, but the principle and evidence of their 
courage and devotion will live forever and go 
ringing through all the times and changes of 
coming ages. They were silenced only when 
there was hardly a man left to wave the tat- 
tered flag they loved so well. Today there are 
but few of that old company of Lee's army to 
remember and treasure the names and exploits 
of their dead comrades, but those few are deep- 
ly grateful for the following roll of the original 
company prepared and made complete and per- 
fect as possible by Hart T. Sapp and Frank B. 
Chilton, a special committee appointed by 
Capt. J. T. Hunter: 



ORIGINAL ROLL CO. H, FOURTH TEXAS REGIMENT. 



Captain P. P. Porter, killed at Gaines' Mill, 
1862. 

First Lieutenant James T. Hunter, survived. 

Second Lieutenant Tom M. Owens, killed at 
Gaines' Mill, 1862. 

Third Lieutenant Benton Randolph, disabled 
at Gaines' Mill, 1862; dead. 

First Sergeant C. E. Jones, killed at Manas- 
sas, 1862. 



Second Sergeant S. Y. Smith, put in substi- 
tute in 1862; dead. 

Third Sergeant J. S. Rudd, promoted to ar- 
tillery in 1861. 

Fourth Sergeant Nels A. Meyer, killed at 
Gaines' Mill. 

Fifth Sergeant J. W. Lawrence, missing. 

First Corporal H. T. Sapp, disabled at West 
Point in 1862. 



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Second Corporal Z. Landrum, disabled at 
Gettysburg, Pa. ; dead. 

Third Corporal G. L. P. Eeed, hospital stew- 
ard. 

Fourth Corporal A. C. Morris, died at Dum- 
fries, Va., 186-1. 

Mu^^i^•i:ln J. R. P. .lett. survived. 

Private Ben H. Allen, killed at Gaines' Mill. 
Va. 

Private B. F. Bullock, dead. 

Private 0. W. Bell, discharged, 1862; dead. 

Private Henry Barzo, killed at Gaines' Farm, 
Va. 

Private G. F. Bascom, died at Dumfries, Va.. 
1861. 

Private Thomas A. Brent, killed at Manas- 
sas, Va., 1862. 

Private Jacob Beck, died in 1864. 

Private E. W. Cartwright, killed at Holly 
Springs, Miss., 1861. 

Private James Cartwright, killed at Wilder- 
ness, Va., 1864. 

Private P. B. Chilton, discharged Sept. 15. 
1862, by order of Secretary of War. 

Private James Connelly, disabled at Gaines' 
Mill, 1862. 

Private W. E. Copeland, lost foot at Gaines' 
Mill, Va., 1862. 

Private C. M. Conroe. killed at Gaines' Mill, 
Va., 1862. 

Private R. C. Dawson, killed at Manassas, 
Va., 1862. 

Private Adam Damm, died at Richmond, 
Va., 1863. 

Private J. E. Edmison, died at Charlotts- 
ville, Va., 1862. 

Private W. S. Fisher, lost a foot at Gaines' 
Mill, Va., 1862; died. 

Private A. Faulkner, discharged in 1861 ; re- 
enlisted and killed at Sharpsburg, Miss., 1862. 

Private Howard Finley, promoted out of 
company in 1862 ; dead. 

Private D. D. Farrow, died at Dumfries, 
Va., 1861. 

Private Richard Fox, killed at Sharpsburg, 
1864. 

Private Green Griggs, disabled in Virginia 
in 1863; dead. 

Private J. H. Gillham, killed at Gaines' Mill, 
Va., 1862. 

Private J. H. Hall, died of wounds in Vir- 
ginia, 1864. 

Private L. B. Hatch, died at Dumfries, Ya., 
1861. 

Private C. S. Howard, died at Dumfries, 
Va., 1861. 

Private N. F. Howard, died at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., 1862. 



Private A. C. Holt, discharged in Virginia, 
1862; dead. 

Private A. Hahn, dead. 

Private J. C. Hopkins, died in Rock Island, 
111., 1864. 

Private D. Harrison, missing, 1863. 

Private M. C. Holmes, lost a leg at Manassas, 
Va., 1862 ; dead. 

Private G. W. Keyser, discharged in 1861; 
dead. 

Private G. W. Kipps, killed at Wilderness, 
Va., 1864. 

Private W. C. Kerr, survived ; dead. 

Private S. P. King, killed at Manassas, Va., 
1862. 

Private F. G. King, killed or captured. 

Private John Long, killed or captured. 

Private J. W. Lemon, transferred to cavalry 
in Virginia in 1864. 

Private W. J. Landrum, survived. 

Private James L. Lewis, killed at Manassas, 
Va., in 1862. 

Private Clint Lewis, killed at Gaines' Mill, 
Va., in 1862. 

Private William Loper, transferred to Com- 
pany G, Fourth Texas, and killed in Pennsyl- 
vania in 1863. 

Private J. M. Lackland, discharged in 1861 ; 
dead. 

Private W. L. Martin, killed at Gaines' Farm, 
Va., in 1862. 

Private L. A. Mathews, discharged in 1861 ; 
dead. 

Private A. J. McCowan, disabled in knee, 
Tennessee, in 1863; dead. 

Private Y. L. McDaniels, disabled in leg, 
Virginia, in 1864; dead. 

I*;i\ate il. F. Meyci's, survived; dead. 

Thomas G. May, survived. 

Private D. G. May, disabled in leg at Gaines' 
Farm, Va., in 1862 ; dead. 

Private W. C. May, survived. 

Private R. M. May, survived ; dead. 

Private William ]\Iilliken, discharged in 
1861; dead. 

Private William McGraw, discharged in 
1861 ; dead. 

Private D. E. Nevill, discharged in 1862; 
dead. 

Private T. T. M. Petty, died in East Ten- 
nessee in 1863. 

Private William Peacock, killed at Chicka- 
mauga, Tenn., in 1863. 

Private William Parker, killed at Sharps- 
burg, Md., 1862. 

Private G. A. Peaaley, died in Fredericks- 
burg, Va., 1862. 



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125 



Private J. P. Eogers, died in Richmond, 
Va., 1861. 

Private Ben Reynolds, killed at Gettysburg, 
Va., 1863. 

Private D. J. Randolph, discharged in 1861 ; 
dead. 

Private R. W. Ransom, killed at Manassas, 
Va., 1862. 

Private J. E. Seward, died at Dumfries, Va., 
1861. 



Private R. R. Stratton, disabled at Gaines' dead 



Private B. H. Cathey, died at Franklin, Va., 
in 1863. 

Private William Cude^ survived ; dead. 
Private L. C. Clepper, survived; dead. 
Private T. C. Dillard, survived; dead. 
Private B. C. Dowdey, disabled in leg in Vir- 
ginia in 1864; dead. 

Private G. W. Dale, survived, dead. 
Private A. H. Collier, musician, survived; 



Mill, 1863. 

Private J. M. Sanderlin, discharged in 1861 ; 
dead. 

Private Ed Savage, killed or captured on re- 
turn from Maryland. 

Private J. E. Stewart, lost a leg in Virginia 
in 1862; dead. 

Private R. H. Stewart, survived; dead. 

Private J. H. Sharp, killed at Petersburg, 
Va., in 1863. 

Private A. B. Seay, disabled in knee, Vir- 
. ginia, 1863; dead. 

Private Thomas Seargent, survived; dead. 

Private J. S. Spivey, survived; dead. 

Private Henry Travis, killed at Wilderness, 
Va., 1864. 

Private D. J. Tucker, survived; dead. 

Private R. J. Tedford, disabled in leg at 
Chickamauga, Tenn., 1863 ; dead. 

Private E. C. Thigpen, discharged in 1861. 

Private 6. C. Thigpen, discharged in 1861. 

Private Alex Taylor, survived ; dead. 

Private J. Thomas, survived. 

Private J. Taliaferro, disabled in arm in 
Pennsylvania, 1863. 

Private R. L. Tyler, killed at Gaines' Farm, 
Va., 1862. 

Private C. M. Waltrip, survived; dead. 

Private J. M. Wallace, discharged in 1861. 

Private William A. Watson, survived; dead. 

Private T. W. Wilcox, died at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., 1862. 

Private G. A. Wynne, killed at Sharpsburg, 
Md., 1863. 

Private J. A. Wynne, discharged in 1861; 
dead. 

Private T. 0. Wilkes, killed at Gaines' Mill, 
Va., 1863. 

Private F. H. Wade, transferred to artillery, 
Tennessee, 1863. 



Recruits received in 1863 : 

Private B. Anders, dead. 

Private W. L. B. Bryant, killed at Gaines' 
Mill, Va., 1862. 

Private L. C. Cartwright, lost arm in Vir- 
ginia in 1865; dead. 



Private Jack Ellis, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., 
in 1863. 

Private Sam W. Farrow, survived; dead. 
Private A. Faulkner, killed at Sharpsburg, 
Md., 1863. 

Private R. D. Gafford, died in Richmond, 
Va., in 1863. 

Private M. S. Jeffers, died in Virginia, 
1863. 

Private J. A. Kirby, killed at Chickamauga, 
Tenn., 1863. 

Private Henry Keyser, survived; dead. 
Private William Lewis, discharged in 1863. 
Private Louis Le Vanture, died in Virginia 
in 1864. 

Private Jacob I. Town, killed at Knoxville, 
Tenn., 1863. 

Private M. Leach, died in Danville, Va., 
1863. 

Private T. J. Meyers, died in Danville, Va., 
1863. 

Private T. R. Mitchell, missing in Maryland 
in 1863. 

Private J. Steussey, lost leg at Gaines' Mill, 
Va., 1863; dead. 

Private M. Steussey, lost arm at Gaines' Mill, 
Va., 1863; dead. 

Private John L Smith, disabled in Virginia 
in 1864. 

Private James B. Sergeant, disabled at 
Gaines' Mill, Va., 1863. 

Private C. B. Sanders, discharged in Virginia 
in 1863; dead. 

Private Bob Rankin, survived; dead. 
Private J. C. Talley, died at Danville, Va., 
1864. 

Private Reuben Talley, survived; dead. 

Private C. T. Taylor, disabled in foot in 
Virginia in 1863 ; dead. 

Private T. A. Wynne, survived; dead. 

Private S. W. Wynne, killed at Manassas. 
Va., 1863. 

Private B. B. Wilkes, transferred to navy 
in 1864. 



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Private H. C. Watson, killed at Manassas, 
Va., in 1862. 

Private R. Quigley, killed at Gaines' Farm, 
Va., 1862. 



Eecruits received in 1863 : 

Private Jim Conklin, killed at Wilderness, 
Va., in 1864. 

Private Ed Keeble, transferred to Company 
D, Fifth Texas, in Virginia, in 1864. 

Private H. T. Sapp, survived. 



Substitutes put in the company: 

Private John Smith, killed at Chickamauga, 

Tenn., 1863. 

Private John Stanfield, killed at Chickamau- 

ga, Tenn., 1863. 

* * * 

Letter of Captain J. T. Hunter to H. T. 
Sapp and Captain F. B. Chilton, requesting 
their inspection of and report on the above roll : 

Oakwoods, Texas, Jan. 9, 1905.— H. T. Sapp 
and Captain F. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas: 
Dear Comrades — I am in receipt of a letter of 
5th inst, also copy of Comrade Thomas Sear- 
gent's roll of Company H, Fourth Texas In- 
fantry, furnished the Adjutant General by 
Comrade James B. Seargent, and kindly fur- 
nished by him to myself. 

Comrade Seargent also sent me a copy and 
I have carefully compared the two, and as I 
find some discrepancies in the two, and some 
mistakes as to fate, wrong initials, etc., and I 
am feeling very anxious to have this roll as per- 
fect as possible so that each man, living and 
dead, shall have the honor due him, and none 
rest under the imputation of having "deserted" 
or been false to our colors in the cause we all 
loved so well unless it can be proven beyond 
doubt he was guilty. I think the most of those 
enumerated by Comrade Thomas Seargenfs 
roll as deserters, simply from overwork and ex- 
haustion fell on the march by the wayside and 
were captured by the enemy. Now, comrades, 
I request (the time has passed for me to give 
you orders) that you two go carefully over these 
rolls and make all corrections you know to be 
necessary, and where you need assistance I 
would refer you to B. F. Bullock, Rogers, Tex. ; 
William A. Watson, Thornton, Tex.; W. 
E. Copeland, Rockdale, and T. A. Wynne, 
and I hope you will be impressed with the fact 
that very few of us remain from whom to get 
information, and what is done toward perfect- 
ing this roll must be done soon. 

I feel under great obligation to Comrade 
Seargent for this roll, for it is much more per- 



fect than I ever expected to get. Now, com- 
rades, please attend to this request at your ear- 
liest convenience and let me hear from you. I 
send list of errors I note in the roll. 

J. T. Hunter, 
Captain Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment, 
Hood's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. 

* :*: 3ie 

Reply of H. T. Sapp and Captain F. B. Chil- 
ton to Captain J. T. Hunter: 

Houston, Tex., Feb. 12, 1905.— Captain J. 
T. Hunter, Surviving Captain Company H, 
Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade, Army of Northern Virginia, Oakwood, 
Tex. : Dear Captain and Comrade — We, the 
undersigned, in response to communication re- 
ceived from you under date of Jan. 9, 1905, re- 
questing that we inspect and correct, so far as 
in our power, the roll of Company H, Fourth 
Texas, now in the hands of the Adjutant Gen- 
eral of Texas, through our departed comrade, 
Thomas Seargent, beg to respond as follows: 
Appreciating the trust, we have carefully ex- 
amined the roll and suggest the following cor- 
rections, which, when indorsed or approved by 
you and placed on file with said original roll 
in office of Adjutant General of Texas at Aus- 
tin, will be about all we few survivors can do 
to perpetuate the memory of one of the most 
gallant companies that helped form the con- 
stellation of brave souls that early in 1861 
backed a principle with their blood and lives, 
and although the cause they loved went down 
in defeat, yet it was a glorious victory for both 
flag and principle, since there was hardly a man 
left to wave the flag all were so willing to die to 
protect. We can hardly express our gratitude 
that it has been possible through tlie foresight 
and devotion of our departed comrade, Thomas 
Seargent, to preserve to history so complete a 
roll of our original company and the remark- 
able correctness of the fate of most of our com- 
rades in arms that constituted said company. 
We all, both living and dead, are indebted to 
Comrade Thomas Seargent for his record so 
ably kept, which forty years after the struggle 
in which we were engaged leaves to posterity 
and coming generations a correct history of our 
noble company. 

We submit the following addenda to the orig- 
inal roll on file at Austin : 

Company H was organized at Red Top, 
Grimes County, Texas, May 7, 1861, and was 
made up of members from Montgomery, Grimes 
and Walker counties, electing its officers from 
each county as follows: Captain P. P. Porter, 
from Montgomery County; First Lieutenant, 
James T. Hunter, from Walker County; Sec- 



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127 



ond Lieutenant; Thomas M. Owens, from 
Grimes County; Third Lieutenant, Benton 
Randolph, from Walker County. 

Leaving Eed Top, our company, in connec- 
tion with other companies that had orders for 
Virginia, concentrated at Harrisburg, Texas, 
where they were regularly mustered into the 
Confederate service — "for the war" — by Major 
Earl Van Dora, and from whence they took up 
the march, September, 1861, for the seat of war 
in Virginia. Reaching Richmond, Va., they 
were (at Camp Texas, beyond the rockets on 
the York River Railway) formed with otlier 
Texas companies into the Fourth Texas Regi- 
ment, with John B. Hood as Colonel, John Mar- 
shall, Lieutenant Colonel, and Bradfute War- 
rick as Major, and brigaded with the First and 
Fifth Texas Regiments into a brigade known as 
Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Said brigade retained its original name and 
formation during the entire war, consisting of 
the First, Fourth and Fifth Texas Regiments, 
with addition of the Eighteenth Georgia and 
Third Arkansas at different intervals, also 
Hampton's Legion and Reiley's Battery. 

Captain P. P. Porter was killed while coii- 
manding Company H at Gaines' Mill, Va., 
June 27, 1862. 

First Lieutenant J. T. Hunter, after death 
of Captain Porter (at that time on staff of 
General Hood), returned to Company H and 
remained as its Captain up to the surrender at 
Appomattox, only missing being in command 
of the company on the day of surrender because 
he was on duty as one of the field officers. 

Second Lieutenant Tom Owens, while com- 
missary of the regiment, was killed at Gaines' 
Mill June 27, 1862. 

Third Lieutenant Benton Randolph was 
woxmded and permanently disabled in same bat- 
tle and was afterward appointed Judge Ad- 
vocate and so served until the end of the war. 

After the bloody experiences of Gaines' Mill, 
C. E. Jones was elected First Lieutenant, vice 
J. T. Hunter, promoted to Captain. 

M. C. Holmes was elected Second Lieuten- 
ant, vice Tom M. Owens, killed, and Ben Rey- 
nolds was elected Third Lieutenant, vice Ben- 
ton Randolph, disabled. 

Lieutenant C. E. Jones was killed at Manas- 
sas. Lieutenant M. C. Holmes lost his leg in 
same battle. Lieutenant Ben Reynolds was 
killed at Gettysburg. R. J. Tedford and J. Syd 
Spivey were elected Lieutenants, vice C. E. 
Jones, killed, and M. C. Holmes, disabled. 

Lieutenant R. J. Tedford was wounded and 
disabled at Chickamauga in 1863. 

Captain J. T. Hunter being on staff duty. 



Lieutenant J. Syd Spivey was in command of 
Company H at Appomattox when war ended. 
Captain Hunter was wounded twice. 

Taking the roll of Comrade Seargent, we beg 
to offer as corrections thereto: 

Where battles are mentioned, it should be 
"Gaines' Mill" instead of Gaines' Farm, the 
former having been adopted in history. 

Lieutenant C. E. Jones was killed at Manas- 
sas instead of Gaines' Mill. 

Z. Landrum was disabled at Gettysburg, not 
Gaines' Mill. 

E. W. Cartwright died from railroad acci- 
dent at Holly Springs, Miss., while en route to 
Virginia with company. 

F. B. Chilton, discharged by Secretary of 
War, Sept. 15, 1862, re-enlisted, was promoted 
to Lieutenancy and then to Captain, and served 
in many official capacities until disabled by 
wounds. He was Captain and chief ordnance 
officer with General J. B. Robertson (our old 
brigade commander) when the war ended. 

Howard Finley was appointed Quartermas- 
ter Seargent to Major Moses George, Brigade 
Quartermaster in 1862, and so remaiend until 
end of war. 

A. Hahn did not die in prison in 1863, but 
survived the war and was heard from in Geor- 
gia by Captain Hunter as late as 1902. 

G. W. Kipps was killed while in command 
of company at Wilderness. 

W. C. Kerr did not die in prison at Fort 
Delaware in 1864, but survived the war and 
died in Grimes County. 

F. G. King was a good soldier. His brother, 
Sam, was killed at Manassas, and after that F. 
G. was not the same man. He remained a good 
soldier and it is believed he was either cap- 
tured or killed by the wayside. 

J. W. Lemon left Company H at Petersburg, 
but afterward wrote Captain Hunter that he 
had joined a Virginia cavalry company. 

Ed Savage was most certainly killed or cap- 
tured on the return from Maryland. 

D. J. Tucker was appointed courier to Gen- 
eral Longstreet. 

J. Thomas (whose proper name was J. T. 
Nixon) was appointed wagonmaster by Gen- 
eral Hood, went to Tennessee with General 
Hood and served as wagonmaster to the end 
of the war. 

Ed Keeble was transferred to Company D, 
Fifth Texas, and not Company L 

The name of Robert Stratton does not ap- 
pear on the roll. He was one of our original 
members, was wounded at Gaines' Mill, and sur- 
vived the war. He was a true man. 

The name of Richard Fox, who was killed at 



128 HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



Sharpsburg in 1864, does not appear on the 
roll. He was a gallant soldier and his name is 
an omission. 

Where names of J. Steussey and il. Steus- 
sey (uncle and nephew) are mentioned on roll 
it should be J. Steussey lost a leg and M. Steus- 
sey an arm. Both survived the war and we be- 
lieve died in Montgomery County. 

H. T. Sapp was the first man wounded in 
Company H (in the head at West Point, El- 
tham's Landing, May 7, 1862), as well as first 
in brigade in battle. He was discharged on 
account of wounds in 1862, but rejoined the 
company in 1863. He was a paroled prisoner 
at surrender. 

L. C. Cartwright was the last man wounded 
in Company H during the war, losing an arm in 
1865. 

It is impossible to name among those marked 
"survived" the wounded ones, number of times 
wounded and class of wounds. We know of 
but very few who were not wounded, and some 
many times. Numbers of those marked wound- 
ed afterward died of their wounds, and so few 
are now living that minute particulars are hard 
to get. The casualty list of Hood's Texas 
Brigade (secured from Washington) will be 
carefully revised and published later. It will 
be deposited at Austin as a part of this roll, 
from which the wounded can easily be ascer- 
tained. 

Company H surrendered at Appomattox 
with nine men — rank and file — as follows: 
Commissioned and non-commissioned officers 
— Captain J. T. Hunter, First Lieutenant J. 
S. Spivev, Fourth Sergeant W. C. May, First 
Corporal' E. S. Stewart. Privates— T. C. Dil- 
lard, T. A. Wynne, B. M. May, H. Keyser, W. 
A. Watson. 

That there were even nine of Company H 
left to surrender was a miracle, as there was 
hardly one of the nine but had been wounded 
from two to three times, and were alive only 
because they could not be killed. 

Xow, dear Captain, we have complied with 
your request and filled the trust confided to us 
to the best of our belief, knowledge and ability, 
and if there is a motive on earth that would im- 
pel us to purest motives it would be in connec- 
tion with our love and duty to our dear com- 
rades — the dead and living heroes that consti- 
tuted Company II, Fourth Texas, of Hood's 
Brigade. Nearly forty-four years have elaj'sed 
since those stirring events of 1861, and while 
no man or set of men are infallible, yet we be- 
lieve we have, after due effort, succeeded in be- 
ing very nearly correct in all details — at least 
just to all without knowing neglect of any. The 



few of us that are yet living are fast whitening 
for the grave, and soon there will be nothing 
left of the Confederate soldier except the record 
of his deeds as it appears in history, and it 
should behoove us all to leave the page as clean 
and clear as possible for all coming ages. Con- 
scious of life well spent, where self ha.s ever 
been subordinate to principle and duty, you 
should be surrounded with every environment 
calculated to sweetly round off a noble man- 
hood, and that your declining years may be 
the happiest and most peaceful of all, is the 
prayer of your two faithful comrades here, and 
well wishers for all hereafter. 

H. T. Sapp, First Sergeant. 
F. B. Chilton, Private. 
Company H, Fourth Texas, Hood's Brigade, 
Army of Northern Virginia. 
* * * 

Indorsement of Captain J. T. Hunter, sur- 
viving Captain of Company H, Fourth Texas 
Regiment, to above roll, and corrections made 
thereto by H. T. Sapp and Captain F. B. Chil- 
ton : 

Oakwoods, Tex., March 9, 1905. — Having 
had returned to me under date of Feb. 12, 
1905, from Comrades H. T. Sapp and F. B. 
Chilton the above and foregoing roll and ad- 
denda thereto, as well as a list of corrections 
made by them at my request, and having care- 
fully examined both roll and all matters bear- 
ing thereon, I do conscientiously, in honor to 
the dead and justice to the living, indorse the 
said Thomas Seargent's roll with its addenda 
and correction as supplied by Comrades Sapp 
and Chilton, as being as perfect and complete 
as we are ever likely to obtain, and it is my 
honest belief that we have been exceedingly 
fortunate at this late day to be able to have and 
leave behind us so good a roll and record of our 
loved company. 

With a heart full of love for all my old com- 
rades and a certainty that the last one of us will 
soon join the heroes who have gone on before 
and that ere many days we shall all answer that 
roll call "beyond the river, and rest under the 
shade of the trees," where wars are no more, 
your old Captain remains yours in life and 
death. 

General John A. Hulen, Adjutant General 
of the State of Texas, is hereby requested to 
accept above roll of Company H, Fourth Texas 
Regiment, in the name of the great State of 
Texas, from which said company went, to which 
it l)elonged, and from which only death could 
sever its members. 

It is requested that the roll and inclosurea be 



A Genuine Soldier Boy of 1861 

16 Years Old 

{Taken in Riclimund, \'a., 1S61) 




F. B. CHILTON 

Private Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's Texas 

Brigade, Army Northern Virginia, Later 

Captain C. S. A. 



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129 



placed on file among the archives of the Mil- 
itary Department of our State Government, 
and there securely kept for all time as a me- 
morial to as gallant a band of men as the Con- 
federacy had. Respectfully, 

J. T. Hunter, 
Surviving Captain Company H, Fourth Texas 

Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of 

Northern Virginia. 

* « « 

State of Texas, County of Harris: Before 
me, Alf H. H. Tolar, a Notary Public in and 
for said coimty, this day personally appeared H. 
T. Sapp and F. B. Chilton, both of whom are 
well known to me, and acknowledged to me, in 
my official capacity, that they had in good faith 
signed their respective names to this document 
on page 17 and page C. Given iinder my hand 
and seal of office this 9th day of March, A. D. 
1905. 

(ss) Alf H. H. Tolar, 

Notary Public for Harris Coimty, Texas. 

* * * 

State of Texas, County of Harris — Before 
me, Alf H. H. Tolar, a notary public in and 
for said county, this day personally appeared 
Captain J. T. Hunter, known to me, and ac- 
knowledged to me, in my official capacity, that 
he had in good faith signed his name to this 
document on pages 8 and 18 and page C. Given 
under my hand and seal of office this 7th day of 
April, a". D. 1905. 

(ss) Alf H. H. Tolar, 

Notary Public for Harris County, Texas. 

* * * 

Adjutant General's Office, State of Texas. — 
Austin, Tex., May 8, 1905. — Captain Frank 
B. Chilton, Houston, Tex.: Donr Sir — By the 
direction of Governor Lanham I have the honor 
to acknowledge receipt of the muster roll and 
historic data relating to the part enacted on 
many fields of battle by Company H of the 
Fourth Texas, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of 
Northern Virginia, as copied by Thomas Sear- 
gent, a member of the company, from the orig- 
inal roll of 1861, revised by a committee com- 
posed of Hart T. Sapp and Frank B. Chilton, 
and approved and accepted by Captain James 
T. Hunter, surviving Captain of Company H, 
with a full history of the company added by 
said committee. 

It is but fitting that the record of a com- 
pany, a unit of one of the immortal regiments 
from this State in 1861 to 1865, whose career 
shows all the heroism ever displayed by men in 
a bloody contest for liberty and the right, should 
become one of the sacred relics of Texas, and 
should be so kept that her citizens today and 



forever, may understand the indomitable cour- 
age of the soldier from the South in 1861. This 
would suggest that you permit me to file the 
muster roll and its accompanying papers in the 
office of the Librarian of Texas, to be placed 
with the relics of the Alamo and San Jacinto. 

Assuring you that Governor Lanham highly 
values this relic, I have the honor to be, very 
truly yours, 

John A. Hulen, Adjutant General. 

* * * 

Houston, Tex., May 16, 1905.— General 
John A. Hulen, Adjutant General of Texas, 
Austin, Tex. : Dear Sir — I have the honor to 
acknowledge receipt of your valued favor of the 
8th instant, same having been written by di- 
rection of Governor Lanham in reference to ac- 
ceptance and designation of muster roll and his- 
tory of Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment, 
Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia. 

The kind words of Governor Lanham and 
yourself are much appreciated, and the com- 
mittee accepts suggestions made aJid fully con- 
curs as to the office of the Librarian of Texas 
being the most suitable place to file said roll 
and accompanying papers. There place them 
beside the records of the Alamo and San Ja- 
cinto to forever be a source of pride to every 
true man — no matter where he hails from — in 
doing of which you have our approval and 
thanks. Most respectfully yours. 

F. B. Chilton, for Committee. 

* * * 

Adjutant General's Office, State of Texas, 
Austin, Tex., May 26, 1905.— Captain F. B. 
Chilton, Houston, Tex. : Dear Sir — I am in re- 
ceipt of your letter acknowledging mine of the 
8th instant, and will take pleasure in filing the 
rolls and papers of Company H, Fourth Texas 
Infantry, in the office of the State Librarian of 
Texas. Judge Raines, the Librarian, has been 
spoken to, and assures me that they will be 
filed along with the records of the Alamo and 
San Jacinto. Very respectfully yours, 

John A. Hulen, Adjutant (Jeneral. 

4> « * 

Adjutant General's Office, State of Texas, 
Austin, Tex., June 8, 1905.— Judge C. W. 
Raines, State Librarian, Capitol: Dear Sir— 
Bv direction of a committee of Hood's Texas 
Brigade Association, composed of Hart T. Sapp 
and Frank B. Chilton, I have the pleasure to 
herewith transmit to vou a corrected muster roll 
of Company H, Fourth Texas Infantry, Hood's 
Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861- 
ISGo, for file as an archive of your library. 



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This roll was accepted and approved by Cap- 
tain James T. Hunter, surviving Captain, and 
contains a complete history of the company. 
Yours respectfully, 
John A. Hulen, Adjutant General. 
* * * 

Department of Agi-iculture. Insurance, Sta- 
tistics and History, State of Texas, Austin, 
June 8, 1905.— General John A. Hulen, Adju- 
tant General, State of Texas : Dear Sir — I have 
the honor to acknowledge the receipt from Cap- 
tain Phelps of your department today of the 
corrected muster roll of Company H, Fourth 
Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade, Array of 
Northern Virginia, 18G1-1865, for file in the 
archives of the State Library. 

I assure you, sir, that I receive these pre- 
cious memorials of Texas valor with inexpress- 
ible pleasure, and that I will file them in this 
library with the sacred records of the Alamo 
and San Jacinto for an inspiration to patriot- 
ism for all time. Yours respectfully, 

C. W. Raines. State Librarian. 



Austin, Tex., May 22, 1906.— Captain F. B. 
Chilton, Houston, Tex. Dear Sir — I beg to ac- 
knowledge the receipt of other valuable histor- 
ical matter relating to Hood's Texas Brigade. 
If all the old Confederates showed half the 
interest in the history of their particular com- 
mands as you do, our Confederate history would 
be well preserved. The last documents received 
were placed in the metal case with the others 
you sent, according to your wishes. Thanking 
you heartily for your zeal in the great cause 
of preserving our glorious Confederate history, 
I am, yours truly, 

C. W. Raines, State Librarian. 
* * * 

May 24th, 1873. 
Hood's Texas Brigade Association. — This is 
to certify that Frank B. Chilton is a member of 
Hood's Texa.s Brigade Association, he having 
been a member of Company H, Fourth Texas 
Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of 
Xorthern Virginia. 

RoBT. Burns, 
Secretary Hood's Texas Brigade Association. 



TRIBUTE FROM PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS TO 

HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 

The President of the Confederacy Wrote Letter to Captain F. B. Chilton. 

Motto of Hampden. 



Houston, Texas, August 13. 
To the Editor of the Chronicle : 

As a Texas boy a long way from home and 
poor prospects of ever getting back, I was al- 
ways a welcome visitor to the War Department 
and White House at Richmond, Virginia, in 
1861. I had the further prestige of an uncle, 
Hon. Wm. P. Chilton, member of Congress 
from Alabama and my kinsman, General R. H. 
Chilton, at that time Assistant Adjutant Gen- 
eral of the Confederacy, but subsequently chief 
of General Lee's staff. I also knew Judge Rea- 
gan of the cabinet and General Wigfall of the 
Senate, as well as all the Texas Congressmen, 
all of which coupled with my extreme youth 
gave me many privileges among the official Con- 
federacy. It was my honor to often meet, and 
as a boy, know quite well the President's family 
and my dear privilege after the war to receive 
letters at various times from members of the 
family and it is the la.=t letter received from our 
beloved President that I herewith enclose and 
submit to the Chronicle and ask its solution of 
a paragraph contained therein. Directly after 



adjournment of the Southern Interstate Immi- 
gration Convention that met in the old historic 
capitol building at Montgomery, Alabama, in 
1887, and where by the delegates of 13 Southern 
States, I was elected the general manager of in- 
terests of the association there formed. I sent 
Mr. Davis the minutes of said convention as a 
matter of interest to him. Neither war or ru- 
mors of war was in my mind, nor did I mention 
the brigade or anything connected with the Con- 
federacy — but the noble soul and master mind 
of Mr. Davis traveled back and connecting me 
with Hood's Brigade in his reply to my letter 
uses this language : 

"The gallant and distinguished organization. 
Hood's Texas Brigade, to which you belonged, 
showed on many battlefields its willingness to 
'live and die for Dixie,' and might have in- 
scribed on its banner the motto of Hampden." 
Hood's Texas Brigade history is now being 
written by General J. B. Policy, brigade his- 
torian, of Floresville, Texas, and inclosed let- 
ter of President Davis will be used therein, and 
as there has been differences as to the "motto of 
Hampden," your Tuesday issue of the Chronicle 



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is most respectfully requested to tell us what 
the motto was that President Davis referred to. 

I inclose both better of Mr. Davis and en- 
velope that covered same. Please handle care- 
fully. Copy exact and return safely to me, 
giving us a solution we can rely on. As the lan- 
guage comes direct from the President of the 
Confederacy, and is addressed to troops that 
were directly under his eye throughout the 
whole four years' struggle, it will not only ap- 
pear in our history, but in substance may be 
inscribed on the monument we are soon to erect. 

F. B. Chilton, 
President Hood's Texas Brigade Monument 

Committee. 

Letter of President Davis to Captain Chilton, 
as copied from original and carefully compared 
is as follows: 

Beauvoir, Miss., April 6, 1889. — Captain F. 
B. Chilton, Austin, Texas. — My Dear Sir: I 
am much obliged to you, both for your kind con- 
sideration and for the very interesting pam- 
phlets you sent to me after the meeting of the 
interstate immigration convention. The gal- 
lant and distinguished organization, Hood's 
Texas Brigade, to which you belonged, showed 
on many battlefields its willingness "to live and 
die for Dixie," and might have inscribed upon 
their banner the motto of Hampden. 

With best wishes for you and all the survivors 
of Hood's Brigade, I am. 

Fraternally, 

Jefferson Davis. 



WHAT WAS MOTTO OF HAMPDEN .> 

Quotation From Jefferson Davis Starts the Query. 

On page 8 of the second section of The Sun- 
day Chronicle there is given a letter from Jef- 
ferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, to 
Captain F. B. Chilton, in which Mr. Davis re- 
fers to the members of Hood's Texas Brigade 
and says they might have inscribed upon their 
banners the motto of Hampden. In republish- 
ing the letter Captain Chilton has asked The 
Chronicle to publish the motto of Hampden. 
Research into English history has thus far fail- 
ed to disclose it. 

John Hampden was a Yorkshire gentleman, 
who with John Pym, from Gloustershire, re- 
fused to pay the second ship tax levied by 
Charles the First of England in his terrific 
fight to secure funds to run the government 
without making application to parliament. 

The first ship levy made by Noy's on the 
coast cities was paid. Then the inland country 
was asked to give a subsidy in money in place 
of furnishing a certain number of ships. Hamp- 
den's share of the tax was only 20 shillings but 
he refused to pay it, claiming that a great prin- 



ciple was at stake, the principle being a denial 
of the right of the king to levy taxes without 
the consent of parliament. Hampden and Pym 
were tried, arrested and convicted, but of the 
eleven judges trying the case five dissented and 
this dissent was supposed to be a great moral 
victory for tlie opponents of the ship tax money. 

On account of the notoriety thus gained 
Hampden was sent to parliament where he was 
a consistent opponent of the king. He and Pym 
were two of the five men whom Charles went 
in person to expel from parliament but who 
had obtained warning and were not present at 
the time of his visit. \\Tien war broke out 
Hampden was made general in the parliamen- 
tary army and commanded the cavalry of a por- 
tion of it. He was wounded in an early en- 
gagement with the cavalry of the king led by 
Prince Rupert of the Palatinate and his forces 
were routed and he himself died from the 
wound thus received. His name is found in the 
most solemnly beautiful poem ever penned in 
the English language, Graj^'s Elegy, in the 
line — 

"Some village Hampden tliat with dauntless 
breast the little tyrant of his fields withstood." 

Who knows the motto to which President 
Davis referred? 

How the great soul of the president of the 
Confederacy must have yearned and his heart 
gone forth to the old brigade when a quarter 
of a century after the war was over the name 
of Captain Chilton as one of the boy members 
he so well knew, brought the noble old brigade 
before him — as it were in reality — and he once 
more had his whole being stirred as in days of 
yore, when Lee listened for their terrible guns 
and death-dealing rebel yell at Gaines' Mill 
and relied on them to the death at Wilderness 
and how he as president had refused to have 
a single regiment of the brigade consolidated 
with other troops, even though they had but a 
corporal's guard left to each regiment, saying: 
"The Texas Brigade shall so remain until the 
last man has gone." He seems to have entirely 
ignored the substance of Captain Chilton's let- 
ter, but seeks at once — as he had often done in 
the past — to pay the highest tribute at his com- 
mand to Hood's Texas Brigade, while sending 
his love to every survivor. 

MOTTO OF HAMPDEN. 

"No Steps Backward" Was What Davis Said 
of Hood's Brigade. 

To the Editor of The Chronicle: 

In answer to an inquiry contained in your 
issue of Sunday, will say: — 

When King Charles I, by violence and per- 



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fidy, by tyranny and folly, alienated his par- 
liament and the greater part of his people 
from all fealty to his person, and parliament, 
in self-preservation, had recourse to the sword 
against their foresworn and faithless king, John 
Hampden took a colonel's commission in the 
parliamentary army, and raised and equipped 
a regiment at his own expense. 

His men were known by their green uniform 
and standard, which bore on one side the words, 
"God With Us," and on the other the motto, 
of Hampden, "Vestigia nulla retrosum." (No 
steps backward.) This is the motto Jefferson 
Davis in his letter to Capt. F. B. Chilton says 
might have been inscribed upon the banners of 
Hood's Texas Brigade. Respectfully, 

John A. Kirlicks. 

Houston, Texas, August 19. 



PRESUMED LIVING OF TEXAS REGI- 
MENTS OF HOOD'S TEXAS 
BRIGADE. 

The following is list of every living man of 
the three Texas regiments of Hood's Texas Bri- 
gade, so far as probable at this date, January 1, 
1911: 

Company A, First Texas Regiment. 

J. C. Alford, Daingerfield, Texas. 
David Bronaugh, Whitewright, Texas. 
Dr. James M. Blalock, Thomaston, Ga. 
G. W. Hudson, Jefferson, Texas. 
March Jones, Jefferson, Texas. 
Capt. Geo. T. Todd, Jefferson, Texas. 
L. B. Todd, Jefferson, Texas. 

Company B, First Texas Regiment. 

Colonel R. J. Harding. Jackson, Miss. 
W. B. Shotwell, Moscow, Texas. 

Company C, First Texas Regiment. 

John 0. Byrne, Austin, Texas. 
T. J. Calhoun, Austin, Texas. 
Solomon Lassiter, Tyler, Texas. 
Polk Neul, Brandon, Texas. 
James Williams, Coleman, Texas. 

Company D, First Texas Regiment. 

Dan Bartlett, Linden, Texas. 

C. Curtwright, Cusseta, Texas. 

E. Frazier, Linden, Texas. 

Major A. G. Clopton, Jefferson, Texas. 

Jack Glaze, Linden, Texas. 

A. Miles, Atlanta, Texas. 

Hal E. Moss, Bloomburg, Texas. 

John Henderson, Cusseta, Texas. 

Dr. A. C. Oliver, Douglassville, Ga. 

W. A. T. Oliver, Gadsden, Ala. 



S. W. Oliver, Weatherford, Texas. 
J. Pink O'Rear, Atlanta, Texas. 
J. C. Robinson, Bryan Mill, Texas. 

Company E, First Texas Regiment. 

T. H. Langley, Marshall, Texas. 
W. D. Haynes, Ennis, Texas. 
S. F. Perry, Marshall, Texas. 
A. F. Wiggs, Bonham, Texas. 

Company F, First Texas Regiment. 

U. M. Gilder, Rockport, Texas. 

A. C. Sims, Jasper, Texas. 

J. M. Stallcup, Austin, Texas (Home). 
Col. A. P. Work, Kountze, Texas. 

Company G, First Texas Regiment. 

Dr. S. R. Burroughs, Buffalo, Texas. 
Sebe. Blackshear, Rio Vista, Texas. 
Marshall Hamby, Elkhart, Texas. 
Alf. L. Lewellyn, Archer, Texas. 

B. Y. Milam, Palestine, Texas, R. 3, Box 70. 
Elias Newson, Palestine, Texas. 

John Parker, Elkhart, Texas. 

W. J. Watts, Palestine, Texas. 

R. F. Wren, Amarillo, Texas. 

John Woodhouse, Wichita Falls, Texas. 

Company H, First Texas Regiment. 

J. M. Briggs, Kemp, Texas. 
J. Q. A. Capps, Neches, Texas. 

E. T. Ezell, Jacksonville, Texas. 
Captain W. H. Gaston, Dallas, Texas. 
J. R. Jones, Hubbard City, Texas. 

Company I, First Texas Regiment. 

A. A. Aldrich, Crockett, Texas. 

F. A. Blackshear, Crockett, Texas. 
H. W. Berryman, Alto, Texas. 

Lieut. W. M. Berryman, Goodnight, Texas. 
Winfield S. Bush," Houston, Texas. 
Jim Clanahan, Chandler, Texas. 
John G. Gates, Oakhurst, Texas. 
J. J. Hail, Corsicana, Texas. 
John A. Morris, Milano, Texas. 
Dave K. Renfro, Brownwood, Texas. 
Rev. Malley Reeves, Murchison, Texas. 

A. D. Oliphant, Austin, Texas (Home). 
Charles Scullv, Alto, Texas. 

Capt. W. B. Wall, Crockett, Texas. 

Company K, First Te.vas Regiment. 
W. W. Bate, San Augustine, Texas. 

B. Bates, San Augustine, Texas. 
Henry Bennett, Calcasieu Parish, La. 
W. B. Davidson, Hemphill, Texas. 
Frank B. Davidson, Hemphill, Texas. 
John C. Fall. Chireno, Texas. 

H. V. Fall, Chireno, Texas. 
0. T. Hanks, IMacune, Texas. 



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Sim Mathews, San Augustine, Texas. 
K. T. Noble, Logansport, La. 
W. I. Quinn, Alvord, Texas. 
W. H. Watson, Macune, Texas. 
Capt. Jno. N. Wilson, Nacogdoches, Texas. 
A. J. Wilson, Fort Worth, Texas, 928 Mo. 
Avenue. 

W. J. White, Lake Charles, La. 

Company L, First Texas Regiment. 
S. T. Blessing, Dallas, Texas. 
Ed Buckley, Eagle Pass, Texas. 

F. A. G. Gearing, Virginia City, Nev. 
Geo. A. Merk, Mt. Selman, Texas. 

T. L. McCarty, Oklahoma City, Okla. 
Wm. Schadt, Galveston, Texas. 

Company M, First Texas Regiment. 
S. Dominey, Pennington, Texas. 
W. A. Jernigan, Glendale, Texas. 
■T. 6. Locke, Corrigan, Texas. 
Geo. B. Lundy, Crockett, Texas. 
William Eoach, Nacogdoches, Texas. 
Sam Stubblefield, Appleby, Texas. 
W. J. Townes, Powell, Texas. 
Tom White, Centralia, Texas. 

Company A, Fourth Te.ras Regiment. 

W. C. Francis, Austin, Texas (Home). 
W. H. Pittman, Austin, Texas (Home). 

Company B, Fourth Texas Regiment. 

G. H. Crozier, Dallas, Texas. 
Val C. Giles, Austin, Texas. 
Wm. R. Hambv, Austin, Texas. 
Dr. L. D. Hill, Austin, Texas. 

E. B. Millican, Lampasas, Texas. 

A. S. Eoberts, Austin, Texas. 

A. R. Masterson, Houston, Texas. 

Company C, Fourth Te.ras Regiment. 
J. H. Cosgrove, Slireveport, La. 
J. H. Drennan, Calvert, Texas. 
W. A. Jones, Dallas, Texas. 
Dr. D. C. Jones, Cameron, Texas. 
Milt Livingston, Lockney, Texas. 
J. W. Sneed, Rosebud, Texas. 
Jake Sniilie, Rosebud, Texas. 
0. H. Tindall, Calvert, Texas. 
Bennett Wood, Temple, Texas. 

Company D, Fourth Te.ras Regiment. 
R. J. Burges, Se,guin, Texas. 
John Baker, Taylorsville, Texas. 
M. S. Dunn, Austin, Texas. 
Ed. Duggan, San Angelo, Texas. 

A. M. Erkskine, Seguin, Texas. 

W. T. H. Ehringhaus, Seguin, Texas. 
J. E. LeGette, Seguin, Texas. 
John M. King, Cuero, Texas. 

B. Schmidt, Seguin, Texas. 



J. D. Smith, Granite, Okla. 
M. V. Smith, Luling, Texas. 
W. P. Smith, Kyle, Texas. 
J. T. Reeves, Caldwell, Texas. 
Ben Terrell, Seguin, Texas. 

Company E, Fourth Texas Regiment. 

B. L. Aycock, Kountze, Texas. 
J. A. Bradfield, Dallas, Texas. 
T. M. MuUins, Big Hill, Texas. 
N. N. Ripley, New Castle, Va. 
P. M. Riplev, Tacoma, Wash. 
J. C. West, Waco, Texas. 

Company F, Fourth Texas Regiment. 
Geo. Allen, Austin, Texas (Home). 
T. J. Adams, Weimer, Texas. 
Capt. E. H. Cunningham, San Antonio, Tex. 
J. B. Currie, Paint Rock. Texas. 

C. A. McAllister, Paint Rock, Texas. 
W. P. Goodloe, San Antonio, Texas. 
Calvin Goodloe, San Antonio, Texas. 
Lieut. L. P. Hughes, Floresville, Texas. 
R. M. Murry, San Antonio, Texas. 

Jno. D. Murry. Sutherland Springs, Texas. 

A. J. Sutherland, Sutherland Springs, Texas. 
Texas. 

Dick Sutherland, Sutherland Springs, Texas. 
Texas. 

J. B. Polley, Floresville, Texas. 

Company G, Fourth Te.ras Regiment. 

Capt. T. C. Buffington, Anderson, Texas. 

Lieutenant W. E. Barry, Navasota, Texas. 

L. H. Barry, Navasota, Texas. 

John Atkinson, Edgecomb, Texas. 

Robt. D. Blackshear, Schulenburg, Texas. 

William M. Baines, California. 

Robert Hasson, Anniston, Ala. 

Dr. J. C. Loggins, Ennis. Texas. 

Frank Kelly, Navasota, Texas. 

J. A. Midkiff, Bedias, Texas. 

Jno. F. Martin, Navasota, Texas. 

Joe H. Plasters, Temple, Texas. 

R. H. Pinkney, Hempstead, Texas. 

Jas. M. Pettett, York, Ala. 

Prank Webb, Erwin, Texas. 

A. E. Watson, Marlin, Texas. 

Company H, Fourth Texas Regiment. 
F. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas. 
James Connelly, Deanville, Texas. 
Wm. E. Copeland, Rockdale, Texas. 
Capt. J. T. Hunter, Bronte, Texas. 
Dr. T. G. ]\ray, Ennis, Texas. 
W. J. Landrum, Montgomery, Texas. 
H. T. Sapp, Houston, Texas. 
Robt. R. Stratton, Midway, Texas. 
J. B. Seargent, Orange, Texas. 
John J. Smith, Montgomery, Texas. 



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Company I, Fourth Texas Regiment. 
M. Barn-, Marlin, Texas. 
W. H. Bates, Lone Grove, Texas. 
J. B. Crabtree, Stone Point, Texas. 
J. W. Duren, Corsicana, Texas. 
J. H. Herbert, Brent Wood, Tennessee. 
E. G. Halloway. Beard, Texas. R. F. D. No. 1. 
A. M. Lemmon, Fairfield, Texas. 
J. M. Lumnius. Canton, Texas. 
W. G. Jackson, Austin. Texas (Home). 
J. M. Polk, Austin, Texas (Home). 
E. G. Session, Rice, Texas. 
Pulaskie Smith, Lafayette, Texas. 
W. W. Templeton, Lampasas, Texas. 

Company K, Fourth Texas Regiment. 
Luke Derden, Corsicana, Texas. 
J. H. Kimbrough. Brownwood, Texas. 
Jack Smith. Ennis, Texas. 
Robert Tubbs. Rosebud. Texas. 



Company A, Fifth Texas Regiment. 

J. A. Cameron, Houston. Texas. 

B. L. Dyer, Opelika, Ala. 

W. A. George, Houston, Texas. 
James Landes, Chappel Hill, Texas. 

F. 31. Poland, Houston. Texas. 

X. Pomeroy. Clara MiUtret, County Cork. 
Ireland. 

Dr. S. 0. Young. Galveston, Texas. 

Company B, Fifth Texas Regiment. 
Dr. J. S. Bruc-e, Eagle Lake, Texas. 
A. H. Carter. Columbus, Texas. 
D. M. Curn,-, Durango, Texas. 
J. C. Kindred. Weimer, Texas. 
T. J. Roberts, Eagle Lake, Texas. 

Company C, Fifth Texas Re^ment. 
Capt. J. E. Anderson, Jewett, Texas. 
J. T. Allison, Marquez, Texas. 
A. B. Allison, Groesbeck, Texas. 
J. C. Cox, Tvler, Texas. 
D. 0. H. Caston, Bay City, Texas. 
Sam W. Irwin, Marquez. Texas. 

G. W. Irwin. Rosebud. Texas. 
H. P. Trawick. Bertram, Texas. 

C. M. C. Whaley, Jewett, Texas. 

Company D, Fifth Texas Regiment. 
R. A. Brantley, Somerville, Texas. 
J. G. Bowden, Huntsville, Texas. 
John Campbell. Knox City, Texas. 

D. M. Campbell, Houston, Texas. 
J. A. Dickev, Gatesville, Texas. 
J. E. Gilbert, Lena, 3Iiss. 
Martin L. Gilbert, Lena, Miss. 
A. M. Hinson, Gatesville, Texas. 
Capt. W. T. Hill, Mavnard, Texas. 
J. C. Hill, Mavnard. Texas. 



Major F. Chas. Hume, Houston, Texas. 

Walter Keenan, New Waverly, Texas. 

Calhoun Kearse, Huntsville, Texas. 

J. A. Murray, Phelps, Texas. 

Wm. H. Mvers, Poolville, Texas. 

Col. R. M. PoweU, St. Louis, Mo. 

Dr. W. P. Powell, Willis, Texas. 

J. X. Parker, Trinity, Texas. 

J. R. Robertson, Demopolis, Ala. 

J. M. Smither, Huntsville. Texas. 

Dr. Edw. Shackelford, Prattville, Ala. 

John A. Scott, Houston, Texas. 

Robt. Wood, Willis, Texas. 

Lieutenant Campbell Wood, Cherokee, Texas. 

Company E, Fifth Texas Regiment. 

A. M. Clay, Independence, Texas. 
S. T. Coffield, Wichita Falls, Texas. 
Lieutenant B. Eldridge, Brenham, Texas. 
R. K. Felder, Chappel Hill, Texas. 

J. B. Gee, Austin, Texas. 
John Gee, Bryan, Texas. 
Jesse B. Lott, Xavasota, Texas. 
Wm. R. Lott, Xavasota, Texas. 
.John J. Lott, Waco, Texas. 
J. H. Roberts, Liverpool, Texas. 

Company F, Fifth Texas Regiment. 

B. P. Brashear, Beaumont, Texas. 
Carl CurbeUo, Beeville, Texas. 

W. A. Fletcher, Beaumont, Texas. 
Milam Fitzgerald, San Antonio, Texas. 
Henry Griffith. Dayton, Texas. 
Darees Eashall, Sinton, Texas. 

Company G, Fifth Texas Regim-ent. 
John Allen, Marlin, Texas. 
E. M. Bean, Davis, Okla. 
T. M. Bigbee, Cameron, Texas. 
Geo. Barnard, Gatesville, Texas. 

C. J. Jackson, Xolansville, Texas. 

A. M. McKinnev, Jones Prairie, Texas. 
L. W. iliUer, Rockdale, Texas. 
W. A. Xabors. Cameron, Texas. 
C. P. Xance. Antioch, Tenn., R. F. D., 
Xo. 14. 

I. M. Pool. Stamford. Texas. 
E. W. Pool. Plainview. Texas. 
J. G. Sherrill, Rosebud, Texas. 
A. J. Sherrill, Ben Arnold, Texas. 
J. L. Stewart, Goree, Texas. 
J. D. Shelton, Rockdale, Texas. 

Company H, Fifth Texas Regiment. 

J. A. Chesher, Carlisle, Texas. 
J. E. Fridge, XLson, Texas. 
E. K. Goree, Huntsville, Texas. 
P. K. Goree, Midway, Texas. 
Jacob Hemphill, Haskell, Texas. 
T. S. Haynie, Jackson, Miss. 



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Mat Boss, Houston Heights, Texas. 

Hiram Simpson, Durham, Texas. 

J. S. Stone, Blountstown, Fla. 

J. L. TarkLngton, Tarkington, Texas. 

Wm. Woods, Glasgow, Kt. 

S. E. Walters, Lake Charies, La. 

B. T. Wilson, Singleton, Texas. 

Company I, Fifth Texas Regiment. 

Fritz Bettis, Merle, Texas. 

W. T. Blackburn, Green Pond, Ala. 

J. W. Dallas, Brenham, Texas. 

J. W. Dean, Blum. Texas. 

B. E. Fitzgerald, Llano, Texas. 

J. S. Grant, Tunis, Texas. 

D. Flanagan, Talbatt, Texas. 

J. T. Hairston, Independence, Texas. 

A. B. Hood, Somerrille, Texas. 

M. L. Lipscomb, Stone Citr. Texas. 

Ed. McKnight, McKnight," Okla. 



J. Xorford, Blum, Texas. 

H. M. Parker, Austin, Texas (Home). 

H. 0. Eobertson, Independence, Texas. 

W. W. Stephens, Temple, Texas. 

J. H. Stephens, Temple, Texas. 

W. F. Thomas, Clay, Texas. 

H. S. Tarver, Brownwood, Texas. 

C. Weibish, Brenham, Texas. 

C. H. Graves, Corsicana, Texas. 

Company K, Fifth Texas Regiment. 

Lieutenant J. M. Alexander, Livingston. 
Texas. 

Captain B. W. Hubert, Dallardsville, Texas. 

J. M. Jones, Dallardsville. Texas. 

T. F. Meece, Livingston, Texas. 

W. H. Matthews, Livingston, Texas. 

J. P. Smith, Gibton, Texas. 

J. B. Townes, Dallas, Texas. 

Bev. J. W. Stevens, Houston Heights, Texas. 



CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE 
WOMEN, HOMES AND PENSIONS. 



In 1893 the State took charge of the Confed- 
erate Home at Austin and through State ap- 
propriation began admitting indigent Confefl- 
erate soldiers, disabled from labor, resident in 
Texas, at that date. It is estimated there are 
now near 369 inmates there. The ac-commo- 
dations have not only been enlarged and re- 
furnished, when necessary, but the grounds 
have been beautified, making the Soldiers' 
Home a credit to the State. 

The average number of inmates in the Con- 
federate Home each year from 1895 and aver- 
age death rate: 





Xo. of 


Xoof 


Av. Per Cent. 


Year. 


Tnmatf«. 


Deathi. 


Mortalitv. 


1895 


120 


14 


11 


2-3 


1896 


150 


27 


18 




1897 


180 


21 


11 


2-3 


1898 


220 


31 


14 


1-11 


1899 


240 


26 


10 


5-6 


1900 


260 


32 


12 


4-13 


1901 


270 


20 


7 


11-27 


1902 


280 


40 


14 


2-7 


1903 


300 


20 


6 


2-3 


1904 


320 


30 


9 


3-8 


1905 


334 


27 


8 


1-11 


1906 


337 


41 


12 


1-6 


1907 


335 


64 


19 


7-67 


1908 


330 


49 


15 




1909 


337 


30 


8 


10-11 


1910 


341 


27 


15 


1-5 



During the year ending August 10, 1910, the 
following changes have occurred in the Texas 
Confederate Home: 

Xumber of inmates who have died 47 

Xumber of applicants who have been ad- 
mitted 88 

Xumber of applicants who have been re- 
admitted 17 

Xumber of inmates discharged at their own 
request 24 

Xumber of inmates dishonorably dis- 
charged 2 

Xumber of inmates dropped from the roUs, 
having gone on furlough and never been 
heard of .___ 2 

Xumber of inmates discharged for having 
taken oath of allegiance to U. S. before 
end of war 1 

Total number of inmates at the close of 
August 10, 1909 340 

Total number of inmates at the close of 
August 10, 1910 369 



Gain for year 



29 



The Woman's Home at Austin, which up to 
this date has been erected and supported by pri- 
vate solicitations of the Daughters, but which 
bv an amendment voted at the past election will 
secure an appropriation by which the State will 
admit widows and women who aided the Con- 



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federacy, resident in Texas prior to March 1, 
1880, has now become a State institution. 

The pension history of the State begins with 
1899, when $350,000 was voted, by an amend- 
ment, to Confederate soldiers and their widows 
resident in Texas prior to January 1, and March 
1, 1880, respectively. This being found insuf- 
ficient, another amendment in 1904 doubled 
this. By the act of the Legislature of 1909 the 
pauper clause was abolished and pensioners are 
now allowed as much as $1,000 worth of ))rop- 
erty. At the same time the date of marriage of 
widows was advanced from March 1, 1866, to 
March 1, 1880. This increased the pensioners 
from about 8,000 to about 12,000, and reduced 
the quarterly allowance from about $15. .50 to 
about $10.25. A measure to again double the 
appropriation to $1,000,000 annually by amend- 
ment introduced at the last Legislature is now 
being favorably considered. 

Last report estimates there are now about 10,- 
000 Confederate soldiers enrolled in Texas 
Camps. The whole number yet living, without 
enrollment, is unascertained, as the law requir- 
ing the assessors to list them seems to have gone 
by default. 

TEXT-BOOK LAW. 

The text-book law, ending in 1907, was then 
re-enacted for five more years, so that no change 
in our public school curriculum can be had till 
1912. The complaint raised by John B. Hood 
Camp of Austin in 1908, and joined by many 
Camps over the State, as to partisan matter 
creeping in certain text-books adopted by the 
State text-book board, has, in a degree, been 
eliminated by this board, but the law is radi- 
cally defective in not allowing the board suffi- 
cient time to scrutinize the text-books submitted 
for its examination. Texas is old enough to do 
its own editing, printing and publishing, re- 
gardless of foreign influences, thereby furnish- 
ing our children proper books for Southern 
sch(X)ls. 



LETTERS FROM AN OLD COMRADE. 

Col. R. M. Powell, Who Commanded Brigade at 
Appomattox. 

(Houston Chronicle.) 

Captain F. B. Chilton has furnished two let- 
ters, perusal of which will be of interest to Con- 
federate soldiers everywhere. The author of 
the letters is Colonel K. M. Powell, who went 
out as Captain of Company D, Fifth Texas 
Regiment, and rose to Colonel of the regiment. 
He was one of the brightest intellects of the 
State. He never was absent from duty except 
when wounded or disabled, and commanded his 



company, regiment or brigade as duty called, 
in many battles. After other wounds, he lost a 
leg. He is now more than 80 years old and a 
resident of St. Louis. The first letter was sent 
to Captain Chilton and in it was enclosed the 
letter to the lirigade. They are given in the or- 
der named, as follows: 

4314 Maryland Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., June 
19. — Dear Captain : My inclination and desire 
to meet you and the survivors of the old brig- 
ade has to yield to the commands of the doc- 
tor and the protests of my family. My disap- 
pointment amounts to grief. 

I enclose a message which I trust will be re- 
ceived in the spirit it is offered. It would be a 
great satisfaction to see you and all those who 
by the ties of kinship belong to the brigade. 
Memories are the only personal belongings the 
old have they can not give away or the thief can 
not take from us. They are each keepers of 
other possessions for those who come after them. 
^^Tien we can toil no more they are our only 
means of mental diversion or solace. My old 
friends are about me. I hear their voices in 
the whispering winds, their footsteps in 
the rustling leaves, their faces are in the chang- 
ing shadows of light and shade. So I live a life 
apart from the stirring activities that interest 
the younger generations. I can only rejoice 
with them in their sweets and share their griefs. 

Your letter pleased me so much it is a real 
joy to have such evidences of esteem and re- 
gard from an old friend and beloved comrade 
who earned merited distinction with the old 
brigade. My love to all the boys. 
Yours truly, 

R. M. Powell. 

* * * 

4314 Maryland Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. — 
Comrades of Hood's Texas Brigade in Reunion 
at Jacksonville : I greet you and this token of 
remembrance bears to you my message. Seven 
hundred miles separates us and I feel them 
every one. Fain would I be with you, but de- 
sire and prudence seldom walk together. He 
that is deprived of the privilege of meeting and 
communing with old comrades and friends 
walks alone in the world. Nothing thrills like 
the touch of heroic hands. On this occasion are 
born the elements of varied emotions. There 
is the mist of sorrow in the eye, while loving 
greetings and felicitations are exchanged. The 
brigade hears expressions of condolence and 
"The Old Dixie" fails to disperse the mournful 
and sable coloring of personal bereavement. A 
brother's hand has vanished and a cheerful 
voice is still. Too many have passed on to 
"Fame's eternal camping ground." Alas! how 
few are left. At the last muster, when Fate — 



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that merciless arbiter — decreed that further con- 
tention was vain, tempestuous spirits with stern 
dignity reluctantly laid down their amis with 
the sacred promise never again to bear them in 
the service of ihe "lost cause." When hope 
went down behind sodden clouds at Appomat- 
tox there was no hint of the veiled glory that 
was destined to make the deeds of paroled pris- 
oners illustrious. The souls of knightly and 
gallant men, victors on a hundred fields, were 
torn with doubt lest in one defeat the world 
would forget that for which they had fought 
and would be denied a place in the book of 
honor, or even a welcome home by despairing 
people. Passing from this woeful field they 
were driven by conflicting currents along un- 
charted ways through a universe of desolation, 
each path leading homeward was wet with tears. 
On every highway and gateway they encoun- 
tered armed guards, watchful of thir acts and 
speech, observant of their worn and dilapidated 
apparel and noted if in process of making "trea- 
son odious" the disloyal buttons had been re- 
moved. Dismal was prospect of making homes 
under the shadow of bayonets, which instead of 
commanding order, encouraged lawlessness. But 
for the footsore, weary pilgrim, there was heal- 
ing in store. They encountered mothers of the 
Confederacy, waiting and watching. These loyal 
mothers silenced their own grief to strengthen 
the fainting with the balm of sympathy, desti- 
tute themselves, they knew the grace of giving. 
What power there is in one kind and cheerful 
word or generous deed ! They make a rift in 
the clouds and reveal the road to hope. Look- 
ing back we realize that noble lives were lost 
and four years of fraternal strife and blood dis- 
figure the book of time. You surrendered your 
arms, but did not part with your honor ; you 
kept faith with your victors and yourselves, and 
always loyal to truth, right and justice. The 
victors despoiled you of your possessions in the 
name of their saint, John Brown, and his hypo- 
critical philanthropy, and now apologize to the 
world for the crime by singing a doxology to 
the Union, while they were the authors and in- 
stigators of the peril that threatened its integ- 
rity ; you lost just what a brigand could deprive 
you of. The victors acquired nothing of value 
to them and nothing to be proud of. There is 
no market for the spoils, and storage is being 
devoted to more precious and congenial fardels. 
Philanthropy is overburdened. Africa does not 
claim her own and if presented to the Philip- 
pines it must be on the point of the bayonet and 
will be received on the point of the sword. The 
arrival of spoils, the fruits of conquest, from 
the South has ceased to create jubilant enthus- 
iasm or to be an occasion for a banquet, benev- 



olent smiles, or an address of welcome. If 
there is an "open door" no sympathetic courier 
is in evidence to lead the way to it. The "ojv 
portunity" with roseate promise also banishes. 
The cargo is put in cold storage. There is no 
"graft" in it. The tar brush has lost its magic 
touch. The peans of victory with the chorus 
"We Will Hang Jeff Davis on a Sour Apple 
Tree" is no longer the ritual of those who claim 
to belong to the refined and cultivated class. 
They want to forget it. The intelligent and no- 
ble, and those who possess the royalty of brains 
and cliaracter, have decreed that no one of the 
knightly race of the South could so degrade 
themselves or their literature by such vulgar ex- 
hibition of prejudice and hatred. The vocab- 
ulary of the slums is unknown to pure and lofty 
souls. "The songs of a nation reveal the char- 
acter of the people." Now they are trying to 
rob us of our "Dixie" and make it utter strange 
words. The words known to iis are simple and 
sweet. They are expressions of purity and ten- 
derness, loyalty and reverence, the epitome of 
grace and beauty in poem and song. It was the 
inspiration of earnest men on the field of bat- 
tle ; it was heard in the song of the rifle ; it was 
heard in the swelling chorus of answering can- 
non. Yet in the heat of bloody strife the hearts 
of gallant men were not fired with the base pas- 
sions of malice and wrath. It was the last ap- 
peal of the weak to the strong for justice. 

From your masterful fathers' customs you 
received your own. The creed of chivalric 
fathers is still yours ; this land is a legacy from 
them and their tombs consecrate it. Craven and 
unworthy of your heritage had you refused to 
arrest the march of a hostile and predatory 
army, as remorseless in its purpose and as un- 
holv in its passions as pirates of the Spanish 
main. The surrender of your arms was but the 
beginning of an era of greater triumphs than 
were ever won on the field of Mars. In the 
W'hite light of peace triumphant Iiope nerved 
your restoring hands and the undaunted sons 
of masterful fathers compassed marvelous 
deeds. Cities have risen from ruins, homes 
from ashes and the bones of desolation clothed. 
The treasures of the orchard and the richer 
fruit of the field are the rewards of your toil 
and courageous striving. Out of a desolate land 
afflicted with despair and hopeless confusion 
you have created an Eden whose fame has 
reached all lands and the people of all nations 
desire it. Many of our comrades never returned 
to share these triumphs. Is there a storied urn 
to recall their memories? Or shall a monument 
perpetuate the deeds of the living and the dead 
of a cause that never dies? The pyramids of 
Egypt on the sun-scorched plains of Ghizeh 



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have outlived their gods, but the craft of man 
can not build a memorial that can outlive the 
principles which they so courageously and 
hopefully championed. While it stands it will 
be a beacon to guide wandering feet to the paths 
of honest endeavor and knightly deeds. In 
those daj's there were also heroic "mothers of 
the Confederacy." Shall there also be a com- 
panion shaft consecrated as a shrine for their 
daughters? Is there a day dedicated to their 
memory? Shall there be no records left of tlie 
grandeur of their sacrifices? Has any geutle 
band passed through the weeds and briars to lay 
a flower on their tomb ? Has the angel of mem- 
ory jtlaced a violet under a leaf to sweeten the 
mysterious silence, or a lily whose gentle glow 
crowns the humble mound that rests on her 
loyal bosom? In the beautiful South there is 
a house of forgiveness, but no lips touch the 
waters of forgetfulncss. for there are some 
things which to forget makes forgetfulness a 
crime. 



" HURRAH FOR TEXAS !" WAS WHAT 
E. K. GOREE SAID. 

I, with others of our brigade last year, at the 
Richmond reunion, had the pleasure of listen- 
ing to Hon. J. W. Daniel, of Virginia, pay 
Hood's Brigade of Texas the following tribute : 
Respectfully. 

(I was the man.) E. K. Gorek. 

''Somebody over there says, 'Hurrah for 
Texas !' Amen. And I am going to tell you 
what I think was the grandest eulogy ever pro- 
nounced on the Confederate soldier. Were any 
of vou bovs here at the battle of Gaines' Mill. 
on "the 27th of June. 1 Sfi2 ? Well, it is a won- 
der you are here now. I tell you, if Rome ever 
howled in this country, it was howling that day 
par excellence. That was one of the greatest 
charges that the Confederate army ever made. 
It seemed as if the skies above us were made 
out of sheet iron, as if the fiends of hell were 
ripping them up and flinging them around all 
to pieces. While the tremendous charge wa« 
going on. Hood's Texas Brigade of Longstreet's 
Division was called to go to the front in the next 
line. Boys, tell the truth about it, did any of 
you ever feel a little nal^ as we mnrcbed down 
ithe valley, with all the fiends of hell in the air 
about us? 

"Among the other wounded about us I saw 
a voun;.r Confederate officer, whose arm had 
been torn out right in the shoulder joint bv a 
cannon ball. Notwithstanding, he sat in his 
Baddle steadily, a great deal cooler than I am 
now. When our regiment, the Eleventh Vir- 
ginia, opened up for him to pass, and the men 



looked up at him. admiring the hero and pitying 
the man, he said : 'Go on, boys, and do your 
duty and don't mind me.' About that time 
there came a cheer on our left, and there came 
Texas. A few minutes later 1 saw two rather 
sorry looking men on horseback, and they looked 
like tramps who had been taken from the mills. 
They rode along behind this work, which had 
now been taken, and which the receding battle 
was only annoying with a stray shot, here and 
there. As soon as I saw them I recognized one 
who had on an old blue cap pulled down over hia 
eyes, and who also looked like a sailor who had 
just landeil and had fallen up on horseback and 
did not know how to get down. It was Stonewall 
Jackson. He passed in the rear of that tre- 
mendous place, over which Hood's Texans had 
charged, just a* the setting sun was parting in 
the West, and looking over that scene of awful 
slaughter and splendid valor, he spoke four 
words ; 'These men were soldiers.' " 



LETTER TO CAPTAIN F. B. CHILTON, 
OF HOOD'S BRIGADE MONU- 
MENT COMMITTEE. 

BY DR. L. D. HILL. 

Austin, Texas, August 25th, 1909. 
Dear Old Friend and Comrade: 

Our last meeting has brought to mind manv 
of the scenes of long ago, when we were both 
doing all we could in the service of our coun- 
try in Hood's grand old Texas Brigade in the 
Army of Northern Virginia. Many have been 
the changes in both of our lives since then. You 
have been head of the Immigration Bureau of 
Texas and the whole South, and many other 
places of importance; and you are now filling 
the most important position of your active and 
useful life, the Presidency of the Monument 
Committee of Hood's Texas Brigade. When I 
first heard of the appointment of this commit- 
tee, with you at its head, I thought and said: 
"Frank B. Chilton is the man for the place. He 
will give us a monument. He never failed, 
frum his boyhood, to accomplish his every un- 
dertaking. We will have the monument ; and 
I hope to live to see it dedicated next May on 
the capitol grounds of grand old Texas." 

Frank, I liave been unable to contribute much 
lo the building of the monument ; but I do claim 
to have contributed you, and that without you, 
the monument would not have been built. I 
found you on the platform of a railroad station 
in Virginia in 1862. The "red tape" distribu- 
tors of patients to their State hospitals refused 
to let me move you and said there was no use 



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as you were dying. Doctor Ewing, our Brig- 
ade Surgeon, arrived on the ground, and as he 
ranted the distributors, I asked him to let me 
take that brave young soldier of our brigade; 
that he was too young and good looking to let 
him die without an effort to save him. Doctor 
Ewing examined you and said it looked like a 
hopeless case. "Have you any Norwood's Tinc- 
ture of Varatrum with you?" he asked. I an- 
swered : "I have the undiluted tincture." "Give 
him ten drops," said Ewing, "you can't hurt 
him." I dropped ten drops in a spoonful of 
water, pryed your mouth open and we poured it 
down you. In thirty minutes your breathing 
was normal and we iinew that ^.our young life 
might be saved. In a medical and surgical 
practice of forty-eight years, civil and military, 
I know of no case that I took part in saving, 
both by the knife and medicine, whose life has 
been such a blessing to Texas, especially to 
Hood's Grand Old Texas Brigade. 

My appointment as Assistant Surgeon was 
made by General .John B. Hood, then Colonel 
of the Fourth Texas Regiment, who ordered me 
to organize a hospital for his regiment at Dum- 
fries as Assistant Surgeon of his regiment. 
The Surgeon General recognized this appoint- 
ment. I had to have my first report approved 
by the Surgeon of the post. Dr. Frost, who or- 
dered me to change all the typhoid fever cases 
which T had reported, from typhoid to typhus, 
which I did. The Surgeon General sent back 
to me this report with orders to change the 
typhus fever to typhoid fever, as there was no 
typhus fever in Virginia. I sent him my orig- 
inal report with Cross' instructions to change 
on it. When he received my original report 
with Cross' endorsement upon it, he wrote to me 
to send all future reports direct to him. This 
I did from that time on for four years, from 
all the field hospitals I organized for our brigade 
in Virginia. The Surgeon General thenceforth 
recognized all of my requisitions for medicines 
and supplies. This is my record as Assistant 
Surgeon of the Fourth Texas Regiment. Then 
I was ordered to Warrenton, Virginia, on the 
19th day of September, 18C2, after the second 
battle of Manassas, by order of General Hood 
throiTjcfh Captain Walsh, with instructions to 
move all sick and wounded I had in tents north 
of Richmond to hospitals, and report imme- 
diately to Warrenton, Virginia, and take charge 
of the wounded of the Texas Brigade, relieving 
Dr. Tom May, who was then in charge. When 
I got to Warrenton, I received a letter from 
General John B. Hood, saying: "You may be 
captured ; if so stick to your men ! Make the 
best arrangement you can in paroling them. 
Try to parole them as General Lee did the 



twenty-five hundred by giving the Surgeon's 
certificates." This letter was signed by Gen- 
eral John B. Hood by order of General Robert 
E. Lee. Sure enough, we were captured by Gen- 
eral Phil Sheridan and seven thousand men. 
Every other officer escaped and Sheridan 
hunted half a day for some one authorized to 
parole our twenty-five hundred wounded. Final- 
ly he came to my hospital and told me that he 
could not find a man who was authorized to pa- 
role our prisoners. I handed him Hood's letter 
endorsed by Lee. He read it and gave it back 
to me. He then said : "I can be as liberal as 
General Lee. How long will it take you to se- 
cure the certificates from all of your hospitals?" 
I answered : "About two hours." He then left, 
saying: "I will be back in two hours." I 
sent to each Surgeon in charge of a hospital a 
request that each one send me certified copies 
of the name, company and regiment of each 
man in his hospital and the character of his 
wounds, which they did. At the appointed hour 
General Sheridan returned. I signed all cer- 
tificates and he signed them after me. There 
was about 3,500 of each army in the hospitals 
at Warrenton. Dr. Thomas of Sibley's Brig- 
ade, who fell in the Black Hill Indian War, was 
appointed by Sheridan over the wounded of both 
armie:^ at Warrenton. and we found him a gen- 
uine gentleman and surgeon : hut "red tape" 
doubted my right to parole prisoners, but Marse 
Bol) Lee soon set matters right by announcing 
that it was done by his authority, and that set- 
tled it. This closes my service in the Army of 
Virginia and with mv travel from Richmond, 
Virginia, which you have, will enable you to get 
up such a synopsis of my history as can prop- 
erly go into the records of our old brigade. 

At the close of the war. T retiimerl to mv old 
home in Wcbberville, Travis County, Texas, and 
opened my old office for the practice of medi- 
cine and surgery to support my family. I had 
all the practice I could do for many years. I 
was then elected member of the Twenty-fifth 
Legislature by the people of Travis County, 
under the administration of Governor Chas. A. 
Culberson. I served Texas for two years the 
verv best I knew how. When Joseph D. Sayers. 
under whose father I studied medicine, was 
elected Governor, he appointed me Surgeon of 
the Confederate Home, where I served as such 
until my right arm was partially paralyzed so 
I could not use the knife safely in operating. I 
offered my resignation on the last day of April, 
1903, but the board refused to accept it. On 
the last meeting in June the same year, I went 
before the board in person and told the mem- 
bers I was going to quit as I could not do the 
work. They asked me to name my successor, 



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which I did, suggesting Dr. Joe Gilbert, a well 
qualified young, active surgeon. They elected 
him, giving me an honorable discharge. Seven 
months after, under Governor Lanham, I re- 
ceived the appointment as watchman on the 
fourth floor of the Capitol and was reappointed 
under Governor Campbell, and expect to con- 
tinue as long as I give satisfaction to the ad- 
ministration. 

Yours very respectfully, 

L. D. Hill. 

Assistant Surgeon Fourth Regiment, Hood's 
Texas Brigade. 

4c * « 
NOTA BENA. 

I neglected to state in the general article that 
when I was relieved at Warronton I reported to 
brigade headquarters for duty. I was ordered 
to report to Doctor Lindsay, Surgeon in charge 
of the Texas Hospital at Richmond, Virginia, 
for assignment to duty in that hospital. He 



gave me one hundred beds and I attended them 
until the hospital was closed. 

L. D. Hill, 

Assistant Surgeon Fourth Texas Regiment, 

Hood's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. 
* * * 

Captain Frank B. Chilton : 

Dear Old Friend and Comrade — We are both 

growing old gracefully and retaining some of 

the mental and physical energy of our youth, 

but we will soon both have to answer final roll 

call. Let us 

Cross the pontoon that Christ made 
To span death's dark, gloomy river 

With Lee, Hood and Jackson, rest under the 
shades 
With other dear companions forever. 

We will eat the twelve fruits that grow on life's 
tree 
And drink from life's sparkling river, 
Draw spiritual rations abundant and free 
And worship the giver forever. 

L. D. Hill. 



WAR TIME REMINISCENCES. 

An Unwritten Incident Connected with the Late War— Trip from Richmond, Virginia, to 
Texas— Judge Reagan's Children Returning to Their Home— Big Pile of Money and Stamps. 



By Dr. L. D. Hill, Austin, Texas. 



On the first day of February, ISGS, I left 
Richmond, Virginia, on the morning train in 
company with Major Matthews and Captain 
Grinnan in charge of the four children of John 
H. Reagan, the youngest a babe in charge of a 
negro nurse, all to be conveyed to the children's 
grandmother in Anderson, Grimes County, 
Texas. Besides the children, we were intnisted 
with $9,000,000 worth of Confederate money in 
undivided bills of different denominations, and 
$3,000,000 worth of postage stamps, all packed 
in three tobacco boxes. The money was to be 
delivered to Peter W. Gray, Secretary of the 
Treasury, and the stamps to John Starr, Post- 
master General of the Trans-Mississippi De- 
partment at Marshall, Texas. To undertake to 
run the blockade at such a time with such a 
charge was hazardous. Major Matthews of 
South Carolina, Captain Grinnan of Georgia 
and myself were selected by the Department at 
Richmond to execute the plan. We entered 
upon the discharge of that duty with the firm 



determination to keep the children and the 
money out of the hands of the Yankees and 
guard them safely to their destination or die 
in the attempt. As discipline was deemed neces- 
sary to safety and that each should understand 
his duty and do it. Major Matthews, our senior 
oflPicer, was selected to secure transportation and 
provisions, and issue marching orders, and Grin- 
nan and I were to guard the children and the 
money in his absence, and to obey his orders in 
danger when present. And all to do guard duty 
alike. 

On the morning we left Richmond, I was 
handed a sealed envelope, said to be from Gen- 
eral Lee, to be delivered to General E. Kirby 
Smith, with strict instructions not to let it fall 
into the hands of anyon'; but General E. Kirby 

Smith in person. 

* * t 

The first impediment we met was at Colum- 
bia, S. C, where we were detained until the bat- 
tle was over, and the road cleared for our pasa- 



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age. We were in telegraphic communication 
with Richmond and Army Headquarters and 
moved or stood still as directed by either as long 
as we were in communication with them. 
After we passed Columbia we reached Augusta 
by rail ; we were detained there one day. From 
that time we traveled to Mutbury Plains by 
rail. There we secured wagons, in which we 
slowly traveled to Milledgeville, Ga. From Mil- 
ledgeville to Montgomery, Ala., we traveled by 
rail and rested at Montgomery about a week, 
and left there on a river rteamboat for Selma. 
Wie were detained at Selma, Ala., one day to se- 
cure transportation to Meridian, Miss., by rail. 
At Meridian we were detained several days for 
road repairs to Jackson, Miss. We traveled 
from Meridian, Miss., through Jackson to Crys- 
tal Springs through a desolate country, wher« 
lone chimneys, torn up railroads and burned 
bridges everywhere gave evidence of the ruth- 
less destruction of public and private property 
by the enemy. At Crystal Springs the track had 
been torn up and railroad communication 
farther South closed. At Crystal Springs, the 
two sisters who had joined us at Richmond, to 
get to their home at Hazelhurst, secured private 
conveyance home. They were prudent ladies, 
and very kind and helpful to the children. We 
traveled in wagons from Crystal Springs to the 
mouth of Mink's Creek, below Rodney on the 
Mississippi River, where we were detained three 
days for a brigade of Confedexate cavalry to 
cross before us. I think it was Ector's Cavalry. 
They finished swimming their horses between 
gunboats the third evening after our arrival. 
Major ]\ratthews, having crossed the river, se- 
cured transportation and returned. We crossed 
that night in skiffs with muffled oars so as not 
to attract the attention of passing gunboats. As 
we landed the crash of the skiff upon the bank 
caused a passing gunboat to shell the boat, but 
we hastily placed the children and the valua- 
bles behind the levee and into wagons that were 
waiting for us and drove down the river, under 
protection of the levee, while they continued to 
shell the bank. We crossed Burne Bayou that 
night in a boat and spent part of the night at a 
hotel that was said to be frequented by Yankee 
officers, and they may have been there then for 
all we knew, for we left there before dav in a 
covered wagon, though the sleet was falling 
thick and fast. After traveling about an hour, 
and when it was getting daylight, we were met 
by a detachment of Confederate cavalry. Never 
were blockade runners prouder to see the Con- 
federate imiform on approaching cavalrv than 
were our little band that morning. The cavalry 
escorted us to Tensas Bayou, which we crossed 
the third evening and deposited the children 



and tobacco boxes on a "Choctaw." That was 
what the man called a raft of logs that he had 
fastened together and which he moved from 
place to place by hooks and spikes on the ends 
of long poles. On that raft and others like it 
we traveled from Tenses Bayou to Monroe, La., 
as that was the only means of transportation 
in the overflowed bottom of the Mississippi 
River at that time. We had to change rafts sev- 
eral times to cross strips of land between the 
bayous. We had our last landing and aban- 
doned our "Choctaw" eight miles from Mon- 
roe, where we were met by a government wagon 
and hauled to the city. There we remained one 
day and two nights to rest the children, rear- 
range their toilets and satisfy their hunger, for 
we had been on very short rations on the "Choc- 
tow." That was nothing new to Virginia sol- 
diers, but it was very hard on the children. 
They endured it, however, as they had other 
hardships and dangers, with the courageous 
spirit of young Te.xans. We traveled by stage 
from Monroe to Shreveport over rough and 
muddy roads and swollen streams and finally 
arrived at Shreveport safely with our charge and 
felt a profound sense of relief when we saw the 
Confederate flag floating over the headquarters 
of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. We were 
met by Colonel Guy M. Bryan of General Kirby 
Smith's staff, who welcomed us to the depart- 
ment. We were treated very kindly by officers 
and soldiers everywhere and were aided and 
protected by them at many points on our trip, 
for which we were all grateful. 
* * * 

Major Matthews and Captain Grinnan left us 
at Shreveport and preceded us to Marshall to 
deliver the money and stamps and take receipt 
for them, which they did. I regret that I have 
never seen nor heard of either of them since we 
parted at Marshall, for they were two as brave 
and prudent soldiers as ever defended the Con- 
federate flag or dodged a Yankee picket or gun- 
boat. 

The next morning after our arrival at Shreve- 
port, Colonel Guy M. Bryan accompanied me 
to General Kirby Smith's headquarters, where 
I delivered the sealed package to him in person. 
I do not know and may never know what it con- 
tained. The General granted me a furlough 
for thirty days and furnished me a good am- 
bulance, team and driver, to convey the children 
to their destination in Grimes County, after we 
passed the Neches River, which had been verv 
high. We passed Dr. Ephraim McDowell, old 
professor of the St. Louis Medical School, camp- 
ing on his wav West as a refugee. We rested 
one day with the children's uncle, Richard Rea- 
gan, in Rusk Count}', where John Reagan found 



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his Shetland pony his uncle had been keeping. 
John was a very happy boy when mounted on 
his pony for Anderson, where we finally arrived, 
safe and sound, and were met by Mrs. Nelms. 
the grandmother of the children, who received 
them as only a loving grandmother can receive 
the orphan children of a deceased daughter. 
There we parted with the children that I 
learned to love from long association and almost 
parental responsibility. I have never met any 
of them since, except John, who called on me 
while I was a member of the Legislature. But 
to resume, I spent one night at Anderson with 
the family of my deceased uncle, 0. H. P. Hill, 
and traveled from tliere to Navasota by stage, 
and from Navasota to Brenham from Hemp- 
stead. As I entered the car at Navasota, 
Colonel John Ixeland, afterwards Governor, 
who was a very sick man trying to get home, 
his noble wife accompanying him as faithful 
nurse. This was my first meeting with the man 
who afterwards Texas delighted to honor. T 
parted with Colonel Ireland and his wife at 
Brenham, then terminus of the Western Central 
Railroad, and traveled to my home at Webber- 
ville, Travis County, Texas, by stage, where I 
met my dear wife and three children, whom I 
had not seen since July, 1861. I remained with 
my family until my furlough expired and re- 
turned toMarshall "by stage. On my return to 
Marshall, I found the army discharged and 
everything in confusion. I was ordered by Dr. 
John Starr, Postmaster General of the Trans- 
Mississippi Department, to take charge of the 
etage line from Marshall to Austin and protect 
the stage horses, so he could continue to send 
the mail and transport disabled soldiers West 
until the Federal authority demanded sur- 
render and accept the best conditions he could 
make with them. He informed me that he in- 
tended to stand his ground until he surrender- 
ed everything in his possession to legally au- 
thorized Federal authorities and take a receipt 
for the same and make the best arrangements 
he could for mail service for his people in the 
future. He was a fearless and grand old man, 
who never flinched from duty or danger. Mr. 
Davis made no mistake in appointing him 
Postmaster General of the Trans-lMississippi 
Department. My first stop was at Tyler, Smith 
county, where I met Colonel 0. M. Roberts, 
afterwards Governor, who had called a citizens' 
meeting in the Masonic lodge to devise means 
for the protection of the army stores at that 
place and save them to be issued to the re- 
turning soldiers and their widows and orphans. 
On that occasion I heard Governor 0. M. Rob- 
erts make his first patriotic speech after the 
war, and his people were in full sympathy with 



him. I also stopped at Waco to arrange for 
the protection of Thebeck's stage horses who 
had the stage contract at that time. None of 
the stage horses were ever molested on that line 
so far as I know. From Waco I came to Web- 
berville, my home, by stage. My orders closed 
two weeks after the disbanding of the army at 
Marshall. L. D. Hill. 

The present Senator Arch Grlnnan is the 
son of the above Captain Grinnan. 

H^ + ^ 

DR. HILL AS A WAR POET. 

(Written at Warrenton, Virginia, by L. D. 

Hill, 18G2.) 

From the wounded young men of the Texas 

Brigade, 
To the ladies who kindly have rendered them 

aid; 
The Fourth Texas wounded especially claim. 
Forever to honor and cheri.<h their name. 

The Warrenton wounded that our ladies have 

fed, 
That have cared for living, and wept o'er the 

dead. 
That decked the fresh grave with flowers anew ; 
In short, who did all that our sisters could do. 

To see the fair maid as slie stood by the grave, 
Of one who had died his country to save, 
Those eyes were not human that shed not a tear 
When she whispered, "I wish his mother were 
here." 

There is Miss Annie Norris and Miss Mollie 

Homer, 
That forty-nine Texans will ne'er cease to 

honor ; 
And the three Jewish maidens — I know not 

each name — 
On our memory and gratitude have not a less 

claim. 

Other maidens and matrons have called in each 

day 
To soften our pillows and gladden out stay, 
'Till we feel among kindred and loved ones 

again, 
And to part with such kindness will give us 

all pain. 

When peace, lovely peace, to our nation shall 

come. 
On the bright plains of Texas we each have a 

home, 
Where a mother, a sister, or a wife now reside. 
And we from that hour will be seen at her side. 



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Then should chance, change, or fortune induce 

you to roam 
To that land of bright flowers, will you call 

at our home? 
With all of our loved ones we will welcome 

you there, 
And show you how grateful true Texans are. 

L. D. Hill, 

Asst. Surg. 4th Texas Eegt., Hood's Brigade. 



BATTLE OF MANASSAS. 



Geaeral W. R. Hamby Draws Upon His Personal Rec 
collections and Writes an Account of Texas Brigade . 
Anniversary is Here — Forty-seven Years Ago i^this 
Battle Begun and Continued for Two Days with a 
Fierceness and Determination Seldom Equaled. 

General W. E. Hamby, who served through 
the Civil War as a soldier in Hood's Texns 
Brigade, has written a very interesting 
account of the Texas Brigade at Manassas in 
recognition of the forty-seventh anniversary of 
this great battle, fought August 29 and 30. 
1868. He says: 

"Leaving Thoroughfare Gap early the morn- 
ing of August 29, 1863, by a forced march, the 
Texas Brigade reached Manassas Plains about 
10 o'clock that morning and at once formed 
line of battle on the right of the turnpike lead- 
ing across Bull Run ; Law's Brigade was on the 
left of the pike between the Texas Brigade and 
the right of Stonewall Jackson's corps, which 
occupied the line of an unfinished railroad in 
front of a portion of which was a deep cut. As 
the balance of Longstreet's corps arrived on the 
field they were placed to the right of the Texa.s 
Brigade, which made the Texas Brigade prac- 
tically the center of General Lee's array. 

"During the afternoon of the 28th and the 
morning of the 29th, Jackson's corps was hotly 
engaged with the Federal army and was largely 
outnumbered, and was in a critical situation 
when Longstreet's forces arrived upon the field. 
Some of his troops had exhausted their ammu- 
nition and were holding their position by hurl- 
ing stones down upon the enemy ; this was 
notably the case with the Louisiana Brigade. 
The Federal commander did not appear to 
realize the fact that Longstreet's corps had ar- 
rived, but was directing his entire attack upon 
Jackson. Several assaults had been made upon 
Jackson's front, all of which had been repulsed, 
but about the middle of the afternoon the Fed- 
erals attempted to turn Jackson's right flank, 
but his action was anticipated by General Lee, 
who ordered the advance of a portion of Long- 
Btreet's corps. The plain along in front of the 



Texas Brigade afforded better opportunities for 
observation, hence the Texas Brigade was or- 
dered as the column of direction and advanced 
on the charge with their usual vigor and alacri- 
ty, driving everything before them across fields, 
over creeks and through the woods, until they 
were overtaken by darkness over a mile from 
where they started. In these woods where it was 
so dark that friend could not be distinguished 
from foe and Federals and Confederates were 
mixed up indiscriminately for quite a while, 
resulting in many hand-to-hand combats. It 
was here that gallant Colonel Work, then in 
command of the First Texas, was struck over 
the head with a musket by a Federal soldier. 
Finally the lines were somewhat separated, 
vrhen it was realised that the enemy were in 
strong forces on three sides of the Texans. After 
remaining in this position some hours, orders 
were issued and the Brigade quietly withdrew, 
carrying with them a number of prisoners and 
several stands of colors and re-occupied the 
same line they held before the charge was or- 
dered. 

"In speaking of this action, Colonel Walter 
H. Taylor, adjutant general upon the staff of 
General E. E. Lee, says : 'The fight was spir- 
ited, but the Federals gave way before the im- 
petuous charge of the Texans, until Hood's 
line was a mile and a half advanced.' 

"The morning of August 30th opened clear, 
bright and warm, but before the sun had set 
it was hot, hotter, hotter. The Confederate line 
was somewhat in the shape of a crescent. The 
forenoon of the 30th again witnessed some as- 
saults on Jackson's line, but our artillery was 
used with admirable effect. Early in the after- 
noon of the 30th, a short distance to the left 
of the Texas Brigade, occurred one of the most 
brilliant artillery duels that was witnessed at 
any time during the war. Lender the direction 
of General Stephen D. Lee, who was then a 
Colonel of artillery, some of our batteries 
charged probably 200 yards beyond the Con- 
federate lines and fired so rapidly and with 
such acuracy they drove the Federal artillery 
within their reach from the field. Just then 
the Federals were making their third assault 
for the day upon Jackson's line, but when Ste- 
phen D. Lee's guns were turned upon them 
with such fearful havoc they staggered like 
the old guard at Waterloo and gave way in con- 
fusion. This was between 4 and 5 o'clock in 
the afternoon. It was then that a general ad- 
vance of the entire Confederate line was order- 
ed. The Texas Brigade, then composed of the 
First Texas, Fourth Texas, Fifth Texas, Eigh- 
teenth Georgia and Hampton's legion, advanced 
to the charge with their usual rebel yell, and 



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met the enemy just across an open field in the 
edge of the woods where they had met them 
the day previous. The Confederates were ill- 
fed, badly clothed, many of them barefooted 
and all of them footsore and weary from forced 
marches and almost constant fighting for the 
previous week or ten days, but their dust-cover- 
t'd, ragged gray clothing covered knightly souls 
and heroic hearts. Every soldier responded gal- 
lantly and nobly. Grandly and superbly their 
gray lines advanced with the cheers of victory 
ringing above the roar of artillery and the rat- 
tle of musketry. The charge was impetuous and 
irresistible. After the advance was ordered. 
General Longstreet sent for General Hood and 
instructed him not to move so far forward as 
to throw the Texas Brigade beyond the prompt 
support he had ordered, but when Hood reach- 
ed the Brigade, although he was riding his 
horse at a gallop, they had crossed Young's 
branch about 400 yards south of the Chinn 
house, had captured a battery of artillery and 
practically annihilated the Fifth New York 
Zouaves. 

"Orders were then issued for the Brigade to 
halt and adjust their alignment, but the enemy 
being in such strong force in front and on the 
left of the Texas Brigade, there was no time 
for the readjustment of the lines. General Hood 
says the line moved forward in a grand charge 
■upon the high and open ground, driving the 
enemy at a rapid pace, and presenting one of 



the most beautiful battle scenes ever witnessed. 
It was here the Fifth Texas 'slipped the bridle' 
and rushed forward to the vicinity of Sudley 
ford in advance of the entire Confederate line, 
which swept steadily on, driving the Federals 
with great loss until darkness put an end to 
the battle. 

"During the night the Federal army crossed 
Bull Kun and was concentrated near Center- 
ville, a few miles north of Bull Run. They were 
badly whipped and thoroughly demoralizejd- 
and but for the protecting shadows of darkness 
almost the entire army of General Pope would 
have been captured. 

"The second battle of Manassas will go down 
in history as one of the great battles of modern 
times. In its results it was one of the great- 
est victories ever fought by General Lee's army. 
General Pope, the Federal commander, with an 
army of 70,000 men, was practically routed by 
General Lee, with only about 50,000 men. The 
loss to the Confederates in killed and wounded 
was about 7,000 men. while the Federal losses 
were more than 14,000 men, in addition to 
thirty pieces of artillery, 30,000 stands of mus- 
kets, a large amount of army stores and many 
flags. The action of the Texas Brigade in this 
great battle won for them renewed distinction, 
but the honor was bought at a great sacrifice, 
their losses being 627 killed and wounded, of 
which the Fifth Texas alone lost 239." 



DIXIE. 



(Tune — "Annie Laurie.") 



0, Dixie's homes are bonnie, 
And Dixie's hearts are true. 
And 'twas down in dear old Dixie 
Our life's first breath we drew. 

And there at last we'd lie. 
With all our own close by. 

And for Dixie, dear old Dixie, 
We'd Inv us down and die. 



0, Dixie's vales are sunny, 

And Dixie's hills are blue, 
And Dixie's skies are bonnie, 
And Dixie's daughters, too; 
Angels of heaven fly. 
Bright stars in Dixie's sky. 

And for Dixie, dear old Dixie, 
We'll lav us down and die. 



No fairer land than Dixie's 

Has ever seen the light. 
No braver boys than Dixie's 
To stand for Dixie's right; 
With hearts so true and high, 
With ne'er a moan or sigh. 
And for Dixie, dear old Dixie, 
To lav them down and die. 



No more upon the mountains, 

No longer by the shore 
The trumpet song of Dixie 

Shall shake the world no more, 
For Dixie's songs are o'er. 
Her glory gone on high. 
And the brave who bled for Dixie 
Have laid them down to die. 



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MAJOR GEORGE W. LITTLEFIELD. 



George W. Littlefield is a native of Missis- 
sippi, but came with his parents to Texas when 
he was a small boy and settled in Gonzales 
County, Texas, where he remained until the 
war between the States. He entered the service 
as Sergeant in Company I, Eighth Texas Cav- 
alry, better known as the famous ierry i'exas 
Rangers. By election of his comrades, he was 
successively promoted to Lieutenant and tmu 
to Captain of his company; later he became 
Major of his regiment. He participated in 
every battle and skirmish in which his regi- 
ment was engaged, until permanently disabled 
in 18()4 by a wound wh.ich at first was thought 
to be mortal, but his indomitable will and cour- 
age saved his life, although he was confined to 
his bed for more than six months before he was 
able to walk. After the close of the war, al- 
though he was still on his crutches, he went to 
work to repair his liroken and shattered for- 
tunes with an energy and zeal that has ever 
characterized him in whatever he undertakes. 
He v.-as first engaged in farming, then in mer- 
chandising, finally giving his whole time to 
the cattle business, in which he has amassed 
a very large fortune. 

He became a citizen of Austin in 1882 and 
when the American National Bank was or- 
ganized in 1890 he was elected President, and 
has ever since been the head of that institution. 



Major Littlefield has been one of the most 
successful business men Texas has ever pro- 
duced. He is a man of highest integrity and 
discharges faithfully and efficiently every duty 
that devolves upon him. Believing today, as 
he did in 1861, that the South was right, he has 
no apologies to offer for his brave and faith- 
ful service as a Confederate soldier and is as 
true and loyal to the memory of the war and 
to the traditions of the South as he was in 
his young manhood. 

Major Littlefield is an honorary member of 
Hood'.s Texas Brigade and was an earnest and 
zealous meijiber of the Monument Committee 
and one of the largest contributors to the mon- 
ument fund and deserves the love and gratitude 
of every member of Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Governor Colquitt, had he searched all 
Texas, could not have found a worthier man 
upon vrhom to let fall the mantle of Regent of 
the I'niversity of Texas than Major Littlefield. 
It <40(>; without saying that he who has been 
;^o successful in every detail of his own affairs, 
until phenomenal height has been attained, will 
omit no opportunity to push our great Uni- 
versity to first place among the best educa- 
tional institutions of this or any other country. 
Major George W. Littlefield will be no second 
in the race where State pride and public spirit 
are concerned. 



ROBERT EDWARD LEE. 



(From Houston Chronicle, Jan. 19th, l!)0(i.) 

There is a legend which has long lived in 
tradition and been handed down from sire to 
son in lands beyond the sea that in the Holy 
City, where dwells the head of what many call 
the Mother Church, a young artist whose soul 
was aflame with religious fervor, and who felt 
within him the irrepressible aspiration of artis- 
tic genius, conceived the design of painting the 
head of the Crucified One. 

With all his being attuned unto his lofty 
purpose he sought to find among the children 
of men some face whereon the Divine had writ- 
ten such lines of beauty that it might serve 
as a model wherefrom he might draw inspira- 
tion for the performance of his self-imposed 
and exalted task. 

He sought amid the splendid pahices of the 
Eternal City, he went into tlie hovels of i^ov- 
erty, he studied the faces of the rich as they 
passed robed in purple and fine linen, and he 



peere i into the hovels of the poor in tiieir 
misery and rags. 

He wandered where the rich clusters of 
grapes purpled in the summer sun and where 
the air was filled with the perfume of myriad 
roses, hoping to find in the vales or amid the 
mountains "far from the maddening crowd's ig- 
nobli' strife" some child of poverty who per- 
chanc<- might fill tlie measure of his desire, but 
found he none, and, turning back to the city, 
weary and worn, and with yearnings unsatis- 
fied, he threw himself prone upon the floor of 
his atelier and cried out in an agony of disap- 
pointment and despair, "There is none! There 
is none ! There is no head of the Divine !" 

No enthusiasm of admiration, no desire to 
pav deserved tribute to exalted, pre-eminent 
worth, would justify or excuse comparison of 
the finite with the infinite, the human with the 
divine, of any son of earth with Him "who was 
born at Bethlehem," but every life that by its 
nobilitv, unselfishness and lofty ideals and 



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achievemeuts has ennobled and uplifted hu- 
manity has, consciously oi- unconsciously, 
drawn inspiration from the teachings and 
character of Him who was the ensample of 
every virtue and the embodiment of all right- 
eousness, and he who draws nearest to the di- 
vine model and exemplar is first and greatest 
among the children of men. 

Measured by every just standard of merit, 
human or divine, he who most nearly approx- 
imated in nobility, majesty, dignity, grandeur 
and purity of character to the Man of Galilee 
was born ninety-nine years ago today. 

Living, Robert E. Lee challenged by his he- 
roic, stainless, consecrated life the admira- 
tion of the world, and, dying left to humanity 
the heritage of an example of pure and lofty 
living, unswerving devotion to duty and self- 
consecration on the altar of conscience without 
precedent or parallel in human annals, and the 
historian of the future who seeks a model 
wherefrom to paint and portray the life and 
character of the South's great son will turn 



baffled from the search, as did the devoted 
dreamer who sought in vain a model where- 
from to paint the matchless features of his 
Lord whereon was stamped the impress of his 
Divinity. 

A superb soldier, a supremely skillful com- 
mander, the valorous captain of a glorious host, 
the matchless leader of a matchless army, he 
thrilled the world with his achievements, yet 
the warrior who dared death on a hundred 
battlefields was so tender of heart that 'mid the 
battle's deadliest hail he restored to its parent 
nest a bird that had fallen to tlie ground which 
quivered with the battle's shock, and the hand 
that grasped the sword was gentle and tender 
in its touch, and the voice that rang in clarion 
tones on many a field of deadly strife oft rose 
to God in the soft and gentle tones of hum- 
ble, fervent prayer. 

Soldier, gentleman. Christian, he will stand 
in history without mate or model — the South's 
matchless contribution to the ages. 



REUNION AT McGREGOR. 



BY B. H. CARKOLL, Jli. 



On August 16 there will gather at McGregor, 
Texas, a group of gray-haired men. The occa- 
sion will be the annual State reunion of Con- 
federate veterans, and, though from all parts 
of the State the silver haired soldiers will 
gather, yet if all should be present there would 
be only a small group left of what was once 
an army. 

Halting of step and slow will be the move- 
ments of these men. 

Their voices are feeble, and did you not know 
you might not guess that in the lusty strength 
of adventurous youth those palsied limbs car- 
ried courageous hearts ujp battery-crested, 
death-crowned fortifications, and that the 
trembling voices of these aged men was then 
the full-throated cry of triumphant boyhood, 
uttering that glorious treble battle cry, the 
"rebel yell," that spread consternation wherever 
its terrible tenor lifted itself above the rattle 
of musketry and the crash of guns, while the 
men who uttered it were making the hostile 
hillsides blaze with the red battle flags of the 
Confederacy. 

Many quiet years and some that were sad 
and bitter to proud hearts, have passed by since 
those days when these men left the boys who 
went out to war with them sleeping on the hill- 
tops and in the valleys. But the boys who died 



then will be remembered by the men who yet 
live, and also there will be remembered the 
roster of those whom dwath has claimed each 
year imtil now the army is but a group and in 
a few more swift-flashing years will be but a 
memory. 

Gray-clad men, pushed aside by the jugger- 
naut wheel of commerce, almost forgotten in 
the busy din of mart and market place, grown 
chary of telling the undimmed experiences of 
the dead years, they yet find auditors in their 
grandchildren, blue-eyed lads and bonnie little 
girls, who climb upon the gnarled old knees to 
hear about Stonewall Jackson in the valley, and 
Lee in the Wilderness, and the fighting at Mil- 
liken's Bend, and the siege of Vicksburg. and 
the charge of the men that followed Pickett up 
Cemetery Eidge at Gettysburg — and thus there 
is kept alive in young hearts the traditions of 
the courage and the valor of the Southland, and 
the glorious pride of race and country and 
achievement and love of the South blazes like 
a holy flame in the little hearts and kindles 
a never-dying altar fire of patriotism. 

The circle is complete when the chubby arms 
of babyhood are clasped around the neck of 
grandpa and when the brave blue eyes of boy- 
hood kindle at his stories. 

There is now no tramp, tramp, tramp of boys 




jMAJOR GEORGE W. LITTLEFIELD 

TERRY'S TEXAS RANGERS. 

President American National Bank, Austin, Texas. Regent University of Texas. 

Honorary Comrade of Hood's Texas Brigade. Member Hood's 

Texas Brigade Monument Committee. 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



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marching; there are steps that are heavy and 
slow, and the tattoo of the cane on the cement 
sidewalk is not like the rattle of the snart 
drums, and the dull copper luster of the bit of 
bronze medallion worn in the lapel is not like 
the glory of the gold and the gray; but that 
scrap of metal means more than the jeweled 
pendant or such orders as are the gift of kings ; 



it means more than the red ribbon of the Le- 
gion of Honor; it means more than the yellow 
trinket of the Golden Fleece or the ebon enamel 
of the Black Eagle of Prussia, for it marks the 
men who made such a fight that all the world 
wondered, and for four long years held aloft by 
the sheer force of the bayonet and the sword 
a cause that was as hopeless as it was glorious. 



LINCOLN-GRANT REPRESENTED AT THE SOUTHERN 
CLUB BANQUET BY SONS. 



Dickinson the Speaker. Robert L. Lincoln Loudly Cheered When he Related an 
Incident Which Occurred After Surrender at Appomattox. 



(Associated Press Report.) 

Chicago, April 10. — With the son of Abra- 
ham Lincoln sitting on one side and the son 
of General U. S. Grant on the other, Jacob JL 
Dickinson, Secretary of War and a former 
Confederate officer, sat in the place of honor at 
the banquet of the Southern Club of Chicago, 
held here tonight. These three listened to 
the mingled strains of "Dixie," "My Maryland" 
and "The Star Spangled Banner" and the 
cheering of more than '200 sons of the Sntitli- 
land. 

Marked enthusiasm met the Secretary's 
words in praise and explanation of President 
Taft's attitude toward the South. 

General Fred D. Grant also received great 
applause, but the demonstration of the evening 
was given to Robert T. Lincoln, the son of the 
martyred President. 

"I was old enough at the time of the war 
to be a young officer, and I remember enough 
to recall several incidents correctly. I well 
remember the spirit in which the victory was 
accepted by the Southerner and held by the 
Northerner. Several of us were sitting on the 
porch of the McLean house where General Lee 
was confined, when some of Sheridan's scouts 
came dashing up, waving Confederate battle 
flags nnd shouting for Grant. 

"They wished to show their enthusiasm in 
their victory. We dashed from the porch 
straight for the scouts. 

" 'Back,' we shouted. 'General Lee is in that 
house,' and the scouts dropped their battle 
flags, turned their horses and dashed away. 
They would not have it appear that they were 
trying to humiliate Lee. They were true Amer- 
icans. 

"National wounds have been bound up with 



brotherly love — American brotherhood, which 
is shown here tonight and was shown during the 
recent centennial given in honor of my father's 
birth. It was a wonderful celebration, and I 
have been greatly affected by it, especially from 
the Eastern and Southerner demonstrators and 
the eloquence poured forth by men of the 
South, especially at Atlanta, the city destroyed 
during the war. No greater honor could have 
been done my father, and I am glad to thank 
vou for it now." 



DRANK TO LEE AND GRANT. 

Son of U. S. Grant Propoied Toast at Hamilton Club 
Banquet. 

(Associated Press Report.) 

Chicago, April 10. — An impressive incident 
occurred at the Appomattox day banquet of the 
Hamilton Club late last night when General 
Frederick Dent Grant arose and called for a 
standing, silent toast to "Grant and Lee." 

"There was begun at Appomattox." said 
General Grant, "the period of good understand- 
ing between the North and the South. I am 
glad to realize the consummation of the wi;-h 
of my dear father, expressed for the final time 
in the last few hours of his life, that there 
would be ever an enduring peace between the 
North and the South." 

The room was hushed to absolute stillness 
while every one arose and drank to the mem- 
orv of the heroes of the Union and the Con- 
federacy. Then, when the banqueters had set- 
tled down again, round after round of applause 
broke out, while the tiny American flags waved 
everywhere. 



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PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS' NAME 

RESTORED TO CABIN 

JOHN BRIDGE. 



(Associated Press Report.) 

Washington, April 6. — Today proposals were 
opened at the office of the engineer in charge 
of the Washington aqueduct for restoring the 
name of Jefferson Davis to tlie stone tablet on 
Cabin John Bridge, six miles west of the city, 
from which it was expunged during President 
Lincoln's administration. The name is to be 
restored in accordance with orders given by 
President Eoosevelt on Washington's birtiiday, 
less than two weeks before he left the office of 
chief executive. 

Although the amount of work to be done is 
comparatively small and the cost very little, yet 
it took consideral)le time to get the orders 
througli the various channels to the officer di- 
rectly in charge of the work, who at once went 
about completing the necessary details. The 
bridge is a high structure and considerable 
scaffolding has had to be erected where the me- 
chanics will do their work. The restoration of 
Mr. Davis" name to the tablet will mark the cul- 
mination of many efforts with that object in 
view which, however, will finally be accom- 
plished without the immediate appeal of any 
organization or individual, but by the direct or- 
ders of Mr. Roosevelt liimself. An allotment of 
$150 was made for the work by the engineer's 
office. The specifications asking bids for the 
restoration of the name read as follows : 

"Restoring the name of Jefferson Davis on 
the granite tablet on the west abutment of 
Cabin John's bridge by removing the entire 
face of the stone about five feet by eleven feet to 
a depth approximately one inch or sufficient 
to form a new, clean, smooth bushed surface 
and recutting the legend now upon the tablet 
with the addition of the name Jefferson Davis, 
as shown upon the rubbing with 'V cut letters. 
The present ogee marginal border around the 
tablet is to be bushed to a clean bevel cut one 
and a half inches wide." 

Two stone tablets are built in the bridge, one 
on either abutment (south face). One bears 
the inscription: 

"Union Arch." 

Chief Engineer, Captain Montgomery. 

C. Meigs, U. S. Corps of Engineers. 

Esto Perpetua. 



The other: 

Washington Aqueduct, 

Begun A. D. 1853, President of the U. S. ; 

Franklin Pierce, Secretary of War. 

Building A. D. 1861. 

President of the U. S., Abraham Lincoln. 
Secretary of War, Simon Cameron. 

The blank space in tlie above description in- 
dicates the place formerly filled by Mr. Davis' 
name. Its absence from the tablet all these 
years has always stimulated curiosity on the 
part of sightseers who made inquiries as to why 
the space was blank and whose name, if any, 
had filled it. The presence of the name there, 
as an army officer i-ointed out today, will put 
Mr. Davis' name in the same category as the 
others now on the tablet, wliicli, because of its 
comparatively inconspicuous position, will not 
attract the attention that it heretofore has and 
will relieve the ubiquitous guide of one of his 
subjects for comment and an object of interest 
to be pointed out to tourists. 

It will probably take a workman two weeks 
to do the work required by the specifications. 
The use of the ''V" shaped letters to be chiseled 
in the tablet is less expensive and less laborious 
than the square cut letters usually adopted, but 
at the same time they are now conspicuous. 



THE NONDESCRIPT HEYBURN, OF 
IDAHO, HOWLS AT "DIXIE." 

Heyburn orders the band to stop playing 
"Dixie." He waves his hand in Idaho and ex- 
claims: "This is a Republican meeting; we 
want no such tunes here !" Music that comes 
"like the sweet South" arouses his rage. He 
hates everything that comes from the South ex- 
cept the darky delegates to Republican conven- 
tions. This is the same Heyburn who was found 
snarling at the heels of Lee when Virginia set 
up her majestic statue in the United States 
Capitol. It is the same Heyburn who has suc- 
ceeded by constant effort in making for himself 
a distinct place as the pest of the Senate. He 
may stop his hired bands in Idaho; but Hey- 
burn can no more stop "Dixie" than the old 
woman who brushed the beach with her broom 
could sweep back the sea. 

Lee could get no farther than Gettysburg 
with his armies ; but "Dixie" has marched on 
for fortv years, conquering the North, annex- 
ing Canada and ]\Iexico, and sweeping its way 
through Europe. It makes China hum and 
India pat its foot. Japan is its ally and all 
Africa its possession. Wherever the blood of 



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man bounds to martial iiiusic there "Dixie" 
sings its stirring strains. It will live long 
after the bloody sliirt has vanished and the 
mouthiest Heybum is dead. Long ago it ceased 
to be the air of a section and took its place 
among the hymns of the nation. No medley of 
patriotic airs is complete without it. Like the 
"Marseillaise," it not only recalls glorious mem- 
ories and historic deeds, but its notes stir the 
blood and sound forth like the trumpet call of 
battle. 

"Dixie" will not die. Whole legions of Hey- 



burns cannot dro^^^l its martial notes. It has 
become a part of the music of nations and, let 
us liope, also of the spheres ; and if the good 
things of earth are preserved in tlie hereafter, 
Heyburu may find Jiimself greeted when he 
reaches the heavenly shore by a celestial band 
playing in its most eflfective style the tune he 
hates so much. We trust before that time he 
may have become reconstructed and reconciled, 
so that he may not tuni his back on Paradise 
because "Dixie" is in tlie musical repertoire. — 
Baltimore Sun. 



A BRAVE AND FEARLESS UNION SOLDIER CONCERN- 
ING THE LEE STATUE. 



BY GEORGE C. ROUXD, MANASSAS, VA. 



(The Philadelphia Press of September 22, 
1910, contained this article. It was published 
at a time for distribution at the Atlantic City 
Encampment G. A. E. In a personal letter to 
the Press the author vrrote: "I am a native of 
Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa., was four and 
a half years in the Union Army, and was com- 
missioned by President Lincoln in the signal 
corps in 1864. At the end of the wnr T was 
General Sherman's signal officer at Raleigh, 
N. C") 

WHAT WOULD LINCOLN AND GRANT SAY? 

Comrades of the iSTational Encampment : I 
believe it would be a stupendous blunder to 
make a deliverance against the Lee statue at At- 
lantic City. For four and a half years I served 
as a soldier under Abraham Lincoln and Ulys- 
ses S. Grant, and I believe that were they alive 
todav they would rejoice with me in such a 
restoration of the T^nion, as is indicated by the 
presence of the statue of that illustrious leader 
of men in the Capitol of the nation. In this 
connection I submit the following propositions 
for your consideration : Every inch General 
Lee is raised on the pedestal of fame raises 
Grant and the Army of the Potomac, which 
overcame him in honorable battle. We cannot 
afford for our own reputation to minimize 
either the character or leadership of Lee. We 
can afford to be both magnanimous and ju.?t. The 
war of 1861-65 was no ordinary rebellion. It 
wa- more than a civil war. It was the might- 
iest conflict in the tide of time. It decided the 
character and organic structure of the imperial 
republic which will rule the world for a thou- 
sand years. Theodore Boosevelt has given it 
the best name vet. He calls it "The Great 
War." 

The Grand Armv cannot afford to iudse 



Robert E. Lee as it would the ringleader of a 
street riot. The Confederacy put up the most 
effective war against the United States ever 
waged in the history of mankind. For four 
years it was a belligerent nation, recognized 
as such by the world. There is no previous 
record in the world's annals of the complete 
overthrow of such a military power. That we 
finally accomplis!:ed it is the great credit we 
claim for the Grand Army of the Republic. The 
statue of Lee in Confederate uniform in the na- 
tional Capitol is not only a perpetual testimony 
to his personal character and leadership, but 
still more docs it bear eternal witness to the 
valor and leadership of the armies of the Union. 

It is true that charges of treason were made 
in 1861 against those who would not acquiesce 
in the election of Abraham Lincoln. The whole 
question, however, by its tremendous magnitude 
was taken out of the jurisdiction of courts of 
law and carried to the "Court of Last Resort." 
You and I and .T, 000.000 more from both Xorth 
and South (only 600,000, all told, from the 
South) were judges, and all of us did our 
best to bring about a righteous judgment. On 
the 9th of April, 1865. a decree was entered, 
in which the President of the Court, Abraham 
Lincoln, the prosecuting attorney, Ulysses S. 
Grant, and all the arbitrators on both sides 
unanimouslv concurred. I submit that the pa- 
role of General Lee and his soldiers at Appo- 
mattox had the effect of condoning and can- 
cellin.1T anv offenses they were held to have pre- 
viouslv committed against the United States. 

Four and a half decades have passed since 
then. Let us cheerfullv abide the decision in 
the famous "Trial bv Battle." 

In 1870 President Grant, with the approval 
of Congress, readmitted Virginia into the 



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American Union, with all the riglits to which 
any State is entitled. The President, the Con- 
gressmen and the whole nation knew that Lee 
was the idol of Virginia. What has happened 
is exactly what every thoughtful comrade must 
have anticipated. The governments of the 
Southern States were turned over to those who 
fought against us. General Lee's officers and 
soldiers have for forty years by the hundreds 
sat in Congress and made laws for us. The 
statute made in 186-1 clearly gives Virginia the 
right to choose her own heroes. Why should 
we draw the line on Lee, the best of them all? 
Let us abide by the law. 

What can we count on as the assured results 
of "The Great War?" An indestructible Union, 
universal liberty, universal education. Some of 
my good comrades find fault with General Lee 
because he did not apply for the removal of 
his disabilities established by the fourteenth 
amendment. To my mind his course after the 
war was honorable in the highest degree and 
will be to his everlasting credit. There is not 
on record a single action or word which indi- 
cates bitterness or hostility against the United 
States. He did not retire sullenly to private 
life. He carefully abstained from politics, ac- 
quiesced quietly in the immediate results of the 
war, and then went ardently at work to begin 
to bring about their legitimate sequence, uni- 
versal and public education. 

Since 1868 I have been a citizen of Virginia. 
As a minor school official I have given much of 
my leisure time to the establishment and main- 
tenance of the public school system provided 
for in the Constitution of 1869. It is the rapid 
and marvelous growth of this system which, in 
mv opinion, constitutes the hope of a true union 
of sentiment and feeling, a real liberty of 
thought and action, and a genuine reconstruc- 
tion of the great republic founded by Washing- 
ton and preserved under the blessing of God by 
Abraham Lincoln. 

The personal counsels and example of Rob- 
ert E. Lee as an instructor of youth contrib- 
uted powerfully to the inauguration of this 
greatest result of "The Great War." I have had 
unusual opportunities to form an opinion of 
his character and life not only from his own 
soldiers, but from Union men of intelligence, 
and particularly from his neighbor. Rev. Wil- 
liam H. Huffner. with whom, as Virginia's first 
Superintendent of Public Instruction, I was on 
terms of intimacy. It was at General Lee's in- 
stance and on his personal recommendation that 
Dr. Huffner undertook the great work of his 
life. This was the only case where General 
Lee gave the weight of his influence in favor 
of any individual for public office, and his 



reason for this was because of the supreme ne- 
cessity for the education of his people, who had 
been deprived of school privileges during the 



war. 



Finally, comrades, I will add that I can 
come to but one conclusion, and that is that the 
guiding principle of General Lee's life was his 
great saying: "Duty is the sublimest word in 
human language." 



ELEVATED ABOVE THE EARTHY. 
FATHER RYAN NOT A CANDIDATE. 

While States have been balloting lately as to 
who of their great men should adorn the Hall 
of Fame, John Brown of Osawatomie received 
sixteen votes and Father Ryan two, whereupon 
the Mobile Register and Houston Post tell in 
language well worth preserving how indestruc- 
tible is the life and character of Father Ryan 
and how time can never efface his memory. 

{From the Mohile Register.) 

Observing that Father Abram Joseph Ryan, 
the poet priest of the Confederacy, had received 
two votes for a niche in the Hali of Fame, 
whereas John Brown of Osawatomie received 
sixteen, the Houston Post, while not doubting 
that John Brown will ultimately have his name 
inscribed in that temple, trusts that hereafter 
nobody will ever cast another vote for "the 
sweet-souled author of 'The Conquered Ban- 
ner.' " The Post believes that his name does 
not belong there; that it does not belong any- 
where on this earth save in the hearts that 
grieve over the tear-wet graves of the South'a 
soldier dead. 

Then follows one of the most beautiful trib- 
utes that has ever been paid to the poet priest 
by a Southern newspaper: 

"So far as this world is concerned, the poet 
priest was not of it and his name does not be- 
long upon its scrolls of fame. His life brought 
no message to the striving hosts of mankind. 
His voice was not heard in the tumult and con- 
fusion of this life. His spirit rarely loitered 
where glory reveled or triumph reigned. The 
Hall of Fame is for the names of the great, the 
powerful, the achievers of wonders, the leaders 
of the race, those who spoke to all generations 
in tones of authority, the makers of imperish- 
able history. Surely the name of Abram J. 
Ryan would be out of place among these. 

"It belongs only in the South where his hum- 
ble work was performed, where his gentle heart 
broke amid the sorrow and despair of his peo- 
ple, where there were stricken souls to comfort 
and suffering bodies to relieve, where his soul. 



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so full of pity, could pour its balm upon the 
wounds of his prostrate country. 

"Some day perhaps the South will rear a 
monument to his memory, but even if that shall 
fail, his songs will eclio in Southern hearts so 
long as we remember the deeds of the boys in 
gray. His silent figure, moving about the bat- 
tlefield ministering to fallen paladins, can never 
fade from the South's memory so long as his- 
tory proclaims what our heroes did, and later 
in the dreadful fever epidemics he made new 
claims upon our gratitude that can not perish 
until all that is great and glorious in Southern 
achievements lies buried under the dust of 
ages. 

"So let the Hall of Fame proclaim the 
achievements of the great and leave the name 
of the poet priest to the South. We shall chir- 
ish it so long as memories of the Lost Cause 
thrill within us. After that it will not matter 
The Preserver of sucli Fame as Abram Joseph 
Ryan achieved has already inscribed his name 
where it belongs and where Time can never ef- 
face it. 

"Upon the indestructible walls of God's own 
temple, upon the purple hills of the Eternal 
City, his name is written in letters of living 
light and there it will gleam in the glory of the 
unsetting suns of the vast forever." 

The Register desires to call to the attention 
of the Houston Post that .such a monument as 
it proposes is already in sight, and that the Reg- 
ister for several years has been engaged in 
soliciting small subscriptions throughout the 
South, with the object of placing a permanent 
memorial of Father Ryan in Mobile. The sub- 
scriptions were made small so as to enable the 
largest possible number of Southerners to par- 
ticipate in the work. As a matter of fact, the 
fund obtained, now over $2,400, represents for 
the most part 10-cent subscriptions given by 
the people of Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and 
Louisiana, with occasional larger donations 
from Confederate Veteran camps. Daughters 
of the Confederacy chapters and individuals in 
other Southern States. 

It is fitting that the Register should have 
undertaken the work, because it was in Mobile 
that the poet priest ministered after the war 
and practically closed his ministerial career, his 
death occurring at Louisville where he had en- 
tered a spiritual retreat to commence what was 
his most ambitious literary effort, a "Life of 
Christ." Some of his most virile poems were 
written in Mobile, and he was long identified 
with this city as a pulpit orator and lecturer, 



and ministered to the sick of all denominations 
during two epidemics of yellow fever in Mo- 
bile. This city is, therefore, the place for his 
monument, and there is promise that a suita- 
ble monument will shortly be erected. The 
Houston Post can aid greatly in the work and 
the Register will be glad to have its assistance, 
as it will appreciate the co-operation of other 
Southern newspapers. 



While greatest efforts were being made a few 
years ago to relegate the Confederate soldier to 
obscurity, and Alabama was having an expe- 
rience of her own, a native Alabama poet told 
what would happen, as follows: 

WHEN WILL THE CONFEDERATE 
SOLDIER BE FORGOTTEN.? 

When the lion eats grass like an ox 

And the galnipper swallows the whale. 

When the terrapins knit woolen socks 
And the hare is outrun by the snail. 

When serpents walk upright like men 
And doodle bugs travel like frogs, 

When grasshoppers feed on the hen 
And feathers are found on the hogs. 

When Thomas cats swim in the air 

When elephants roost upon trees, ^r< 

When insects in summer are rare '. j 

And snuff never makes people sneeze. 

When fish creep over dry land 

And mules on bicycles ride, 
Wlien foxes lay eggs in the sand 

And women in dress take no pride. 

When Dutchmen no longer drink beer 
And girls get to preaching on time. 

And billy goats butt from the rear. 
And treason is no longer a crime. 

When the humming bird brays like an ass 
And limburger smells like cologne, 

Wlien plowshares are made out of glass 
And the hearts of Alabamians are stone. 

When ideas grow on goldbugs' heads 

And wool on the hydraulic ram, 
Then the Confederate soldier will be dead 

And the country won't be worth a d — n. 



WONDERFULLY TRUE AND CANDID ADDRESS TO 

G. A. R. VETERANS. 

BY DR. R. S. WARD (CO. C, MORGAN'S SQUADRON), CLARKSON, KY. 



(Accepting an invitation to address Union 
veterans of the local Post, Dr. Ward, after 
formal introductory remarks, made this ad- 
dress.) 

How different the return home of the Fed- 
eral soldier to the Confederate ! The former 
with flying colors marched home to the sound 
of marLial music to receive the plaudits of his 
people. The Confederate soldier, paroled in 
Virginia, a thounnnd miles or more from home, 
barefooted and ragged and without a dollar 
in his pocket, walked through a desolated coun- 
try to where was once his home, but now a pile 
of ashes. He did not sit in the ashes and give 
up in despair, but sprang with the same alacrit}' 
to restore the waste places and rebuild his home 
and section that he did to arms to protect his 
land from spoliation. 

What the (Confederate soldier achieved in 
war without pay and even without sufficient 
clothing or food he has excelled in peace. He 
had withstood the mightiest army ever mar- 
shaled for four long years. The time is now 
fast approaching when the world will give full 
meed of praise to the courage, fortitude, and 
devotion of the Confederate soldier. Our flag 
went down, but without a stain. 

Nearly two hundred years after the discovery 
of this continent there came to the bleak shores 
of New England a colony of men calling them- 
selves the Pilgrim Fathers, or Puritans. They 
came, they said, seeking religious liberty and 
freedom from persecution, hut in course of 
time as they grew strong they grew bigoted and 
intolerant. They persecuted other religious 
Iwdies and drove them out of the colony; they 
burned innocent men and women, and litt'," 
children as witches. The descendants of these 
witch burners are the same men who many 
years after attempted to set up a moral stand- 
ard for the balance of the world. They passed 
what are known as the "h\\ie laws," some of 
which were the most absurd imaginable, amon:x 
which was one that a man was not allowed to 
kiss his wife on Sunday and many others as 
ridiculous. Not many years afterwards a ship 
sailed for Africa and kidnapped a shipload ol' 
natives, and this was the first link in the ebain 
of events which brought on the most stupen- 
dous war since the dawn of time. It drenched 
this continent in I'ratricidal blood, and the end 
is not yet. The negro is still a menace to our 
civilization. I am no apologist for slavery; 
but Northern men commanding Northern ships 



introduced slavery into this country, and after 
trying slave labor and finding it unprofitable 
sold the slaves to the South, and then held up 
holy hands in h.brror at the enormity of slavery. 
The State of Georgia held a State convention 
to protest against the importation of slaves; 
but after the invention of the cotton gin by 
Eli Whitney, who, by the way, was not the 
inventor of the gin, Joseph Watson antedating 
Whitney by several years, the culture of cotton 
hecame profitable and the slave trade was ac- 
quiesced in. At this point I will state that the 
first steamboat ever operated was by Judge 
Longstreet, father of Confederate General 
Longstreet. Anfesthesia was discovered by Dr. 
Crawford W. Long of Georgia, and the first 
sewing machine was invented by a Mr. Gould- 
ing. 

In tlie course of time there sprang up an 
abolition party in the North with the sole ob- 
ject of freeing the slaves of the South, not- 
withstanding the Constitution recognized slaves 
as property. The abolitionist said : "The 
Constitution is in league with hell and a cove- 
nant with the dc\il, and slavery should be abol- 
ished." 

Mrs. Stowe wrote "Fncle Tom's Cabin," 
w-hich was an infamous slander upon the peo- 
ple of the South, and John Helper wrote a 
volume entitled "The Irrepressible Conflict." 
Wiile there were many books written against 
the South, the two mentioned inflamed the 
Northern mind more than any others. In 185S 
Lincoln ran against Douglas for the United 
States Senate, and in a speech at Frecport. 111., 
he made the staement that this coimtry could 
not exist half free and half slave; that it must 
be all free or all slave. About this time John 
Brown, with some other fanatics, seized Harp- 
er's Ferry and tried to incite a ser^'ile insurrec- 
tion and murder the men, women and chil- 
dren of the South. In 1S60 Lincoln was elected 
I'resident by the Northern people on a sectional 
platform, not getting the electoral vote of a 
single Southern State. 

Many people said the South was too hasty ; 
they ought to have waited for an overt act 
^^^^at were the speech of Lincoln, the books of 
^Irs. Stowe and Helper, and the John Brown 
raid? The South struck at the only time it 
could before its hands were tied, and it struck 
a knightly blow! No people since the dawn of 
time ever made a more heroic, self-sacrificing 
effort than (he Confederates. They had an 



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army and navy to organize and to equip 
throughout, the machinery of government to put 
in motion, and all this without money. All this 
was done and the most gigantic war of all times 
carried on for nearly fifteen hundred days. We 
had great men, good men, Christian men who, 
believing we were right, gave their lifeblood 
freely in defense of their homes, their wives, 
and their children. No people ever fought 
more bravely or sacrificed more; and when the 
war closed, they had nothing but God above 
and the earth below. 

The Federal government mustered into serv- 
ice 2,800,000, besides 34,000 seamen ; the South 
mustered 600,000 all told. You matched us 
man for man and then had 2,200,000 more. 
What men could do we did, but the odds were 
too great and we were overwliehned. There 
were 200,000 Germans, 200.000 negroes, and 
400,000 men of the Southern States against us. 

Well, Appomatto.x came and with it came the 
end of the war. These disasters were followed 
by a reign of terror worse than war. It was the 
carpetbaggers' era. The white people, the sol- 
diers who defended their homes and firesides, 
were disfranchised and their former slaves were 
given the ballot. It was said this was done to 
punish them — punish them for what? Men 
who would not fight under sucn circumstances 
would be despicable. 

Sherman went with a sword in one hand and 
a torch in the other and devastated a district 
forty miles wide and three hundred miles long, 
and only the great God of heaven will ever 
know the awfiU fate of hundreds of women and 
children in that area at that time. Everything 
— cattle, hogs, sheep, mules and horses that 
could not be used — was wantonly shot down. 
Young ladies were found picking up grains of 
corn where Sherman fed his horses out of the 
filth, washing and boiling it to eat. It was tlie 
best they could do. But, thank God, that des- 
ert blossoms now, and no other country is so 
prosperous as is the South. Last year the 
South produced eight billion dollars' worth of 
commercial products, eight thousand millions. 
a sum almost too stupendous to contemplate. 

I have referred to the days of Heconstruc- 
tion. If it had been left to the gallant fellows 
who faced us on so many bloody fields, we would 
have been spared such horrors, for "the bravest 
are the tenderest, the loving are the daring ;" 
but it was the politicians of the Thad Stevens 
type who were too cowardlv to fight but perse- 
cuted us after we were down. 

You had good men, brave men, and a lot of 



them ; you had some good generals, but we had 
better. Towering far above all others stood 
Robert E. Lee, a man pure and without re- 
proach. He had all the elements of greatness; 
he was a Christian, and the world has not 
known a greater soldier. "God made only one 
of him, and that was enough since Christ." 
General Grant's memory will always find a 
warm place in every Confederate heart ; for 
when the authorities at Washington threatened 
to arrest General Lee, General Grant prevented 
it. 

I cannot close jv.v nddress without paying a 
tribute to the faithfulness and loyalty of the 
slaves. There was a bond of sympathy and af- 
fection existing between master and slave that 
was sublime. I had a happy childhood. I had 
no young brothers and sisters, and my child- 
hood playmates were slaves. We played, himted 
and fished together, and a happy, joyous life 
we had. Good slaves were rarely ever punished. 
Now and then you would find a cruel master, 
as now cruel, brutal, drunken husbands who 
abuse their children and whip their wives. If 
they were the unhappy, discontented people 
they were i.'ictured. why did they not rise when 
their masters were in the army? Instead they 
toiled patiently to keep us in food and took 
loving care of the women and children left to 
their care. I love the memorj' of old slave 
times ; I love the old family slaves as I do my 
own kindred. The South is going to raise a 
monument, towering higli above the earth, to 
their memory. 

The pleasantest part of my address is to pay 
due tribute to the women of the South. I 
wish that I had a poet's fancy or that I could 
wield a painter's brush that I might paint in 
glowing words or colors the glorious women of 
the South. God bless the living and hallow 
the memory of the dead ! The South will ne'er 
forget their patience, their sympathy, their gen- 
tle, loving loyalty to the Southern cause. They 
took the costly vrraps that they could not re- 
place from their fair shoulders and made shirts 
for the boys in gray ; they took the carpets from 
their floors and made blankets for them ; they 
took the bells from their churches and cast 
them into cannon. They were of more than 
Spartan mold; they were the daughters of the 
Cavaliers who rode with Spottswood round the 
land and Ealeigh round the seas. Their type 
can flourish nowhere so well as in Di.\ie. Glo- 
rious as an angel's dream, pure in mind and 
thought as vestal virgins ! God bless the 
women of the South ! 



The soldier in blue and soldier in gray will today mingle their tears over 
the dead hero. To the one a brave and loving leader — to the other an honored 
and an honest foe. Both will together sing in tones of solemn chant over the 
bier of the dead General the Christian requiem requicscat in pace. When affec- 
tion weeps for the dead it pauses not to recount his honors or to exhibit the med- 
als and decorations that testified to his worth. The life and services of General 
Lee — that which he did for the cause in which he fouglit, are not themes for to- 
day's reflection. It is not the hero we mourn, it is the friend we lament. When 
the sorrow-stricken Apostles rose betimes to weep at the sepulchre it was not the 
crucified King for wliom they mourned ; it was the dead master and friend they 
lamented. They sought not the Messiah from wliom they expected glory, but the 
man who sympathized in their afflictions and mourned when they suffered. 



Lee is dead ! The soldier rests. When the loved Apostle, grown venerable 
with the winters of a centur\-, lay entranced on the Isle of Patmos, he heard a 
voice saying, "Write, from henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, 
for they rest from their labors." When the clouds of night hung like a funeral 
pall over the bloody field of Chancellorville — when the shrieks of the wounded 
and dying rose like a mad tumult — when the plunging horses, the screeching shell, 
the rattling musketry and the sullen boom of the cannon joined in terror and de- 
struction to the advancing hosts, the dying general murmured from between his 
quivering lips the invitation, "Let us cross the river and rest beneath the shade of 
the trees." He crossed then and rested on the green banks and beneath the waving 
trees that grow on the other side of that dark river. Thither Lee has gone to 
join him who was on earth always first in the advance. W]\o is there that can 
describe the meeting of these Christian soldiers in that bivouac of the dead, 
where the spirits of the brave do rest from their labors? As the angelic convoy 
which, like a guard of honor, escorted the spirit of the dead Lee from earth t» 
Heaven, descend from the bright clouds that hung over the murky river to its 
shores of emerald green and open ranks for the passage of their honored guest, the 
beatified spirits of Jackson, Sidney Johnston, Tom Green and Sidney Sherman 
advance to welcome their old commander, and all that celestial company award him 
the place of honor, while all around, marshaled on the green in companies, regi- 
ments and battalions, sit the mighty men nf valor who poured out their blood and 
gave their lives a willing sacrifice on the gory fields of Xorthern Virginia. No 
more shall the booming cannon disturb their councils. The rattling drum, the ear- 
piercing fife and the soul-inspiring bugle, give place to the melodious music of 
Heaven's orchestra. The sword that once carved destruction and death amid the 
slaughter of a battlefield is transformed to the cross of the Christian's triumph, and 
is now reared above that flowery lawn on which the spirits of IvCe and his followers 
do rest from their labors. 

And of all that mighty host not one will he unknown to or forgotten by its 
(iencral. As on earth he watched over tl;e humblest soldier that stood sentinel 
on the outposts, so there will he, in the spirit land, be bis companion, friend and 
counselor. Fathers, mothers, sistere, widows, weep if you will for the General that 
led your sons where the dread artillery plowed through their ranks and left you 
sonless, brotherless, husbandless. 

But rejoice and be exceeding glad that their old chief will be their friend and 
their leader in their progress toward that perfect bliss which is their eternal fu- 
ture. Into that blessed company to which the Christian General has gone you will 
soon follow, and although among the countless thousands that moulder in the 
trenches of Xorthern Virginia you cannot recognize the dust of your loved dead, 
remember and be comforted, for there you will know his spirit, and with him see 



the spirits of Lee and of Washington, who together enjoy an eternal rest. Al- 
though those green fields are fields of peace, think you not that the eye will 
sparkle as the spirit of I^ee shall tell that your loved boy when he stood beside the 
Rapidan and the Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorville, or Gettys- 
burg, did a man's duty and died as a man should die. When the spirit of Lee shall 
tell you this you will feel that it was sweet to die for one'country, for the brave 
do rest from their labors. 



CHIiargp of iI|ooIi*b Slpxaa Irtgab?. 



LEE AT THE WILDERNESS. 



'Twas a terrible moment ! 

The blood and the rout ! 
His great bosom shook 

With an awful doubt. 
Confusion in front, 

And a pause in the cries ; 
And a darkness like night 

Passed over our skies : 

There were tears in the eyes 
Of General Lee. 

As the blue-clad lines 

Swept fearfully near, 
There was wavering yonder, 

And a break in the cheer 
Of our columns unsteady ; 

But, "We are here! iVe are ready 
With rifle and blade," 
Cried the Texas Brigade 
To General Lee. 

He smiled — it meant death. 

That wonderful smile; 
It leaped like a flame 
Down each close-set file ; 
And we stormed to the front 

With a long, loud cry — 
We had long ago learned 

How to charge, and to die. 

There was faith in the eye 
Of General Lee. 

But a sudden pause came, 

As we dashed on the foe. 
And our seething columns 

Swayed to and fro : 
Cold grew our blood, 

Glowing like wine. 
And a quick, sharp whisper 

Shot over our line, 
As our ranks opened wide — 
And there by our side 

Rode General Lee. 



How grandly he rode ! 

With his eyes on fire, 
As his great bosom shook 

With an awful desire! 
But, "Back to the rear ! 

Till you ride to the rear, 
We will not do battle 

With gun or with blade!" 

Cried the Texas Brigade 
To General Lee. 

And so he rode back ; 

And our terrible yell 
Stormed up to the front ; 

And the fierce, wild swell, 
And the roar and the rattle. 
Swept into the battle 

From General Lee. 

I felt my foot slip 

In the gathering fray — 
I looked, and my brother 

Lay dead in my way. 
T paused but one moment 

To draw him aside : 
Ah, the gash in his bosom 

Was bloody and wide ! 

But he smiled, for he died 
For General Lee. 

Christ ! 'twas maddening work ; 

But the work was done, 
And a few came back 

When the hour was won. 
Let it glow in the peerless 

Records of the fearless — 
The charge that was made 
By the Texas Brigade 

For General Lee. 



"After Life's Fitful Fever He Sleeps Well." 
October 18, 1870. 



— Galveston News. 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



OUR CHIEFTAIN. 

(By Elizabeth J. Hereford.) 



They say thou art forgotten. 
Chief of tlie great Southland ; 

That thy people's vows are naught 
But ropes of frail sea sand — 

Or like the web the spider weaves 

In one short summer day, 
Blown here and there by passing winds, 

And swept by storins away. 

Believe it not; our hearts are true, 

Thy name can never die 
^Tiile yet one flower drinks the dew 

Beneath the Southern sky. 

Forget thee, n^ever! wliile one rav 

Of sunlight from the blue 
Falls earthward on the graves where lie 

Our soldiers brave and true. 

Ah ! in the dim hours of the day. 

The silence of the nights, 
We seem to see the troops in gray 

Sweep down from off the heights. 

And shadowy forms by riverside. 

And on fierce battle plain, 
Orce more our gallant soldiers ride. 

Our vessels speed the main. 

Our bugle notes sound once again 
Adown the vallevs wide. 



The beat of drum, the clash of steel, 
We hear on every side. 

Alas, the conquered banner 
Waves but in shadowy dreams, 

Our armies grand are phantoms 
That ford the flowing streams. 

Still we, with souls undaunted, 
Will sing our martial lays. 

And tell the coming ages 
The glory of those days. 

And nil about the sepulchers. 
The graves of our defeat. 

Will poesy the pathways tread 
And gather garlands sweet — 

Garlands that may not wither, 
Of names that can not die 

While yet one flower drinks the dew 
Beneath the Southern sky. 

Then, chieftain of the Southland, 
Proud heart, be of good cheer; 

Thy people's prayers for thee arise, 
Thy memory they hold most dear. 

We'll ne'er forget thee while one spot 
Remains where blood was shed. 

One memory in our lives is left 
Of our dear rebel dead. 



1807— ROBERT E. LEE -1908 

{Hoiiston Vhronklc.) 



One hundred and one }-ears ago there was 
born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, a child 
who was destined to stand forever among those 
whom men acclaim great. 

He was descended from an illustrious ances- 
try, and was the proud scion of a kniglitlv race 
of gentlemen and soldiers. His fame now is fi.\- 
cd beyond all detraction, and men of every land 
and ever}' political faith are proud to do honor 
to his memorv. 

The author of a recent "Life of Robert Ed- 
ward Ijce" pays him this splendid tribute, and 
it would be useless to attempt to say anything 
to surpass it : — 

"It is the fiery furnace of adversity, seven 
times heated, which constitutes the final and 



irrevocable criterion of ideal greatness, and esti- 
mated by this standard of determination, Lee 
is the sovereign hero of all the ages. * * * 

"Xo rational mind for a moment questions 
the surj assing soldierly greatness of Lee. Eulo- 
gy cannot add to its luster, detraction cannot 
impair it. even malice and envy have ceased 
to assail his pre-eminence. 

"We have striven to portray the man in these 
several enduring and exalted relations ordained 
of God which reveal in its richest fullness or 
its intensest significance the inner life of the 
human spirit ; in other words, Ijee as a husband, 
as a father, as a gentleman, as a Christian ; Lee 
at his own fireside, at his family altar, in the 
liouse of prayer ; Lee watching with tender and 




LAST .MEETING BETWEEN GEN. ROBERT E. LEE AND STONEWALL J. 



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unfailing care his honored wife, the Mary Cus- 
tis of his dawning manhood, commemorating 
their wedding day amid the carnage that mark- 
ed the long-drawn siege of Petersburg; Lee 
avowing his purpose never to abandon tlie 
South in the hour of her calamity unless driven 
into exile ; Lee refusing emoluments, dignities, 
the allurements of corporate wealth, that ho 
might devote his powers to repairing the waste 
places. Such is the character that we have en- 
deavored to portray." 

This tribute was as eloquent as it is true. 

The South will never fail to commemorate 
the anniversary of his birth. 

In some far off day, when Fame shall rear 
her Pantheon and bid each nation of the earth 
bring the image of that son who in grandeur 
of character and glory of achievement stands 
pre-eminent in her annals, the South will come 
bringing her Lee, and will bid Fame match him 
if she can. 



HOW A GREAT MAN MET DEATH. 

( Houston Ch ronicle. ) 

Whatever concerns a truly great man in his 
life or his death is always of interest to the 
historian and the reader, because when the 
events in the history of nations are analyzed, 
to trace their causes and study their results, 
it will be found they are the fruits of the efforts 
of men who stood above their fellows and left 
their impress upon their generation. 

Greatness is a relative term, but there is to 
be founds now and then along the pathway of 
centuries some man who in the field of inven- 
tion, of science, of statesmanship, of art or of 
war, stands in such towering pre-eminence that 
he is a world figure upon which immortality 
has put its seal. 

Stonewall Jackson was such a man. His ca- 
reer is without precedent in the annals of hu- 
man achievement. He was a rare, unique, won- 
derful character. His case demonstrated with 
clearness that greatness of the highest order 
often waits upon and only needs opportunity to 
manifest itself in enduring power. 

He was an almost unknown professor clois- 
tered in the Virginia Military Institute when in 
May, 1861, he entered the Confederate army, 
and in le.ss than two years he belted the world 
with his glory and left to posterity the heri ■ 
tage of the fame of one of the greatest com- 
manders of ancient or modem times, and a 
simple, earnest, devoted Christian soldier and 
gentleman. 

How such a man met death cannot fail to 
be of interest to every man or woman capable 
of admiring true greatness and beauty of life 
and character. The stor\' has often been told. 



but never so accurately, simply and with such 
tenderness and pathos as by Dr. Hunter Mc- 
Guire, who was medical director of Jackson'.- 
cor]is. Army of Northern Virginia. Dr. McGuin- 
was with him from a short time after he was 
wounded until he sank into the sleep eternal. 
In a most valuable work recently issued, en- 
titled "The Confederate Cause and Conduct in 
the War Between the States," by Dr. McGuire 
and the Hon. George L. Christian, chairman of 
the history committee of the United Confeder- 
ate Veterans, ap|:ears an address on Stonewall 
Jackson by Dr. JIcGuire, and the last chapter 
of the book is tlie wounding and death of Jack- 
son, as told by Dr. McGuire, who was one of the 
most distinguished of American physicians and 
surgeons, and who died only a few years ago. 
When told by his wife that he would die 
during the day, he said: "Very good. Very 
good ; it is all right." When Colonel Pendleton 
came into the room, he asked him who is 
preaching at headquarters today, and when told 
that the whole army was praying for him, he 
said : "Thank God. They are very kind. It is 
the Lord's day. My wish is fulfilled. I have al- 
ways desired to die on Sunday." When offered 
some brandy and water, he declined it, saying, 
"It will only delay my departure, and do me 
no good. I want to preserve my mind, if possi- 
ble, to the last." 

When told that he had but two hours to live, 
he answered firmly : "Very good. It is all 
right." A few minutes before he died he cried 
out in his delirium, "Order A. P. Hill to pre- 
pare for action ! Pa,ss the infantry to the front 
rapidly! Tell Major Hanks — " then stopped. 

His mind was still with his matchless corps. 
He was still leading his dauntless legions — the 
gray battalions were in that last hour defiling 
before him. 

Tlie watchers by that dying couch stood in 
silence, waiting to see if he would speak again. 
He did speak, and it must have been that with 
the eye of unfailing faith he caught a vision 
of the joys reserved for the redeemed, and upon 
his ears must have fallen the murmur of tTiat 
crystal river, which, flowing amid groves and 
liowers of eternal beauty, "maketh glad the city 
of God," for Dr. McGuire says: — 

"Presently a smile of ineffable sweetness 
spread itself over his pale face, and he said 
quietly, and with an expression as of relief, 
'Let us cross over the river, and rest under the 
shade of the trees,' and then, without pain or 
the least struggle, his spirit passed from earth 
to the God who gave it." 

Beautiful ending of a noble life I Fit passing 
of a majestic soul ! 

Blessed is the land which could bring forth 
a son who could so live and so die ! 



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THE LEE MEMORIAL ODE. 
(By James Barron Hope.) 

"Great Mother of Great Commonwealths" 

Men call our mother s^tate, 
And she so well has earned this name 

That she may challenge fate, 
To snatch away the epithet, 

Long given her of "great." 

First of all, old England's outposts, 
To stand fast upon these shores; 

Soon she brought a mighty harvest 
To a people's threshing floors, 

And more than golden grain was piled 
Within her ample doors. 

Behind her stormy sunrise shore 
Her shadow fell vast and long, 

And her mighty admiral, English Smith, 
Heads a prodigious throng 

Of as mighty men from Raleigh down 
As ever arose in song. 

Her names are the shining arrows 
Which her ancient quiver bears, 

And their splendid sheaf has thickened 
Through the long march of the 3'ears, 

While her great shield has been burnished 
By her children's blood and tears. 

Yet it is true, my countrymen. 
We are rich in names and blood. 

And red have been the blossoms 
From the first colonial bud. 

While her names have blazed as meteors 
By many a field and flood. 

And as some flood tumultuous 

In sounding billows rolled 
Gives back the evening's glories 

, In a wealth of blazing gold ; 
So does the present from its waves 
Eeflect the lights of old. 

Our history is a shining sea 

Locked in by lofty land. 
And its great Pillars of Hercules, 

Above the shining sand, 
I here behold in majesty 

Uprising on each hand. 

These pillars of our history 

In fame forever .young, 
Are known in every latitude 

And named in every tongue, 
And down through all the ages 

Their glory shall be sung. 

The Father of His Country 
Stands above that shut-in sea, 



A glorious symbol to the world 

Of all that's great and free; 
And today Virginia matches him — 

And matches him with Lee. 

II. 

Who shall blame the social order 
Which gave us men as great as these? 

Wlio condemn the soil of t' forest 
Which brings forth gigantic trees? 

Who presume to doubt that Providence 
Shapes out our destinies? 

Fore-ordained and long maturing 

Came the famous men of old. 
In the dark mines deep were driven 

Down the shafts to reach the gold. 
And the story is far longer 

Than the histories have told. 

From Bacon down to Washington 

The generations passed ; 
Great events and moving causes 
Were in seried order massed : 
Berkeley well was first confronted 

Better George the king at last. 

From the time of that stem ruler 

To our familiar da3-s 
Long the pathway we have trodden. 

Hard, and devious were its ways 
Till at last there came the second 

Mightier revolution's blaze. 

Till at last there broke the tempest 

Like a c.yclone on the sea, 
When the lightnings blazed and dazzled 
And the thunders were set free. 
And riding on that whirlwind came 

Majestic Robert Lee. 

Who — again I ask the question — 

Who may challenge in debate 
With any show of truthfulness 

Our former social state. 
Which brought forth more than heroes 

In their lives supremely great? 

Not Peter, the wild crusader, 

When bent upon his knee. 
Not Arthur and his belted knights 

In the poet's song could be 
More earnest than those Southern men 

Who followed Robert Lee. 

They thought that they were right, and this 

Was hammered into those 
Who held that crest all drenched with blood 

Where the "Bloody Angle" rose 
As for all else? It passes by 

As the idle wind that blows. 



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III. 

Then stand up, oh, my countrymen, 
And unto God give thanks?. 

On mountains, and on hillsides, 
And by sloping river banks — 

Thank God that you were worthy 
Of the grand Confederate ranks. 

That you who came from uplands 

And from beside the sea. 
Filled with love of old Virginia 

And the teachings of the free, 
May boast in sight of all men 

That you followed Robert Lee. 

Peace has come ; God give his blessing 
On the fact and on the name! 

The South speaks no invective 

And she writes no word of blame : 

But we call all men to witness 
That we stand up without shame. 

Nay! Send it forth to all the world 
That we stand up here with pride, 

With love for our living comrades 
And with praise for those who died : 

And in this manly frame of mind 
Till death we will abide. 

God and our consciences alone 

Give us measure of right and wrong, 
The race may fall unto the swift 

And the battle to the strong: 
But the truth will shine in history 

And blossom into song. 

Human grief full oft by glory 
Is assuaged and disappears 

When its requiem swells with music 
Like the shock of shields and spears. 

And its passion is too full of pride 
To leave a space for tears. 

And hence today, my countrymen. 
We come with undimmed eyes 

In homage of the hero, Lee, 
The good, the great, the wise. 

And at his name — our hearts will leap 
Till the last old soldier dies. 

Ask me, if you please, to paint 
Storm winds upon the sea, 

Tell me to weigh great Cheops ; 
Set volcanic forces free: 

But bid me not, my countrymen. 
To picture Robert Lee. 

As Saul bound for Damascus fair 
Was struck blind by sudden light. 



So my eyes are pained and dazzled 
By a radiance pure and white 

Shot back by the burnished armor 
Of that giory-belted knight. 

His was all the Norman's polish 

And sobriety of grace : 
All the Goth's majestic figure, 

All the Roman's noble face. 
And he stood tbe tall exemplar 

Of a grand historic race. 

Baronial were his acres where 

Potomac's waters run ; 
High his lineage — and his blazon 

Was by cunning heralds done; 
But better still, he might have said, 

Of his "works" he was the "son." 

Truth walked beside him always 
From his childhood's early years ; 

Honor followed as his shadow, 
Valor lightened all his cares; 

And he rode — that grand Virginian — 
Last of all the cavaliers ! 

As a soldier we all knew him, 
Great in action and repose; 

Saw how his genius kindled 
And his mighty spirits rose 

Wlien the four quarters of the globe 
Encompassed him with foes. 

But he and his grew braver 

As the danger grew more rife. 

Avaricious they of glory, 
But most prodigal of life, 

And the "Army of Virginia" 
Vas the Atlas of the strife. 

As his troubles gathered round him 
Thick as waves that beat the shore 

Atra Cura rode behind him ; 

Famine's shadow filled his door, 

Still he wrought deeds no mortal man 
Had ever wrought before. 

IV. 

Then came the end, my countrymen ; 

The last thunderbolts were hurled ; 
Worn out by his own victories, 

His battle flags were furled, 
And a history was finished 

That changed the modem world. 

As some saint in the arena 

Of a bloody Roman game. 
As the prize of his endeavor, 

Put on immortal frame, 
Through long agonies our soldier 

Won the crown of martial fame. 



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But there came a greater glory 
To that man supremely great 

(When his just sword he laid aside 
In peace to serve his state), 

For in his classic solitude 

He rose uj) and mastered Fate. 

He triumphed and he did not die; 

No funeral bells were tolled — 
But on that day in Lexington 

Fame came herself to hold 
His stirrup, while he mounted 

To ride down the Streets of Gold. 

He is not dead : There is no death : 

He only went before 
His journey on when Christ the Lord 

Wide open held the door, 
And a calm celestial peace is his; 

Thank God forevermore. 

V. 

Wlien the effigy of Washington, 
In its bronze was reared on high, 

'Twas mine with others now long gone 
Beneath a stormy sky, 

To utter to this multitude 
His name that cannot die. 

And here today, my countrymen, 

I tell you Lee shall ride 
With that sreat "Rebel" down the years 

Twin "Rebels" side by side. 
And confronting such a vision 

All our grief gives place to pride. 

These two shall ride immortal 

And shall ride the streets of time, 

Shall light up stately history 
And blaze in e)iic rhyme. 

Both patriot-;, both Virginians true, 
Botli "Rebels," both sublime! 

Our past is full of glories, 

It is a shut-in sea. 
The pillars overlooking it 

Are Washington and Lee, 
And a vision spreads before us 

Not unworthy of the free. 



THE SWORD OF ROBERT E. LEE. 
(By Father Abram J. Ryan, the Poet Priest ) 

Fortli from its scabbard, pure and bright, 

Flashed the sword of Lee ! 
Far in front of the deadly fight. 
High o'er the brave in the cause of right — 
Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light. 

Tjcd us to victory ! 



Out of its scabbard, where full long 

It slumbered peacefully — 
Roused from its rest by the battle song, 
Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong. 
Guarding the right, avenging the wrong. 

Gleamed the sword of Lee ! 

Forth from its scabbard, high in air, 

Beneath Virginia's sky ! 
And they who saw it gleaming there, 
And knew who bore it, knelt to swear 
That where that sword led they would dare 

To follow and — to die ! 

Out of its scabbard ! Never hand 

Waved sword from stain as free ! 
Nor purer sword nor braver band. 
Nor braver bled for brighter land, 
Nor brighter land had cause so grand — 
Nor cause a chief like Lee ! 

Forth from its scabbard ! How we prayed 

That sword might victor be! 
And when our triumph was delayed. 
And many a .heart grew sore afraid. 
We still hoped on while gleamed the blade 

Of noble Robert Lee! 

Forth from its scabbard all in vain, 
Bright flashed the sword of Lee ! 
'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again, 
It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain — 
Defeated, yet without a stain — 
Proudly and peacefully! 



1807— A CENTENNIAL OF GLORY— 1907. 

{Hovston Chronicle.) 

Within the compass of the century which 
closes with today many wonderful events have 
liappened. Many and vast have been the changes 
in governments and dynasties; many men have 
been born and for a season filled a large place 
in the eyes of the world, played their parts upon 
the stage and passed into oblivion. 

Kings have reigned and fallen ; kingdoms 
perished, and yet of all the multitude who have 
lived and died there be but few whose names and 
deeds live in the memories of men, and of that 
few, Robert Edward Lee stands pre-eminent. 

No invidious comparison should be made in 
such connection, but slowly but surely the minds 
of men in all sections and among all shades of 
political belief, are coming to the common view- 
point that General Lee, in the noblest sense of 
the world, is one of the greatest men who has 
ever sprung from the Anglo-Saxon race. 

There have been more intellectual men. 
greater orators, men of more marked forceful- 



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ness, but no other man has ever so combiner! 
the qualities of a great soldier and of pure, 
true, exalted Christian manhood and personal 
sweetness, gentleness and tenderness of charac- 
ter. General Lee fitly illustrates and justifies the 
beautiful metaphor of a great orator, who said : 
"Just as a certain great plant summons all its 
powers and blooms once in a centur\', so the 
moral forces and graces and influences of every 
century find concrete expression in some one 
great man, and Eobert E. Lee was the bloom 
and flower of the Nineteenth century." 

He was too great to be claimed entirely by 
one people. He belongs to universal humanity, 
but the South rejoices that he was her son. A 
noble scion of a knightly race, the verv flower 
of her chivalry, the humble Christian, the great 
commander, "who led his armies like a priest of 
men, and fought his battles with anointed 
spears." 



A NORTHERN VIEW OF JEFFERSON 
DAVIS. 

(From- the New Haven Register.) 

In replying editorially to the suggestion that 
the statue of Jefferson Davis be put in the capi- 
tol at Washington as one of the great Mississip- 
pians entitled to a place in that Temple of 
Fame, the Neiv Haven Register heartily ap- 
proves of the suggestion, and in that connection 
writes of the great Southern leader in a spirit 
of deserved praise and sincere regard for the 
truth of history that is commendable in the 
highest degree. 

"There is," says the Register, "something to 
say about Jefferson Davis and his admission to 
the National Temple of Fame. It is high time 
it was said. It is high time that the mist which 
for half a century has distorted the Xorth'^ 
view of this son of the South was cleared away. 
It is in justice time that the man who in his 
day suffered more than any other Southerner 
for the cause in which he believed should cease 
to be reckoned a traitor and coward, and be es- 
teemed for what he was — a brave, true South- 
em gentleman. 

"Jefferson Davis had his faults; the South, 
which knows best what they were, admit them. 
The South understands that the result might 
have been different. But the South will never 
cease to admire and honor the man of iron 
nerve, of dauntless courage, of ceaseless loyalty, 
of unsullied honor, of tireless energy, of peer- 
less chivalry, who suffered and dared and all but 
died for the cause he loved and lost. Of that host 
of true men who gave their best and their all 
for the Confederacy because in their deepest 
hearts they believed they were doing right, none 



was more sincere than he. Of that multitude 
who lined up for the struggle against their 
brothers of the Xorth none was braver and none 
was nobler. His sacrifice was as extreme as it 
was sincere, and his treatment by the victors 
after the crash came was sore medicine for a 
heart that was breaking. 

"It is a century and a year since Jefferson 
Davis was born. It is near to half a century since 
his cause was lost. It is twenty years since his 
death. What better time could there be to sig- 
nify, by the placing of his statue in the na- 
tion's capitol, that the wounds of that war are 
■healed, that in the blood of brothers shed the 
L'^nion is forever cemented on a foundation that 
standeth sure. There let his presentment stand, 
erect, noble, commanding, impressive, as he 
stood in the days when he was master of the des- 
tinies of half a nation. Let it there remind the 
South that it was mistaken and the North that 
it misunderstood. Let it nicture a martjT to a 
cause that, though lost, was not wholly in vain, 
since it taught brothers to appreciate a relation- 
ship they were in danger of forgetting. And not 
inappropriately might there be carved on it the 
inscription which an unknown poet of the South 
once suggested for his statue : 

Write on its base: "We loved him! 

All these years. 
Since that torn flag was folded, we've 

been true. 
The love that bound us now revealed in 

tears. 
Like webs, unseen till heavy with the dew." 

The spirit which prompted the writing of 
the above splendid tribute to the South's be- 
loved chieftain is that of justice and fair play, 
and it is significant that such an expression 
should come from New England where sectional 
prejudice has had its stronghold. 



WHERE THE BATTLES WERE FOUGHT 

The managers of one of the railroads that 
lies chiefly in Tennessee, has issued a map of 
the Southern States on which is dotted what is 
represented to be the locality of every chief bat- 
tle of the Civil War. Of course, the lesser ac- 
tions are not given and only considerable bat- 
tles are mentioned : the whole number is put 
down at 892. They are distributed by states as 

follows : 

Pennsylvania ^ 

Maryland - 1''' 

District of Columbia - 1 

Virginia 208 

West Virginia . - - 51 



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,. 46 
.140 



Kentucky 

Tennessee — 

Missouri 131 

Arkansas - 62 

Louisiana 37 

Mississippi 47 

Alabama 21 

Florida 15 

Georgia - j>0 

South Carolina _ '-'O 

North Carolina '>! 

Ohio - - — 2 

Indian Territory 1 

Illinois - 1 

Kansas - 2 

Indian Territory 4 

Texas - - 4 

Captain Frederick Phisterer, late of the 
United States Army, in his supplementary vol- 
ume of Statistical Kecord of the Military Ac- 
tion in the Civil War (published by Charles 
Scribner's Sons, New York, 1883), gives the 
date and place of every engagement beginning 
at Fort Sumpter, April 12 and 13, 1861, and 
ending with the surrender of General Kirby 
Smith's forces. May 26, 1865. A surrender 
is classed as an engagement, and he sums up 
all meetings of opposing forces, whether many 
or few participated, at 2,261. There were in 
each year such actions and engagements as fol- 
lows: 



1861.. 
1862... 
1863- 
1864.. 
1865... 



156 

5G4 
627 
779 
135 



Of course, 1864 was the bloody year, not 
only because of its greatest number of battles, 
but also because the desperate campaigns of 
Grant in Virginia and the heavy operations in 
Tennessee and Georgia, counted up so terribly 
in losses. Captain Phisterer figures up the en- 
gagements by States as follows : 

Pennsylvania _ _ 9 

Maryland 30 

District of Columbia _ _ 1 

West Virginia _ .... 80 

Virginia 519 

North Carolina 85 

South Carolina 60 

Georgia 108 

Florida - 32 

Alabama 78 

Mississippi 186 

Louisiana 118 

Texas 14 

Arkansas 167 

Tennessee 298 

Kentuckv - 138 

Ohio ". 3 

Indiana - 4 

Illinois 1 

ilissouri — - 244 

Kansas - - 7 

New Mexico 19 

Indian Territory 17 

The fights with the Indians in the We.stem 
and Northwestern States and Territories are not 
enumerated above. 



THE BLAME FOR THE CIVIL WAR AS FIXED BY 
IMPARTIAL HISTORY. 



Able Presentation of the Cause of the South Made by Judge George L. Christian, 
at the Richmond Reunion of Confederate Veterans. 



The report of the History Committee of the 
United Confederate Veterans was presented at 
the Richmond meeting by Judge George L. 
Christian, as follows : 

"Within the limits prescribed for this paper, 
it is impossible to discuss, with any degree of 
satisfaction, the issues involved in the great con- 
flict between the North and the South from '01 
to '65. The.se have, however, been so fully dis- 
cussed by other members of this committee on 
former occasions that but little remains to add 
to those discussions. 



"In a recent work, with the somewhat arro- 
gant title 'The True History of the Civil War,' 
the writer begins by saying: 

" 'The seeds of dissolution between the North 
and the South were carried to Virginia in the 
ships commanded by Newport and to Massachu- 
setts in tlie "Mayflower." Each kind fell upon 
soil well adapted to nourish its characteristics. 
* * * There was, in the beginning, an al- 
most imperceptible rift between the people of 
the North and those of the South. This grad- 
ually widened until, notwithstanding the neces- 



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sity for union, a separation in sentiment, 
thought and custom arose. This estrangement 
developed until it gave to the people of the 
North and the South the aspect of two races, 
manifesting towards each other all the antipa- 
thy of rival and dissimilar nations, and, in their 
disagreements, rendering impossible either sym- 
pathy with each other's standpoint, or patient 
listening to each other's contention.' " 

Without intimating any opinion as to how 
far all the other statements contained in this 
work warrant the author in giving it the title 
selected, a few glances at history will convince 
the most skeptical that the foregoing statement 
is well founded. 

THBEATEXED PUNISHMENT. 

In 1775, when Washington's army was in 
front of Boston, that great patriot-soldier issued 
a stem order, threatening severe punishment to 
any man found guilty of saying or doing any- 
thing to aggravate what he termed "the exist- 
ing sectional feeling." And during the same 
year, when Pe\i:on Eandolph, of Virginia, the 
first president of the Continental Congress, 
died, his brother-in-law, Benjamin Harrison, 
also from Virginia, was nominated for that 
position; but, as John Hancock, of Massachu- 
setts, was likewise nominated, it is said that Mr. 
Harrison, "to avoid any sectional jealousy or 
unkindness of feeling between the Xorthem 
and Southern delegates at so momentous a cris- 
is," had his own name withdrawn, and insisted 
on the election of Mr. Hancock. And so, too, 
in the Virginia convention of 1788, Mr. Henry, 
in opposing the adoption of the Federal Consti- 
tution, after pointing out the provisions to 
which he objected, and in which his almost pro- 
phetic ken saw dangers lurking, which have 
since been realized, said, after all, he did not 
so much object to the form of the instrument 
as he did to the character and dispositions of 
those with whom we were forming the com- 
pact. And another distinguished Virginian, 
with fervid eloquence, exclaimed that our op- 
pressions under the compact would be "worse 
than British tyranny." 

With these early, and seemingly innate, an- 
tipathies, stimulated and developed bv growing 
conflicting interests, arising out of tariffs, ac- 
quisitions of territory, and other causes, the 
"irrepressible conflict," as Seward termed it, 
would seem necessarily only a question of time. 

As to the real cause or causes which precipi- 
tated that conflict, there have been, and still 
are, differences of opinion. In our view, the 
settlement of this question is secondary; and 
the vital questions to be determined are — 



VITAL QUESTIONS. 

(a) Which side, if either, was responsible 
for the existence of the cause or causes ? And if 
slaverj- was the cause, which side was guilty of 
wrong-doing in dealing with that cause? 

(b) Which was the aggressor in provoking the 
conflict ? 

(c) Which side had the legal right to do 
what was done? 

And last, but by no means the least — 

(d) Which side conducted itself the better 
and according to the rules of civilized warfare 
pending the conflict? 

It seems to us that an answer to these ques- 
tions is pertinent at all times, and at this dis- 
tance from the conflict they can be discussed 
dispassionately, without engendering sectional 
bad feeling. 

UNJUST CHABGE. 

Our quondam enemies, knowing, as it seems 
to us they must know, that the evidence on every 
other point is overwhelming!}' against them, and 
relying on the sentiment of the world now ex- 
isting against slavein,', are prone to charge 
that the South fought for the perpetuation and 
exten^on of that institution. Or, to put it in 
the brief and common form, they charge (as 
some of our younger people, in their ignorance 
seem to believe) that "slavery was the cause of 
the war." 

It would seem to the unprejudiced mind that 
the mere statement of the fact (which, we be- 
lieve, was a fact) that more than eighty per 
cent of the Confederate soldiers held no slaves ; 
that General Lee. our representative soldier, 
freed his slaves before the war, whilst General 
Grant, the representative soldier of the North, 
held on to his until they were freed by the 
results of the war, and the further fact that 
General Lee said at the beginning of the war 
that if he owned all the slaves in the South, and 
could, by freeing them, save the Union, he 
would do so with the stroke of his pen, ought 
to furnish a satisfactory refutation of this un- 
just cJiarge. 

But let us admit, for the sake of the argu- 
ment only, that the charge is true. How, then, 
does the case stand as to us, both on the law 
and the facts? 

It will not be charged by the greatest enemy 
of the South that it was in any way responsi- 
ble either for the existence of slavery, or for 
inaugurating that vilest of traffics — ^the Afri- 
can slave trade. On the contrarv', history attests 
that slavery was forced upon this country by 
England, against the earnest protests of the 
South, as well as of the North, when the states 
were colonies under the control of that coun- 
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in America is to be found in the famous codi- 
of fundamentals, or body of the liberties, of 
the Massachusetts colony of New England, 
adopted in December, 16-11;" that the "'De- 
sire," one of the very first vessels built in Jlas- 
sachusetts, was fitted out for carrying on the 
slave trade ; "that the traffic became so popular 
that great attention was paid to it by the New 
England ship-owners, and that they practically 
mono])olized it for a number of years." (The 
True Civil War, pp. 28, 29, 30.) And history 
further attests that Virginia was the first state, 
North or South, to prohibit slave traffic from 
Africa, and that Georgia was the first to in- 
corporate that prohibition in her constitution. 
We have no desire to say unkind things about 
the North. But it is easy to show that as long 
as slavery existed there, as it did in all the 
Colonies when independence was declared, the 
treatment of slaves by the people of that sec- 
tion was as harsh, if not more so, than was ever 
known in any part of the South. Not only is 
this true; but it is also easy to show that, as 
long as the people of the North were the own- 
ers of slaves, they regarded and treated and 
disposed of them as "property," just as the 
people of England had done since 1713. when 
slaves were held to be "merchandise" by the 
twelve judges of that countrv-, with the venera- 
ble Holt at their head. We could further show 
that slavery existed at the North just as long 
as it was profitable to have it there; that the 
moral and religious sense of that section was 
only heard to complain of that institution after 
it was found to be unprofitable, and after the 
people of that section had, for the most part, 
sold their slaves to the people of the South ; 
and that, after Whitney's invention of the cot- 
ton gin, which wrought such a revolution in 
the production of cotton at the South, as to 
cause slave labor greatly to increase in value. 
and which induced many Northern men to en- 
gage in that production ; these men almost in- 
variably purchased their slaves for tliat pur- 
pose, and many of these owned them when the 
war broke out. 

NOT RESPONSIBLE. 

The South was, then, in no sense responsi- 
ble for the existence of slaver\' within its bor- 
ders, but it was brought there against its will ; 
it was clearlv recognized and attempted to bo 
controlled and protected by the constitution — 
the supreme law of the land — and the people of 
the South, not believing that any other or bet- 
ter disposition could be made of the slaves than 
bv holding them in bondage, only continued to 
do this. 

In the meantime, numerous efforts were 
made, both bv Southern states and bv individ- 



uals, to abolish the institution, and it is the 
almost universal belief now that these efforts 
would have been gradually successful but for 
the harsh and unjust criticisms of the Southern 
people by some of those at the North, and the 
outrageous, illegal and incendiary interferences 
by the abolitionists and their emissaries. As 
early as 1769 the house of Burgesses of Vir- 
ginia, tried to abolish slavery in Virginia, but 
was prohibited by the act of George III, then 
king of England, "in the interests of English 
commerce." And throughout the period from 
1776 to 1832, when the work of the abolitionists 
first began to be felt, the question of how to 
accomplish emancipation engaged the thought 
of some of the most eminent men of Virginia 
and other Southern states. 

Mr. George Lunt, a distinguished lawyer of 
Massachusetts, in his interesting work, entitled 
"Origin of the Late War," in which he shows 
that the North was the aggressor and wrong- 
doer throughout, says : "Slavery, in the popular 
sense, was the cause of the war, just as property 
is ilie cause of robbery." 

Wailst we do not indorse this statement look- 
ing at the subject from the viewpoint of a 
Southerner, yet, if it were true, surely there is 
nothing in it from which the people of the 
North can take any comfort or credit to them- 
selves. 

But so anxious are our former enemies to 
convince the world that the South did fight for 
the perpetuation of slavery, that some of them 
have, either wittingly or unwittingly, resorted 
to misrepresentation, or misinterpretation of 
some of the sayings of our representative men, 
to try to establish this as a fact. A noted in- 
stance of this is found in the oft-repeated 
charge that the late Mr. Alexander H. Ste- 
phens, vice president of the Confederacy, had 
said in his famous speech, delivered at Savan- 
nah in February, 1861, that "slavery was the 
cornerstone of the Confederacy." 

INFERIOR ORDER OF BEING. 

We have heard this charge made by one of 
the most enlightened and liberal men of thf 
North, and yet we have at hand utterances from 
this same Northerner, tantiimount to what Mr. 
Stephens said in that speech, ilr. Stephens was 
speaking of the Confederacy, just then organ- 
ized, and contrasting some of the principles 
on whicli it was founded with some of those of 
the Republican party, then coming into power 
for the first time, and ho said : — 

"Our government is founded on exactly the 
opposite ideal that the two races — black and 
white — are equal ; its foundations are laid, its 
cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the 



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negro is not the equal of the white man ; that 
slavery, subdrdination to the) superior race, 
is his (the negro's) natural and normal condi- 
tion." 

Now, it will be observed in the first place, 
that Mr. Stephens said the "cornerstone" of the 
Confederacy "rests upon the great truth that 
the negro is not the equal of the white man." 
And isn't this fact recognized as true today in 
every part of this land ? 

But hear now the utterances of this liberal 
and cultured Northerner, on the same subject, 
when he says, as he does : — 

"The Africans are distinctly an inferior or- 
der of being, not only in the South, or slave 
states, but throughout the North also, not en- 
titled to unrestricted pursuit, on equal terms 
of life, liberty and happiness." 

Is there any difference in principle between 
these two utterances ? 

If, as this distinguished Northerner asserts, 
and as every one knows to be true, the negroes 
are "distinctly an inferior order of being" and 
"not entitled to the unrestricted pursuit, on 
equal terms (with the whites) of life, liberty 
and happiness," does not this make "subordina- 
tion to the superior race his natural and normal 
condition," as Mr. Stephens says? 

But hear now what Mr. Lincoln, himself the 
great demigod of the North, had to say on this 
subject in a speech delivered at Charleston, 111., 
in 1858, when he said: — 

"I will say, then, that I am not, nor never 
have been, in favor of bringing about, in any 
way, the social or political equality of the white 
and black races. I am not nor never have been 
in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, 
nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of 
intermarriage with white people ; and I will 
say, in addition to this, that there is a physical 
difference between the white and black races, 
which I believe, will forever forbid the two races 
living together on terms of social and political 
equality. Inasmuch as they cannot so live, 
while they do remain together there must be a 
position of superior and inferior, and I. as much 
as any other yuan, am in favor of having fhf su- 
perior position assigned to the white man." 

.Again we ask. Is there any difference in 
principle between what is here said bv Mr. Lin- 
coln and what was said by ifr. Stephens in his 
famous "cornerstone" speech ? 

WHAT LINCOLN SAID. 

.'Vnd notwithstanding, Mr. Lincoln issued his 
"Emancipation Proclamation" 18 months later, 
he said in his first inaugural : — 

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to 
interfere with the institution of slaverv in the 



states where it exists. / believe I fiave no lawful 
right to do so, and I have no inclination to do 
so." 

Could he have used stronger language to 
show that he believed, not only in the legality 
of the position of the South on the subject of 
slavery, but that he believed in the propriety of 
that position as well? 

Mr. Toombs said in a speech delivered in 
Boston in 1856 :— 

"The white is the superior, and the black the 
inferior, and that subordination, with or with- 
out law, will be the status of the African in 
this mixed society. Therefore, it is to the in- 
terest of both, and especially to the blach race, 
that this status should be fixed, controlled and 
protected by law." 

And this is just as true today as it was when 
this statement was made by this great states- 
man in 1856. 

But there is this remarkable fact, in connec- 
tion with slavery and its relations to the war, 
which we have not seen elsewhere referred to, 
and which is, to our mind, a conclusive refuta- 
tion of the charge that the continuation or the 
extinction of slavery had any influence what- 
ever on the conduct of the Southern people, and 
especially that of the Confederate soldier in 
that war. 

The writer belonged to one of the three com- 
panies in the army, the personnel of which is 
so vividly described by the author of "Four 
Years Under Marse Eobert," in which there 
were serving, as privates, many full graduates 
of the T^niversity of Virginia and other lead- 
ing colleges, both North and South. In these 
companies a variety of subjects, pertaining to 
the war, religion, politics, philosophy, literature 
and what not, were discussed with intelligence, 
and often with animation and ability and yet, 
neither he nor any other of his comrades can 
recall the fact that they ever heard the sub- 
ject of slaven', or the relations of the slaves to 
the war, referred to in any way during that 
period, except that, when it was determined 
to put slaves in our army, a violent protest 
against doing so went up from the ranks, and 
the only thing which even partially reconciled 
our men to this proposed action was the knowl- 
edge of the fact that it had the sanction and ap- 
proval of General Lee. We have inquired of 
comrades of various other commands about this, 
and with the like result. Do men fight for 
n thing or a cause they never speak of or dis- 
cuss. It seems to us that to ask this question 
is to furnish the answer? 

LITTLE CONSIDERATION. 

Not only is the foregoing statement true ; but, 
with the exception of the steps taken io ^end no- 



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groes to help erect fortifications, employing 
them as laborers, etc., but little consideration 
seems to have been given them or of their 
siatiis to the war, either in the congress or the 
cabinet of the Confederacy. 

The reasons for this are manifest to those 
of us who lived in those days, but a word of 
explanation may be necessary to those who 
have since come on the stage of life. In the 
first place, slavery, as it existed in the South, 
was patriarchal in its character; the slaves 
(servants, as we called them) were regarded 
and treated as members of the families to which 
they severally belonged; with rare exceptions 
they were treated with kindness and considera- 
tion, and frequently the relations between the 
slave and his owner were those of real affection 
and confidence. As Mr. Lunt, the Boston writer, 
from whom we have already quoted, says : — 

"The negroes were perfectly contented with 
their lot. In general they were not only happy 
in their condition, but proud of it." 

Their owners trusted them with their fami- 
lies, their farms and their affairs, and this con- 
fidence was rarely betrayed — scarcely ever, un- 
less they were forced to violate their trusts by 
coming in contact with the Federal armies, or 
were beguiled and betrayed themselves by mean 
and designing white men. The truth is, both 
the white and black people of the South regard- 
ed the Confederate cause alike as their cause. 
and looked to its success with almost, if not 
quite, equal anxiety and delight. A most strik- 
ing illustration of this and of the readiness of 
the slaves to fight even, if necessary, for the 
Confederate cause, is furnished by the follow- 
ing incident: — 

In February, 186.5, when negro troops had 
been authorized to be enrolled in the Confeder- 
ate army, there were employed at Jackson hos- 
pital, near Richmond, 72 negro men. The sur- 
geon in charge, the late Dr. F. W. Hancock, of 
Richmond, had these men formed in line, and, 
after asking them "if they would be willing to 
take up arms to protect their masters' families, 
homes and their own from an attacking foe, 
61 out of 72 responded they would volimteer to 
go to the trenches and fight the enemy to the 
bitter end." — (War Reb. Rec, series iv. Vol. 
Ill, p. 1193.) 

At the date here referred to we know that the 
life of the Confederate soldier was one of the 
greatest hardship and peril, and the fact that 
five out of every six of these negroes were then 
ready to volunteer and go to the trenches show- 
ed conclusively how truly they regarded the 
Confederate cause as their cause, as well as that 
of the white people of the South. 

Indeed, we doubt if a larger per centimi of 



the whites in any part of the country, would 
have volunteered to go to the front at that stage 
of the war. If then it were true, as alleged, 
that the ivhite people of the South were fight- 
ing for slavery, does it not necessarily follow, 
that the slaves themselves were ready and will- 
ing to fight for it, too? One of these positions 
is just as true as the other. 

WRONGS COMMITTED BY NORTH. 

We think we have shown, then, that, even if 
we admit that "slavery was, as falsely charged, 
the 'cause of the war,'" the South was in no 
way responsible for the existence of that cause, 
but it was a condition forced upon it, one recog- 
nized by the supreme law of the land, one which 
the South dealt with legally and justly, as con- 
templated by that law; and history shows that 
in every respect and in every instance the ag- 
gressions and violations of the law were com- 
mitted by the North. Mr. Lunt says : "Of four 
several compromises between the two sections of 
country since the Revolutionary war, each has 
been kept by the South and violated by the 
North." Indeed, we challenge the North to point 
out one single instance in which the South vio- 
lated the constitution, or any of the laws made 
in pursuance thereof, whilst, on the other hand, 
fourteen of the Northern states passed acts nul- 
lifying the fugitive slave law, passed by Con- 
gress in obedience to the constitution, de- 
nounced and defied the decisions of the su- 
preme court, and Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, 
says of the abolitionists: — 

"They applauded John Brown to the echo for 
a series of the basest murders on record. They 
did not conceal their hostility to the Federal 
and State governments, nor deny their enmity 
to all laws which protected white men. The con- 
stitution stood in their way, and they cursed 
it bitterly. The Bible was quoted against them, 
and they reviled God, the Almighty, Himself." 

2. Our next inquiry is: Which was the ag- 
gressor in provoking the conflict ? 

^Ir. Hallam in his constitutional history of 
England, states a universally recognized princi- 
ple when he says: "The aggressor in war (that 
is, he who begins it) is not the first who uses 
force, but the first who renders force neces- 
sary." 

We think we have already shown by North- 
em authorities, that the North was the aggres- 
sor and violator of the constitution and of the 
legal rights of the South in reference to what 
they allege to be the "cause of the war," and it 
is easy to show, by like authorities, that it ivas 
clearly the aggressor in bringing on the war. 
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said : "With the Lincoln administration rests 
the responsibility of precipitating a collision, 
and the fearful evils of protracted and cruel 
war." 

In his reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for Vir- 
ginia's quota of 75,000 troops to coerce thi:- 
South, on April 15, 1861, Governor Letcher 
said : "You have chosen to inaugurate Civil war, 
and you can get no troops from Virginia for 
any such purpose." 

But we are not content to rest this question 
on the statements of these Southern authorities, 
as high as they are, but will let Northern wri- 
ters say what they think about this important 
question. Mr. Lunt says, in reference to Mr. 
Lincoln sending the fleet to reinforce Sumter 
in April, 1861: "It was intended to draw the 
fire of the Confederates, and was a silent ag- 
gression, with the object of producing an active 
aggression from the other side." 

Mr. Benjamin J. Williams, another Massa- 
chusetts writer, says : — 

"The South was invaded, and a war of sub- 
jugation, destined to be the most gigantic which 
the world has ever seen, was begun by the 
Federal government against the seceding States, 
in complete and amazing disregard of the foun- 
dation principle of its own existence, as affirm- 
ed in the Declaration of Independence, that 
governments derive their just powers from th^' 
consent of the governed." 

But, let us hear what Mr. Lincoln himself 
has to say on this question, and with his testi- 
mony we shall regard the issue as conclusively 
settled. In reply to a committee from Chicago, 
sent to intercede with him, to be relieved from 
sending more troops from that city to the 
Northern armies, Mr. Lincoln said, in a tone of 
bitterness : — 

"Gentlemen, after Boston, Chicago has been 
the chief instrument in bringing this war on 
the country. The Northwest has opposed the 
South, as New England has opposed the South. 
It is you irho are largely responsible for mak- 
ing blood flow as it has. You called for tvar 
itntil we had it; you called for emancipation, 
and I have given it to you, ]Wiatever you have 
asked you have had. Now you. come here begging 
to be let off. You ought to be ashamed of your- 
selves." (See Tarbell's Life of Lincoln, Vol. 
II, p. 149.) 

3. Which side had the legal right to do 
what was donef 

"On the columns of the monument erected 
to our great civic leader are the words pro oris 
et foeis, meaning that the real cause of (he South 



was that we fought in defense of our altars and 
our firesides. And the man who would not 

"Strike for his altars and his fires, 
God and his native land," 

is a craven and a coward and unworthy even 
of the name of man. Our country was invaded 
by armed men, intent on coercion and conquest. 
We met them on the threshold and beat them 
and drove them back as long as we had any- 
thing to eat and strength to fight with. We 
could do no more; we could do no less, and his- 
tory, our children, and even many of our for- 
mer enemies, now applaud our conduct. 

There were, however, two, and biit two, ques- 
tions really involved in the conflict. We can 
scarcely do more than state these and cite 
some of the many Northern authorities to sus- 
tain the position that the South was right on 
both of these. They were: — 

"(a) The right of a state to secede. 
"(b) The right of the Federal government 
to coerce a seceding state." 

As to the first of these questions, the late 
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, said what is 
true, that: "Secession, like slavery, was first 
planted in New England. There," he says, "it 
grew and flourished and spread its branches far 
over the land, before it was ever dreamed of at 
the South." 

And he further says, that John Quincy Ad- 
ams, in 1839, and Abraham Lincoln, in 1847, 
made elaborate arguments in favor of the legal 
right of a state to secede. 

Mr. William Rawle, also late of Pennsyl- 
vania, in his work on the constitution, the text- 
book used at West Point before the war, says : 
"It depends on the state itself to retain or 
abolish the principle of representation, because 
it depends on itself, tvhether it will continue a 
member of the Union." 

Timothy Pickering, Josiah Quincy and Mr. 
Henry Cabot Lodge, all of Massachusetts, the 
late Horace Greeley, Goldwin Smith, General 
Don Piet, of the Federal army, and the 
Hartford convention, all asserted and af- 
firmed the same principle. And we know that 
had not this right been understood to exist at 
the time of the adoption of the constitution, it 
would never have been adopted. 

As to the second of these questions, t. e.,— 
the right of the Federal government to coerce 
a seceding state : — 

This question was discussed to some extent 
in the convention. Mr. Madison, called the 
"Father of the Constitution," said : — 



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"The more he reflected on the use of force, 
the more he doubted the practicability, the jus- 
tice and the efficiency of it when applied to 
people collectively, and not individually. .-1 
miion of flie states containing such an ingredi- 
ent seemed to provide for its own destruction." 

And Mr. Hamilton said: — 

"But how can this force be exercised on the 
states collectively? It is impossible. It amounts 
to war between the parties. Foreign powers also 
will not be idle spectators. They will interpose, 
and a dissolution of the Union will ensue." (5th 
Mad. Pap. 140 and 200.) And no such right 
or power can be found anywhere in the con- 
stitution." 

The late James C. Carter, of New York (a 
native of New England) one of the greatest 
lawyers this country has ever produced, said: — 

"I may hazard the opinion that, if the ques- 
tion had been made, not in 1860, but in 1788, 
inuiiediately after the adoption of the constitu- 
tion, whether the Union, as formed by that in- 
strument, could lawfully treat the secession of 
a state as rebellion, and suppress it by force, 
few of those who participated in forming that 
instrument would have answered in the affirm- 
ative." 

In November, 1860, the New York Herald 
said : — 

"Each state is organized as a complete gov- 
ernment, holding the purpose and wielding the 
sword, possessing the right to break the tie 
of confederation as a nation might break a 
treaty, and to repel coercion as a nation mignt 
repel invasion. * * * Coercion, if it were 
possible, is out of the question." 

The question was maturely considered by Mr. 
Buchanan and his cabinet at the close of his 
administration, and it was tmanimoiisly determ- 
ined that no such right existed. 

One of the resolutions of the platform of the 
Chicago convention, on which Mr. Lincoln was 
elected, and which he reaffirmed in his first 
inaugural, was the following: 

"Kesolved, Tliat the maintenance inviolate 
of the rights of the states, and especially the 
right of each state to order and control its own 
flomestic institutions, according to its own 
judgment exclusively, is essential to the bal- 
ance of power, on which the perfection and 
endurance of our political fabric depends, and 
ire denounce the lawless inrasion by armed 
force of the soil of any state or territon/, no 
matter under what pretext, as among the grav- 
est of crimes," 



COERCION GRAVEST OF CRIMES. 

To show that Mr. Lincoln was fully cognizant 
of the fact that he was committing this "gravest 
of crimes" when he caused his armies to invade 
the Southern states, we will give his own defi- 
nition of the meaning of tlie terms "invasion"' 
and "coercion," as contained in his speech de- 
livered at Indianapolis on his journey to Wash- 
ington, to be inaugurated, in February, 1861. 
He asks: "What, then, is 'coercion?' \\liat is 
'invasion f Would the marching of an army 
into South Carolina, without the consent of her 
people, and with hostile intent toward them, be 
'invasion?'/ certainly think it would, and it 
tvoidd be 'coercion' also, if South Carolinians 
were forced to submit." 

Is not this exactly what he did to South 
Carolina and to all the other Southern states? 
And is it not true that this "gravest of crimes," 
committed by him without the authority of Con- 
gress or any legal right, was the sole excuse why 
the Southern people went to war? 

We know that such is the fact, and surely 
no further authorities can be necessary to show 
that the South ivas right on both of the only 
two questions involved in the war, and, if it had 
not resisted and fought under the circumstances 
in which it ivas placed, it would have been eter- 
nally disgraced." 

THE FINAL INQUIRY. 

We can only state, and without discussing at 
all, our last inquiry, which is : — 

4. Which side conducted itself the better 
and according to the rules of civilized warfare 
pending the conflict? 

With the notoriously infamous records of 
the conduct of Sheridan, Hunter and Milroy 
in the valley (to say nothing of how far Grant 
participated in that conduct) ; of that of Pope 
and Steinwehr in Piedmont, Va. ; of that of 
Butler in Norfolk and New Orleans, and, worse 
than all, of the confessed vandalism of Sher- 
man on his "march to the sea," together with 
the burning of Atlanta and Columbia, the last 
stimulated and encouraged by Halleck, the chief 
of staff of the armies of the Union; and con- 
trast all this with the humane order of General 
Lee on his campaign of invasion into Penn- 
sylvania and the conduct of his army in that 
campaign, and there can be but one answer to 
this inquiry. That answer is that the South did 
right, and that the North did wrong. 

"God holds the scales of justice; 

He will measure praise and blame; 
And the South will stand the verdict 

And will stand it without shame." 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



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WORDS OF JFFERSON DAVIS. 



What he Said in Speech of Resignation from United 
States Senate. 

While Jefferson Davis deplored the threat- 
ened disruption of the Union between the states 
and was earnest in his plea for such legislation 
as would perpetuate it, he said in his speech of 
resignation from the United States senate : — 

"It is known to senators who have served 
with me here that I have for many years advo- 



cated as an essential attribute of state sover- 
eignty the right of a state to secede from the 
Union. Therefore, if I had not believed there 
was justifiable cause, if I had thought that 
Mississippi was acting without sufficient pro- 
vocation or without an existing necessity, I 
should still, under my theory of government, 
because of my allegiance to the state of which 
I am a citizen, have been bound by her action. 
I, however, mav be permitted to say that I 
think she has justifiable cause, and I approve 
her act." 



GRAND LETTER TO GENERAL J. B. 

BY A COMRADE. 



POLLEY, 



On Fame's Eternal Camping Ground — Visit of Confederate Soldier to Battlefield. 



It is seldom that language is more effectively 
used in tracing the pathetic scenes of war than 
is the case with the following communication 
here reproduced: — 

Petersburg,. Ya., June 2, 1907. — Dear Joe, 
Floresville, Texas : You were right. To visit 
the spwts where, forty and odd years ago 
you and I were units of a mighty force in arms 
that made history which will last so long as 
there remain recorded annals among men, is a 
wanton destruction of ideals in memory which 
had grown with us to be "sacred sanctuaries." 

The face of all nature has changed. Even 
around this historic sjx)t the scars of war — and 
you know how deep and distinctive they were 
in and about this city — have been obliterated, 
and the gardener's plow turns the glebe once 
torn by shot and shell. 

They are raising turnips and "sich," dear 
Joe, on the sacred ground which, in the distant 
past, lapped the blood of our comrades, com- 
panions and friends — gone to fertilize truck 
for the New York markets are the bones of our 
martyrs. A thrifty soul from Pennsylvania — 
the immigrant the South invites — has enclosed 
the crater hallowed in history as a spot where 
Americans battled most desperately; a spot 
where thousands went down to immortal glorv-. 
There, dear Joe, the Pennsylvanian, the immi- 
grant aforesaid, has fenced in, and charges those 
who once there contended 25 cents to see a vine 
and weed grown "hole in the ground." An old 
A. N. V. man of the Washington artillery com- 
ments on this tril)ute as a more wanton charge 
than Grant made on Petersburg. The joke fell 
o-n dull, unsympathetic ears, and the reply 



marked the ethical standard of the modern buc- 
caneer. "Two bits, please," was all he said. 

"Wliy should we complain?" as my friend 
from Louisiana observed. "He is getting even 
for what we did to him or his in the long ago."' 
And from time past came that camp song of 
1863 when we were floating back from Gettys- 
burg : — 

"Old Bob Lee's heel is on thy shore, 

Pennsylvane, my Pennsylvane; 
His hand is at thy stable door, 

Pennsylvane, my Pennsylvane. 
You won't see your old boss no more, 
We'll ride him till his back is sore. 
An' then come back an' git some more, 
Pennsylvane, my Pennsylvane." 

We left him, with his "two bits, please," ring- 
ing in our ears, and I ruminated of the time 
when 3'ou and I and all of us helped make the 
hole from which modem commercialism draws 
its thousands. 

Great God, Joe, is civilization really the hum- 
bug it seems and acts? 

You remember — of course you do — when we 
lay in line of battle not far from where these 
lines are penned, waiting the issue of Mahone's 
expulsion of the army. I can hear in memory 
the crash of musketry, the boom of cannon and 
the dear old rebel yell which told that all was 
well. How grandly the Virginians and North 
Carolinians fought that day ! Around and near 
us, in the houses and caves, women and old men 
and children, with tear-stained and pallid 
cheeks, anxious eyes, with eager expression, 
prayed for victory, and when word came that 
"God and the brave armv of Northern Vir- 



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ginia had again triumplied" their cheers and 
handclaps were mingled with our yells. 

And forty and odd years after, this picture 
of the past, the history in the making, is rudely 
disturbed by the money changer's charge to see 
the spot we created and consecrated to the im- 
mortals ! 

After this, as you said in your cold philoso- 
phy, we go to church and "thank God we are 
not as other men." 

If these things be true — and they do not 
seem, for I saw them- — "other men" should be 
thankful they are not as we. 

All along, from Appomattox river to Five 
Forks, I saw nothing to remind me of the past. 
As it is now the face of nature was not then. 
You remember, Joe, when we came to relieve 
Beauregard, who had fought a splendid fight 
and held off Grant's army for nearly two days 
with more than 20,000 men, how ladies and 
children crowded Sycamore street, sobbing and 
cheering that "Lee liad come at last." How they 
had ice water, bread and ham and coffee; how 
we lunched marching at quick step, for the bat- 
tle yet raged close into town ; how we saw the 
bodies of old citizens — among them Mr. Jarrott, 
mine host of that old-time noted hostelry which 
bore his name — killed defending their homes. 

All this came back to me, but I dared not 
fit the pictures to the present environment. 
Sycamore street — shot and shell-torn as you and 
I last saw it — has been modernized. Along the 
route we marched with Lee and Beauregard at 
our head — and in my mind's eye I see them 
now — is the trolley with its jingling bell and its 
track hum. Business houses line the way, and 
the Jarrott hotel, with its long portico and 
steps, has been demolished. On its site the "van- 
dals" have builded a railroad warehouse ! 

I found no spot that my memory knew. All 
those, dear Joe, so dear to our hearts, are no 
more. The market is a modern structure. Bol- 
lingbroke road has its name changed to con- 
form with modern ideas, and it is a "street" 
now. And — would you believe it? — "Tin Pot 
Alley" is but a dream, while "Jfaria Banks" has 
been converted into a peanut factory ! 

Over in Richmond the other day I found the 
old place on Franklin street where old man 
Talley had his "julep factory." What nectar was 
that, dear Joe, and in remembrance I called 
for one. It is Talley no more. The gentleman 
from A'irginia has been replaced by the "feller" 
from Massachusetts, and he knows no more of 
the secrets of a mint julep than a hog does of 
Rig Vida. I tasted the vile stuff, j)aid him. 
and went sadly down to Main. 

Opposite the Texas hospital there was a dance 
house. An exile from Kittscniff is running a 



clothing joint there now. I told him of the 
changes and the sadness thereof — to me. The 
answer seemed to echo the modern reply to all 
our plaints: "Veil, vat of it?" 

Gaines' Mill ! Forty-five years ago ! And in 
June, when nature was full garbed in "shim- 
mering green," as Bill Burgess was wont to put 
it when measurably full of stuff which Com- 
pany I, Ninth Georgia, sold us at $40 a quart- — 
when we had the price. There it was that Texas 
was reglorified. There Stonewall Jackson, trac- 
ing the line of advance and the point of as- 
sault, exclaimed : "The men who carried this 
place were soldiers indeed." We saw part of it 
in 1864, when Grant came at us at Hanover. 
The graves of our dead in '62 were in the apple 
orchard through which our breastworks ran in 
'64. 

And again Texas was there, keeping undim- 
med the honor of the Southland. 

Well, Joe, I couldn't find the place where 
we made history. Ivy had grown, covering with 
green tendrils the hallowed spots where sleep 
our heroes. Wild flowers bloom with luxuriance, 
but no billowing mound is there, and Gaines' 
Mill is a "tale that has been told." 

Shall we forget it and how it looked in '62 i 
Not while our poor memories hold a seat will 
young Warwick, the gallant Virginian, the 
adopted son of Texas, and his glorious end cease 
to be with us. Full on the enemy's breastwork, 
flag in hand, he fell, and crowned with his life 
his devotion to duty. But the spot which drank 
his heart's blood no one can trace, for remorse- 
less time and man, remorseless man, have ob- 
literated all but the rudest outlines of the field 
of that grand and bloody contest. 

And so, dear Joe, it is everywhere. At Darby- 
town, where I pulled you out when you were 
shot nigh unto death, there isn't a sign of where 
we fought. Tangled thickets, deep ravines wash- 
ed by forty years' rains, have marked out all 
resemblance to the place where war, in Sher- 
man's definition in its fullest, was for a brief 
period. But somewhere there the bones of 
scores of Texans have mingled with the dust, 
and in the far-off l^lississippi General Gregg's 
ashes testify to the fact tliat upon the unrecog- 
nizable hills and valleys around Darbytown 
there was a short but deeply bloody contest, in 
which honor alone was saved. And Joe, dear 
friend, in all these years, with your limp and 
one lone foot, you carry the testimony of duty 
done on that memorable field. But, old fellow, 
I couldn't find the spot nor the ravine through 
which we brought you back. Somewhere in the 
wilderness of growth, or in the plowed fields 
thereabouts, was history made. 

It is .sad. tearful, but true. 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



171 



But, old fellow, there was one thing I found, 
just as you said I would. The glorious, hospi- 
table, warm-hearted Virginian is here, and, like 
the everlasting hills of the state, will bloom 
bright always. 

God bless him and her! 

No change, dear Joe. Same warm hand- 
shake, same sunny smile. "We are poor," said 
they to me, "but it is the poverty of material 
things only. Our hearts are as rich in love for 
you as when we teemed in wealth, and our 
hearthstones as welcome as when prosperity 
beamed." 

And all this is true. I found always and 
everywhere the warmest greetings, and will 
carrv home and to my grave a veneration and 
a love for Virginia and the Virginians which 
will never dim until my heart is as cold as death 
can make it. 

This and such people as these is what keeps 
our hold upon our faith in God and in our 
fellow men. Somewhere, old fellow, the South's 
bugles will blow and the camp fires be alight 
for us ; somewhere our comrades are awaiting 
our coming. We can tell them of changed hills 
and dales; of battlefields they would not know 
again ; of wood-grown trenches and brier-tan- 
gled redoubts. And then, thank God, we can 
say the Virginian's heart beats as wannly as 
it thrilled in the olden day. 

J. H. COSGROVE, 

Company C, Fourth Te.xas, Hood's Brigade, 
Shreveport, La. 



"A Lost Cause!" If lost, it was false; if 
true, it was not lost. If the Cause is lost, the 
Constitution is lost; the Union defined by it is 
lost; the liberty of the States and the people, 
which they both at first and for half a century 
guarded, is lost." 



HONORING THE MEMORY OF THE 
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. 



{From the Baltimore Sun.) 

From Marathon to Port Arthur, in all the 
annaU of military achievement, there have 
been no braver soldier.s than the men who wore 
the Southern gray. They were led by able gen- 
erals, for the military authorities of other na- 
tions, as well as our own, have accorded the 
Confederate leaders a place among the great 
commanders of |the world. Henderson, the 
British authority, ranks Stonewall Jnckson as 
the most original military genius of modern 



times, and Lord Wolseley gives Lee a place with 
Marlborough and Wellington as "one of the 
three greatest captains of the English-speakiag 
race." 

But their qualities of leadership and mili- 
tary genius would have been ineffective if they 
had not been enthusiastically supported by 
thousands of private soldiers and minor offi- 
cers as brave as the "Old Guard" of Napoleon. 
The Confederate soldier endured hardships that 
were unknown to the men who had a wealthy 
and stable government to provide them with 
food, clothes, arms and ammunition. The Con- 
federacy was indeed a "storm-cradled nation," 
born in the heat of tremendous conflict, never 
to see one hour of peace or to be allowed to 
build up a civil government that would permit 
production sufficient even to properly support 
an army. 

No material rewards tempted the Confederate 
to enlist. He was not a mercenary, for his pay 
was mostly in promises, and even his food sup- 
ply was precarious and uncertain. He received 
no large money bounty, and often furnished his 
own uniform, his own arms and his own mount. 
Only devotion to his principles, love of his 
State and home and faith in his leaders could 
have enabled him to carry on the unequal strug- 
gle for four long years. They were titanic 
years, crowded with history. And though often 
he had to go hungry and his uniform was re- 
duced to rags, the Confederate fousrht on with 
a courage that nothing could daunt and a dar- 
ing that snatched victory after victory from the 
very jaws of defeat. 

And when the end came at Appomattox the 
Confederate tramped back to his ruined home, 
and with bare hands, in the ashes of defeat, 
began to build up the structure of a new civil- 
ization. He has made the rebuilding of the 
South the wonder of the world, and in a single 
generation has brought wealth, prosperity and a 
vast new empire out of that chaos of war and 
desolation. Most of those who restored the 
South are now in their graves, close by those 
who fell fighting beside them on the battlefield. 
They are one in honor and memory. 

"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's 
country," and the brave men who laid down 
their lives for the South they loved are remem- 
bered with a tenderness and devotion that vic- 
tory could never win. The willow that waves 
over their graves is more sacred than the laurel 
wreath that any conqueror ever wore. The 
men and women of the South place on their 
graves the blossoms of spring, fresh as the rec- 
ollection of their deeds, inspiring in their 



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bravery, fragrant as the rich memory of their 
courage and devotion. 

Stoop, angels, liither from the skies! 

There is no holier ground 
Tlian where defeated Valor lies 

By mourning Beauty crowned. 



THE THIN GRAY LINE. 

Thinner with every passing year; 
Fewer at roll call answering '"Here" — 
There's a gap today where none replieg 

And the 8eva-e;int misscj a Coat of (iray. 
While the Captain looking with misty eyes, 
Bows his head as he turns away; 
None to answer — and he knows why 
A? the thin Gray Line goes marching by. 

Thinner with everj' passing year; 
Fewer at roll call answering "Here" — 
One by one where the shadows creep. 

Under the sod for which they fought — 
One by one they mnst fall asleep 

\Vhere Love and the lilies a couch have 
wrought ; 
And the southwind carries a comrade's sigh 
As the thin Gray Line goes marching by. 

One by one — from the year's Gray toll 
The line thins out as the war drums roll; 
One by one — and they march away 

Where Lee and his legions keep the guard ; 
One by one — and the Coat of Gray 

Eest<; where the roses crown the sward ; 
Yet from the street comes a ringing cry 
As the thin Gray Line goes marching by. 

Thinner with every passing year; 
Fewer at roll call answering "Here" — 

And the day is ahead when the South shall 
weep 
And turn to the sod where her heroes sleep 
As the grizzled Sergeant calls in vain — 
Calls where the Silence settles deep 

Around dim mounds on hill and plain ; 
And "Dixie" turns to a saddened sigh 
Where the Thin Line passed as a dream must 
die. 
— Grantland Rice, in Nashville Tennesseean. 



HE WAS A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. 

What grander title can be written beneath 
any name? It is a badge of distinction for the 
living, a sublime apotheosis to the immortal 
dead, for it embodies glory, honor, chivalry, and 
all the peerless graces of a stainless knighthood. 



Though he fought in the trenches, or stormed 
the heights, or followed his niatchle.-s leaders 
before the enemy's remorseless guns, the Con- 
federate soldier was at all times a brave and 
kindly gentleman. The deeds of other heroes 
seem insignificant when his descendants read 
of Pickett's charge and Sabine Pass and Rich- 
mond's seven days' crucifixion. He was a peer- 
less man, who "fought for principle, without 
money and without price — a man who fed the 
altar of liberty with the wreck of home and laid 
his Isaac daily in the sacrificial fire. 

Let us keep his empty gun, for its rusty bar- 
rel threw a shot that rang around the world. 
Let us preserve his old canteen, for it is the sa- 
cred cup — the Holy Grail — of the thorn-crown- 
ed martyr-i of the Smit'i. 

Death is rapidly thinning the ranks of the 
"Man in Gray," but his star of glory shines 
brighter as it rises higher in the zenith of the 
ages. It is a pure constellation that will always 
lead men of the world to the birthplace of the 
"Lost Cause," even as the Star of Bethlehem 
lights forever the far Judean hills. 

o 

Wlien we write upon his tomb, "He Was a 
Confederate Soldier," we say all that glory 
claims or fame desires for we declare that he 
has borne a stainless record with immortality. 

"And we dream that he is still in that shadowy 

region. 

Where the dead form their ranks at the war 

drummer's sign, 

Rides on as of old down the length of the legion. 

And his war cry is 'Forward,' along the whole 



Ime ! 



-Mary Hunt Affleck. 



Written on the back of a $500 Confederate 
hill by Major S. A. Jonas, Chief Engineer on 
staff of General Stephen D. Lee. 

THE OLD CONFEDERATE BILlJ. 

Representing nothing on God's earth now. 

And naught in the water below it — 
As a pledge of the nation that's dead and gone, 

Keep it, dear friend, and show it. 

Show it to those who will lend an ear 

To the tale this paper can tell 
Of liberty born of the patriot's dream — 

Of the storm-cradled nation that fell. 

Too poor to possess the precious ores. 
And too much of a stranger to borrow, 

We issued today our promise to pay, 
.\nd hoped to redeem on the morrow. 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



173 



The days wore on and weeks became years, 

But our coffers were empty still; 
Coin was so rare that the treasury quaked 

If a dollar should drop in the till. 

But the faith that was in us was strong indeed, 

And our poverty well discerned; 
And those little checks represented the pay 

That our suffering volunteers earned. 

We knew it had hardly a value in gold. 
Yet as gold our soldiers received it ; 

It gazed in our eyes with a promise to pay, 
And each patriot soldier believed it. 

But our boys thought little of price or pay. 

Or the bills that were overdue; 
They knew if it brought us bread today — 

It was the best our poor country could do. 

Keep it — it tells our story all over. 
From the birth of its dream to the last. 

Modest and born of the angel Hope, _ 
Like the hope of success it pas.sed. 



WHAT WOMEN DID TO HELP BUILD 

HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 

MONUMENT. 

(Houston Chronicle.) 

The money necessary to pay the last dollar 
on the Hood's Brigade monument at Austin has 
been raised and is in the bank. The time 
withi ■■ '.vhich the funds necessary to erect tliat 
monument has been raised sets a pace which 
will be hard to beat and makes a record whieli 
will long stand and proves the mettle of Captain 
F. B. Chilton. President of Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade Monument Committee. 

Many generous men helped the good work, 
but the last thousand dollars was raised, in t! e 
main, by the unselfish, earnest efforts of Texas 
women. Ijcd by the President of the United 
Daughters of the Confederacy, the good women 
set apart August 3 as a day for united effort. 
and, as they always do, went about the task 
with enthusiasm, earnestness and confidence, 
and achieved it and more. 

In all history, ancient or modern, there is no 
record of devotion to conviction and noble sen- 
timent and tender memories equal to that the 
women of the South have made in the last half 
century. Their fortitude, their fidelity, tlieir 
heroic endurance of privation and suffering 
during the war challenged the admiration of 
the world ; but then they were helped and 
cheered by the hope of success ; but defeat and 
disaster and destruction of every hope did not 



conquer their indomitable spirit. They have 
kept ceaseless vigil by the tomb of a buried na- 
tion; they have chanted ceaseless paeans of 
praise for their deathless dead and their heroic 
living defenders; they have preserved many 
thousands of mute memorials of the glory of 
the deeds of their countrymen ; they have gath- 
ered treasures of eternal truth for the use of 
future historians; they have caused to be erect- 
ed homes and retieats for i!'e weary, ■■'in ;pi ■ 
poverty-stricken veterans of a cause hallowed by 
matchless devotion and glorious achievement, 
and they have builded on many a slope and hill- 
side towering monuments which will testify to 
generations yet unborn of the heroi,«m of South- 
ern soldiers and the fidelity, the love and the 
consecrated service of Southern women. 



BRAVE MEN OF HOOD'S BRIGADE. 

BY GEN. A. T. MONROE. 

On proud Virginia's bleeding breast. 
How oft their marching feet have pressed, 
With daring steps, that knew no rest. 
Brave men of "'Hood's Brigade." 

Her every vale and mountain high, 
Has echoed back their battle cry. 
That told of death or victory, 

Brave men of "Hood's Brigade." 

They halted not to question why ; 
Their judgment was to do or die. 
And fighting was their sole reply. 

Brave men of "Hood's Brigade." 

Their battles fought and victories won. 
Their deeds of glory, like the sun. 
In every clime and land are known. 
Brave men of "Hood's Brigade." 

Their names and deeds shall live on high ; 

They now belong to history. 

And like their fame shall never die. 

Brave men of "Hood's Brigade." 
Crockett, Texas. 



CONFEDERATE VALOR 

Has Never Been, and Will Never Be Matched 
on This Earth. 

When the gloom of defeat settled over the two 
small armies that had been maintaining, at 
fearful odds, the separate nationality of the 
Confederacy against the combined forces of a 
worj 1 in arii's. inarshaled inirler tl>i' I'nion 
banners, nothing was left to these gallant, but 
weakened and decimated bands but the glory of 



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tlieir achievements and the imperishahle honor 
of huroic bravery and intrepidity. The surviv- 
ing soldiers of the Confederacy could i)roudly 
point to tlie brilliant galaxy of their leaders 
and, touching their own l)reasts, chaHenge the 
world to show an army in the history of the an- 
nals of war surpassing the armies of the Con- 
federacy in indomitable courage, persistent in- 
trepidity and heroic achievements. 

Their laurels were embalmed in the gratitude 
and admiration of the women of the Southern 
States, for its men, without exception, were 
com] onent parts of those armies. The«e lau- 
rels graced the secret altars, on which they wor- 
shiped, and garlanded the graves of their he- 
roic dead, who w-ere buried where they fell, in 
the deep tangled wildwood of the wilderness, in 
the mountain-bound and silent valleys, on the 
border of the flowing streams, their only lullaby 
the music of the leaves above the waving grass 
on their scant graves. They have no marble to 
commemorate their memories. Thermopylffi 
was the only monument over the graves of Le- 
onidas and his immortal band of Spartans. The 
only monument of these dead heroes of the Con- 
federacy is the battle names where victory 
perched u])on their bullet-riddled and tattered 
banners. Their memories were entombed in the 
hearts of their surviving comrades and in the 
pride of their offspring in the glory of their an- 
cestors. Even their gallant foes boasted of their 
own valor in withstanding and finally wearing 
away the splendid armies of the Confederacy. 
If there was at any time any question about a 



man's courage, the fact that he was a Confed- 
erate soldier was the only mention necessary to 
disjiel such a doubt. 

The renown of these armies is as dear to every 
survivor who served in any of them, from the 
memory of Gen. Lee down to the last ragged 
Confederate soldier^ as their own life. 

The Confederacy is not now "a cause," it is 
a memory — a sentiment, one of the dearest and 
holiest that possesses the hearts of its survivors. 
It may be an idol, but no man can, with vandal 
hand, tear down one of these idols or deface its 
stalwart manliness without incurring the con- 
demnation of every man that loved the Confed- 
eracy. They desired so much to leave the mem- 
ory of the gallantry of the armies of the Confed- 
eracy untarnished to those who come after them, 
so that if patriotic occasion demanded the serv- 
ices of this generation of Southern youth they 
might be animated by the recollection that their 
fathers went unflinching through the ordeals of 
fire. 

Their dead need no monuments to perpetuate 
their memories; their living and their dead need 
no cliampion to do battle in behalf of the glories 
of their achievements. Their deeds are their 
champions. The sacred spots of their fallen 
brave attest their imperishable renown. They 
are enshrined in the memories of all their coun- 
trymen, from the St. Croix Eiver to the Rio 
Grande, from the Atlantic to tlie Pacific Coast, 
as examples of American manhood, indomitable 
endurance, inexorable intrepidity and untarnish- 
able honor. 



"LEE TO THE REAR." 

Hood's Tex.'^s Brigade in the Battle of The Wilderness, May 6, 1864. 



Heavy fighting had been going on for two 
days at the Wilderness when Longstreet's Corjis 
arrived on the firing line, having made a forced 
march from Gordonsville, reaching the battle- 
field about sunrise the morning of May (i, 1864. 

The Texas Brigade was in an open field about 
300 yards from the Federal lines, when General 
Ijce, mounted on Traveler, rode up and gave 
his orders to General Gregg, the Brigade Com- 
mander, saying: 

"The Texas Brigade has always driven the 
enemy back, and I expect them to do it again 
today." 

General Gregg at once shouted : 
"The eyes of General Lee are upon you ! For- 
ward, Texas Brigade!" 



Just then General Lee rode in front of the 
brigade as if intending to lead the charge, but 
a shout went up : "Lee to the rear." A number 
of soldiers sprang from the ranks and seized the 
reins of his horse. About this time the Federals 
were opening a galling fire upon the Texans, a 
number of whom had been killed and wounded 
before they had fired a shot. Two lines of the 
enemy were in front of the Texas Brigade, while 
across the plank road stood another line. The 
storm of battle became terrific. The Texas Brig- 
ade was without support on its right and left, 
but a hot fire was poured into its ranks both 
from front and from flank. The Texas Brigade 
did not disappoint General Lee's exjiectations, 
for they captured the important salient and 
held it, but they bought it at a fearful sacrifice. 



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They went into action with about 800, rank and 
file, and lost over 500 killed and wounded. 

Colonel Walter Taylor, who was Adjutant 
General upon the staff of Robert E. Lee during 
the entire war, in his book, "General Lee, His 
Campaigns in Virginia," on page 234, says: 
"Before Longstreet's command had reached the 
scene, other troops had given away and retired 
in disorder. Matters looked critical, indeed. The 
men were going to the rear in a stream when 
General Ijongstreet arrived. General Lee was 
present as the troops moved into action. As 
they advanced, General Lee rode as if to lead 
the Texas Brigade, when there was a cry, 'Gen- 
eral Lee to the rear! General Lee to the rear I"" 
I recall especially one ^talwart fellow of swarthy 
complexion and earnest expression, who passed 
by the head of General Lee's horse as the troops 
advanced to the line of l)attle and cried out : 
'Go back, General Lee, this is no place for you : 
go back; we'll settle this.' " 

There has been some question recently about 
this incident, other troops claiming the honor 
instead of the Texas Brigade. It occurs to us 
that the above from Colonel Taylor of General 
Lee's staff, who was present and personally wit- 
nessed the affair, ought to have settled the mat- 
ter, but if anything further were needed, it is 
abundantly supplied by the following letter 
from Colonel E. J. Harding of the First Texas 
Eegiment, as gallant a soldier as ever waved a 
sword and who today is one of the honored cit- 
izens of Jackson, Miss. : 

"As we pressed forward, I never heard such 
a shout, as when we saw General Lee, mounted 
upon his splendid horse, appearing a warrior 
where e\ery god had si>t the sen), witli his lilit- 
tering staff in the wake^ the gates of the morn- 
ing at the instant opened, the sunlight glinted 
the tops of the virgin forest, revealed the gray 
smoke of the artillery. Men were falling, the 
air was rent with the thunder of cannon. Tlu' 
scene was at once beautiful from surrounding 
nature, and terrible in the wrath of men. W'.' 
were hurried into position. The left of the 
First Texas rested on the right of the Fourth, 
a small interval between them. Through this 
opening General Gregg rode and said in a \ouA 
voice that 'the eyes of General Lee were upon 
us, and would lead the charge.' Just then Gen- 
eral Lee rode into the same opening between 
the First and Fourth. I was on the left of the 
First and as General (irego- n-adi' <!',!■ mki'hijk-c- 
ment, I looked around and saw General Lee in 
ten feet of the spot where I was standing, mov- 
ing forward on his iron gray horse, Traveler. 
Bullets were flying, men were falling and every 
man knew that something terrible and desperate 



was at hand. I ran to General Lee and caught 
his horse by the bridle rein. About the same in- 
stant Whit Eandle caught the rein on the other 
side of the horse and Gross Lawrence raised his 
hand in the face of the horse as if to stop him. 
About six or eight men from both regiments 
rushed to General Lee for the same purpose, but 
all could not get hands on him. They formed 
a living barrier to stop his further progress. A 
simultaneous shout went up from every man 
who saw General Lee exposing himself. 'Go 
back. General Lee! Go back. General Lee! Lee 
to the rear!' and kept this up for some time. 
Traveler became restless and General Lee, with 
the tears streaming down his cheeks, patted 
him on his shoulder to quiet him and said : 
'Charge them then.' General Lee then rode to 
the right toward the top of the hill and General 
Gregg led the charge. I did not know Grace 
Darling. It may have been he who caught the 
other rein of the bridle or who raised his hand 
immediately in the face of the horse. It was a 
desperate moment and no time for remember- 
ing faces. I have heard of many men from 
other commands claiming to have been the 
actors in this scene. I had never mentioned my 
name in connection with this incident until 
twenty years afterward when brave Billy Barry 
of the Fourth Texas, now at Navasota, related 
to me the scene as he witnessed it, and asked me 
for my recollection of it. We remembered it 
alike. Captain Barry was shot down and wit- 
nessed the whole thing as he lay on the ground. 
Please communicate with him at Navasota. 

"General Gregg and I talked about this the 
evening after the battle. We both saw it alike. 
He told me that the act of the brigade would 
find a place in history. 

"The men who caught General Lee's horse are 
entitled to nothing more for this act than those 
who did not. Every man would have done so 
if he could. I have always spoken of it as the 
act of the Texas Brigade, feeling amply paid by 
being a member of Hood's Brigade. 

"At the unveiling of the Lee monument in 
Richmond, Va., I met a son of General Lee, and 
we talked about the incident. His father had 
spoken to him about it. General Lee said it 
brought tears to his eyes when he saw men will- 
ing to face death if he would go to a place of 
safety. 

"You asked for a sketch from 'start to finish.' 
I have given it accurately and truthfully. As 
it is to be historical, I will stand to history on 
this sketch. Your friend and comrade. 

R. J. Habding. 



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ANNUAL ADDRESS OF COLONEL 
R. J. HARDING, 

President of Hood's Texas Brigade Association, 

AT CORSICANA, TeXAS, ReUNION. 

Wednesday, June 28, VJOo. 

The following is the address of President J{. 
J. Harding, delivered before the meeting of 
Hood's Brigade in reunion yesterday : 

"Twenty-seven years ago Hood's Brigade As- 
sociation was magnificently entertained by the 
good people of this city. That sound jurist, 
grand soldier and perfect gentleman, Col. Wink- 
ler, was the chairman of the Entertainment 
Committee on that occasion. His daughter, 
Mrs. Morris, is chairman of the same commit- 
tee on this occasion. One year ago today we re- 
ceived royal entertainirent from our friends in 
the hospitable city of l-'.nuis. Since that time 
death has laid his hand heavily upon our ranks. 
Your Vice-President Plasters has answered the 
last roll call. Peace be with him. John Pinck- 
ney in his address carried you over all your 
marches under Lee and Longstreet. Little diil 
YOU think then before the end of another year 
the assassin's bullet would find lodgment in the 
body of this brave soldier, this splendid citizen, 
this useful man. A few more years, death from 
natural causes would have claimed his pure soul. 
We all hope the sod will rest lightly on his 
grave. I know that loving hands will see that 
iiowers are placed on his final resting place on 
the annual decoration day of soldiers' graves. 

"Fifteen others equally brave aud dear to us 
have crossed the river and are at rest. We also 
mourn the death of one, though not a member 
of the brigade, but always proud of its record. 
He was a member of General Longstreet's staff 
and had three brothers in the Fifth Texas Reg- 
iment. I refer to that brave soldier and Chris- 
tian gentleman. Major Thomas Goree. 

"If it was not customary for the Presiueiil 
of Hood's Texas Brigade " Association to say 
something on turning over the office to his suc- 
cessor, I would remain silent on this occasion. 
T am going to say a few words to you on sub- 
jects probably a little different from what you 
have been accustomed to hear. I am going to 
talk on historical lines. Bishop Capers said 
he thanked the Lord for history, he thanked 
Him espwially for Confederate history. Every 
Confederate soldier can stand on true Confed- 
erate history. If our opponents can't stand on 
theirs they must fall on it. I will state now that 
it is not my purpose to keep alive animosities or 
engender bad feeling between the sections. I 
disclaim any such intention absolutely. 



"1 wish to call your attention to a little ex- 
tract from a speech of General Shaw, com- 
mander of the Grand Army of the Republic, at 
a blue and gray reunion. 1 have never seen 
more cheek, gall, impudence, brass and false- 
hood in a few words. He was an invited guest. 
He said: 'The Confederacy passed into his- 
tory as a dead and gone effort to found a new 
nation on American soil, and its furled flag 
should have no place in public view or parade 
henceforth. There can be but one ideal Amer- 
ican citizenship, one stars and stripes, one bul- 
wark of future national glory, and one line of 
patriotic teachings for all and by all. In this 
view the keeping alive of sectional teachings as 
to the justice and rights of the cause of the 
South, in the hearts of the children is all out 
of order, unwise and unjust and utterly opposed 
lo the bond which the great Chieftain Lee sol- 
emnly bound the South in his final surrender. I 
deeply deplore all agencies of this sort, because 
in honor and in chivalric American manhood 
and womanhood nothing of this nature should 
hv taught or tolerated for an instant.' 

"Our flags must be hid, no more parades, no 
more reunions. Talk to your children about the 
war. Are you in line with Shaw? Then, his- 
tories are false and teach them no better. If he 
expects us to teach our children we were wrong, 
traitors and rebels, he is a fit subject for a fool's 
asylum. Does any man believe General Lee 
would have led an army for four years, fighting 
for a cause, and then bind them in surrender 
not to teach their children they thought they 
were right? I answer for every true Confed- 
erate soldier. No; and when he says Lee so 
l)oun<l us, to state mildly, he led. ,\nd if in- 
thinks the Confederate women are going to 
leach their children we were wrong, he is what 
Josh Billings would say, he is a natural born 
fool. I will make no apology for the Confed- 
erate soldier for what he did during the war, 
but will say for every true Confederate, the 
chief regret he has in the whole thing is we did 
not whip them. 

"I don't like these blue and irrav reunion-: 
something unpleasant always happens. The 
Yankees think they are conferring a favor by 
condescending to come down South and be en- 
tertained. The quickest way to stop sectional 
feeling is to let each other alone. For these 
meetings to be of any force or effect one side 
must say it was wrong. If the blue was right, 
the gray was wrong, and we are never going to 
admit it. We are as far apart in what we 
fought for as we ever were, that is, a= far as 
Boston is from heaven. No one wishes any more 
strife and dissentions, but we have never given 



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up our right to think as we please from our 
viewpoint, and the Confederate women, God 
bless them, are going to talk as they please and 
teach their children the truth, notwithstanding 
General Shaw and his Grand Army of the Re- 
public. 

"You have been told ol'lcn that Abr Liiieol'i 
was going to be good and kind to the South if 
he had not been assassinated. This is a big 
guess. There is no way of judging tlie future bur 
by the past. I ask each one of you to point out 
one act of kindness of Abe Lincoln to the South 
that will warrant you in saying or believing that 
he was going to be kind to the South. It is a 
great misfortune for anyone to be assassinated. 
I am opposed to it everywhere and under all 
circumstances. Any man who has it in his 
power to prevent crime and does not do it is 
as guilty as the perpetrator of the criminal act. 
When Burnside stood on Stafford Heights in 
command of the most magnificent army that 
was ever assembled on this continent, 150,000 
men and 300 pieces of artillery, telegraphed to 
Lincoln that he was meeting with stubborn 
op])osition in crossing the l,'ii|)i>M!iiiniiocl< !!i\('v. 
Lincoln ordered him to shell the town. Burn- 
side telegraphed the town was full of women 
and children and non-combatants. His order 
was to shell the town, and the old city was 
knocked into brick dust and laid in ashes. You 
remember the two signal guns that fired that 
morning at 2 o'clock, telling you that Burn- 
side was moving. You remember the wo- 
men and the children came flying out 
of the city that December niorninc. The 
women with nothing but children and the chil- 
dren with nothing but women. Nothing to_eat, 
no bed, no shelter. I remember you fasted and 
had your rations issued to the refugees. When 
Sheridan was ordered to devastate the valley of 
Virginia so that a crow could not fly over ^t 
without carrying his rations, Lincoln thanked 
him for doing so well. He destroyed 2,500 
homes. When Sheridan made that march from 
Vicksburg to Meridian he boasted that he had 
destroyed 2,000 homes. When he made the 
march from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga., he 
boasted again that he had destroyed $98,000,000 
worth of property and appropriated $3,000,000. 
None of this was war necessity, but meanness 
begot of hell-born hate. Lincoln telegraphed 
the thanks of a nation. I am going to mention 
now the lowest and meanest thing that any man 
has ever done since the building of the world. 
When Lincoln issued his emancipation procla- 
mation, as mean a man as Seward is said to 
have been, and a lifelong abolitionist, stood 
appalled at the enormity of the act, and sair] : 



"Mr. Lincoln, have you considered the danger 
to the women and children of the South, if you 
turn 4,000,000 slaves loose on them while all the 
men are on the figliting line?' Lincoln said: 
'The time has come for the negro of the South 
to sliow his hand.' Show his iiand to do what? 
There were only white women and children, 
and negroes. Now what did he mean by the ne- 
groes showing their hands? It could have but 
one meaning. He is said to have believed if 
this worked as he thought, the soldiers would 
leave the army, and go to protect their families. 
Beast Butler's order No. 28 about the ladies of 
New Orleans could not be compared to it in 
infamy. They could protect themselves by not 
insulting Butler's soldiers, but under Lincoln's 
proclamation they were absolutely helpless. We 
owe the old ante-bellum negro an everlasting 
debt of gratitude for his conduct, his fidelity, 
his obedience to the women and children and 
our families while we were in the army. They 
had been taught obedience always and practiced 
it until the miserable carpetbagger and the still 
worse scallawag got among them and made them 
believe we were their enemies so that they could 
further their own interest in being foisted into 
office. 

I wish to correct that impression that has 
gone over the Southern country that Missis- 
sippi has in her Hall of Fame the portrait of 
A. Lincoln. W^e have in our capitol a Hall of 
Fame in which the portraits of the famous men 
of Mississippi are kept and under the charge of 
the historian, and keeper of archives. In one 
of his exuberant moods he imagined he was 
called upon to do the reconciliation act, wrote 
to Bob Lincoln for his father's portrait. It 
came by return mail. The young man was no- 
tified not to put it in the Hall of Fame. We 
would never let such an insult be passed on 
the memories of such orators as Prentiss and 
Lamar, such Jurists as George, Harris and 
Campbell, such soldiers as Wirt Adams, Walthal 
and Stephen D. Lee, and such a patriot and 
statesman as Jefferson Davis. Mississippi's sons 
will do their duty. If Massachusetts, PeniLsyl- 
vania, Kansas and the worst of the South-hat- 
ing states will put Jefferson Davis' portrait in 
their halls of fame, we will then begin to con- 
sider putting A. Lincoln's in Mississippi's Hall 
of Fame, but the face must always be to the 
wall. 

If any one says Lincoln was going to be kind 
to the South, look back at our Southern coun- 
try at the close of the war, that Lincoln made 
on it. Homes and every means of making a 
support for your families destroyed, everything 
of value stolen. Your mothers, wives and sisters 
and children suffering for life's necessities, and 



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insulted by foreign hirelings and Yankees ; want 
and poverty everywhere. Your hope of salva- 
tion almost ground out of you under the iron 
heel of the military boot. Can you stare this 
stubborn fact in the face and say you feel to- 
wards them as if they had never done these 
things. Then you can say I have forgiven them, 
and not till then. We are told Grant was good 
to the South. He gave General Lee such good 
terms of surrender. He could give no less. The 
same terms that have been given to every army 
that surrendered in the field. He was so pleased 
when correspondence with Lee began that he 
actually took a drink. One of Grant's General.* 
said something about terms, and Grant said: 
"Damn the terms; get their guns." No man 
ever said more in a half dozen words. They had 
been trying four years to make four and a half 
Yankees whip one Confederate, and he knew 
glorious General Gordon had his men in line 
to cut through Sheridan's lines. No wonder he 
made the reply he did. He felt it. Grant was 
in command of the army and was all powerful. 
Stanton ordered the arrest and imprJ<onii;eiit 
of General l.ice. Grant defied Sinnt<);i niid 
would not let General Lee be molested, the only 
time he defied politicians. He could have made 
reconstruction less of the hell it was. He was 
President from 1868 to 1876. Never until the 
last year of his term did he interfere with the 
rogues and villains that were running the recon- 
struction mill. He could have stopped it at 
any point he wished. Sherman is said to have 
been the meanest man in the Yankee army. I 
am going to dispute it. There is this difference 
between Grant and Shernuin. Sheriiiiin wns 
mean while we had guns in our hands ; Grant 
let meanness be done after we had surrendered. 
I am not going to try to describe the horrors of 
reconstruction. You imagine a hell according 
to the Baptist construction of it and you will 
have it. 

When Grant was ordered by Lincoln to take 
command of the Army of the Potomac, he de- 
clined, and never until Lincoln agreed to keep 
the army up to a certain standard did he con- 
sent to command it; 140,000 men, nearly three 
times as many men as Lee had. And it must 
be kept up. If General Lee lost any of his men 
they could not be replaced, but not so with 
Grant. He said now I can lose four to his one 
and defeat him. Up to the crossing of the James 
River, we had killed and wounded more men 
that Lee had commenced with. Including Beast 
Butler and Burnside, Grant received more rein- 
forcements than Lee had in the beginning of the 
campaign. He could have reached City Point 
without the loss of a man. If Lee's army had 



been slaughtered and barbecued. Grant's army 
could have eaten them up in one month. Grant 
stopped the exchange of prisoners and in giving 
his reasons therefor, paid the Confederate sol- 
dier a fine compliment. He said when a Yankee 
soldier was exchanged he went home and was 
never seen in the army again. If a rebel sol- 
dier was exchanged he went right into the army 
again and went to fighting. That is the differ- 
ence between a man fighting for a principle and 
one fighting for thirteen dollars a month. They 
say we starved their prisoners when we had an 
abundance of rations. Stanton's figures show 
12 per cent, of our men died in Yankee prisons 
and 9 per cent, of Yankees died in our prisons. 
In Beast Butler's book, page 610, he says Yan- 
kee soldiers could not live on the Confederate 
soldiers' rations. He examined several haver- 
sacks taken from Confederate prisoners around 
Petersburg. He was hunting for spoons. 

The assassination of McKinley was a great 
misfortune to the South. He it was who said, 
"The time has come for the National Govern- 
ment to take care of the Confederate graves." 
We of the South had paid our part of the five 
billion dollars in pensions to feed the cripples 
we made for the Yankees, and now they wish 
to compensate by taking care of our dead men's 
graves. Our dead men are getting along very 
well, having a quiet time. Suppose one of you 
had been killed, how would you like to raise 
your head above the ground and see a Yankee 
scratching grass over your grave. You would 
get right up and whip him again. McKinley 
inaugurated the Spanish war. Our boys looked 
like they would break their backs going to the 
army. Had an invitation to go. 

I remember when we were fighting Yankees, 
Spain was the only friend we had on earth. She 
recognized our independence. It was base in- 
gratitude to help the Yankees whip our only 
friend. Great battles reported — two killed and 
six scared to death. The son of our glorious 
Hood got up a regiment of immunes. Anyone 
eligible that had ever had a contagious disease, 
yellow fever, smallpox, mumps or itch. Missis- 
sippi sent her quota promptly and McKinley in- 
sulted them by appointing the most despised ne- 
gro in the State — John LjTich — their paymas- 
ter. Our boys would never receive their pay 
from him. 

I will say nothing about Teddy, except that 
he is rather coon-flavored. He seems to be try- 
ing to reform. 

The people of the North when speaking of the 
heads of their government during the war, say 
"Lincoln and Grant." When speaking of the 
South, always say 'Huee and Jackson." They 



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should say Davis and Lee. They try to have 
Jeff Davis' name dropped from history. They 
will never do it in the Sonth. They talk often 
about brotherly love. We must not say harsh 
things. They must stop first. We feel that we 
are the aggrieved party. They don't like to hear 
us mention the fight in which it took 4 1-2 Yan- 
kees 4 years to whip one Confederate. That 
grates on their nerves. A short time ago a Yan- 
kee soldier died in Minneapolis. Some Con- 
federate soldiers sent some flowers to be placed 
on his grave. They were returned by the Yan- 
kee post to which he belonged. A short time 
ago a lot of Democratic Yankees refused to 
march in a Democratic procession in Xcv Y^rk 
because some Confederate soldiers were going to 
take part in the procession. We are exp)ected 
to forgive and forget our enemies for all the 
cruel acts they heaped on us. We are taught by 
the Good Book to forgive is divine. This is a 
matter for every one's judgment and conscience 
to consider. I am going to forgive mv enemies, 
after awhile, but I am not going to be in any 
undignified hurry about it Chronic reconcilers 
who are over-hasty to forgive their enemies, are 
quick to forget them. But to forget, then, in- 
deed are our minds gone. If all the water that 
ever flowed down old Lethe River was drunk 
by one man it would not cause him to forget the 
deeds done in one day of reconstruction. 

It would be improper for any to talk to old 



Confederate soldiers without saying something 
about the Confederate women. I wish I could 
say of them as I feel towards them. It would 
bankrupt my little store of English. The Con- 
federate women deserve a large share of your 
glory. You had to do when you thought of the 
woman at home. She cheered you as vou went 
to the war. You never did a brave and noble 
act that you did not have some woman in your 
mind. She was your inspiration to do or die, 
and when the sun went down at Appomattoi 
you turned your faces to the places where your 
homes once were, you almost halted, saying, 
"What have I to go to ?" Unable to provide for 
loved ones, no home, no hope, ever3-thing gone, 
defeated. You were dra\s-n forward as by a 
magnet till you came in sight of Confederate 
women. They met you as though you were the 
conquering hero instead of the defeated, and 
ever since she has been your guiding star of 
hope and ambition to do again. She shared 
your povert}- in uncomplaining and cheerful 
silence, and gave you everv a>ri>t;infe of which 
she was capable. God bless the Confederate 
women and their children. 

Comrades, it is evening with us, we will walk 
a few more beats, then taps. I hope you will 
be on time at reveille on resurrection mom, and 
when you hand in your final account, I hope it 
will show more credits than debits. I wish for 
each one of you the choicest blessings of heaven. 



A "SURE ENOUGH" UN-RECONSTRUCTED OF 1865. 



O, I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL. 

BY KAJOB IN'XIS EAMWLPH. 

Oh, I'm a good old rebel 

Xow, thafs just what I am : 
For the "Pair Land of Freedom" 

I do not care a d ; 

I'm glad I fit against it, 

I only wish we'd won; 
And I don't want no pardon 

For anything I done. 

I hates the Constitution, 

This Great EepubHc too; 
I hates the Freedman'sBuro 

In uniforms of blue; 
I hates the nasty eagle. 

With aU his brags an fuss; 
The bumin', thievin' Yankees, 

I hates them wuss and wubs. 



I hat^ the whole Yankee nation 

And everything they do, 
I hates the Declaration 

Of Independence, too; 
I hates the Glorious Union — 

'Tis dripping with our blood — 
I hates the striped banner, 

I fit it aU I could. 

I followed old Mars' Robert 

For four year, near about. 
Got wounded in three places 

And starved at Point Lookout. 
I eotch the roomatism 

A campin' in the snow, 
I killed a chance o' Yankees, 

I'd like to kill some mo'. 

Three hundred thousand Yankees 
Is stiff in Southern dust ; 



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We got tliree hundred thousand 
Before they smothered us; 
They died of Southern fever — 

And Southern steel and shot; 
I wish thev was three million 

Instead of what we got. 

I can't take uj3 my musket 

And fight "em now any more. 
But I ain't goin' to love 'em. 

Now that is certain sure; 
And I don't want no pardon 

For what I was and am, 
I won't be n'construi-lcd. 

And I don't care a d . 



THE JACKET OF GRAY OUR SOLDIER 
BOY WORE. 

Fold it up carefully, lay it aside. 
Tenderly touch it, look on it with pride — 
For, dear must it be to our hearts evermore. 
The Jacket of Gray our loved soldier boy wore. 

Ah, vain, all vain, were our prayers and our 

tears ; 
The glad shout of victory sang in our ears, 
But our trea.sured one on the red battlefield lay. 
While the life-blood oozed out of the Jacket of 

Gray. 

His young comrades found him and tenderly 

bore 
The cold, lifeless form to his home by the shore. 
Oh ! dark were out hearts on that terrible day, 
When we saw our dead boy in the Jacket of 

Gray. 

We laid him to rest in his cold, narrow bed. 
And graved on the marble we placed o'er his 

head. 
As the proudest of tributes our proud hearts 

could say, 
"He never disgraced the Jacket of Gray." 

Then fold it up carefully, lay it aside, 
Tenderly touch it, look on it with pride — 
For dear must it be to our hearts evermore. 
The Jacket of Grav our soldier boy wore. 



THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG. 

HARRY m'CARTY. 

(Written April, 18G1, and immensely pojm- 
lar. The first flag of the South was of solid 
blue with one white star.) 

We are a band of brothers 

And native to the soil. 
Fighting for the property 

We gained by honest toil; 



And when our rights were threatened, 
The cry rose near and far — 

"Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag 
That bears the single star!" 

Chorus. 
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 

For Southern rights, hurrah ! 
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag 

That bears the single star ! 

As long as e'er the Union 

Was faithful to her trust. 
Like friends and like brothers 

Both kind were we and just; 
But now, when Northern treachery 

Attempts our rights to mar. 
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag 

That bears the single star. 
Chorus. 

First gallant South Carolina 

Nobly made the stand. 
Then came Alabama, 

Who took her by the hand. 
Next quickly Mississippi, 

Georgia and Florida, 
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag 

That bears the single star. 
Chorus. 

And here's to old Virginia — 

The Old Dominion State — 
With the young Confed-raoy 
At length has linked her fate ; 
Impelled by her example. 

Now other states prepare 
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag 

That bears the single star. 
Ch or us. 

Then here's to our Confederacy, 

Strong are we and brave. 
Like patriots of old will fight 

Our heritage to save. 
And rather than submit to shame, 

To die we would prefer; 
So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag 

That bears the single star. 
Chorus. 

Then cheer, boys, cheer! 

Eaise the joyous shout, 
For Arkansas and North Carolina 

Now have both gone out; 
And let another rousing cheer 
For Tennessee be given. 
The single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag 

Has grown to be eleven ! 
Chorus. 



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THE ORIGINAL DIXIE. 

(The song of "Dixie" is indelibly connected 
with the South. We all know the air and have 
seen some of the many "Dixies" sung to it, but 
how few have seen the original song. There is 
but the one real "Dixie," and here follows the 
genuine — from which all counterfeits sprung.) 

I wish I was in the land of cotton. 
Old times dar am not forgotten; 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
In Dixie Land whar I was born in. 
Early on one frosty mornin'. 
Look away, look away, look away. Dixie Land. 
Den I wish I was in Dixie, 
Hooray ! Hooray ! 
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand. 

To lib and die in Dixie; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie ; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

Old Missus marry "Will de weaber" — 
William was a gay deceaber — 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
But when he put his arm around 'er, 
He smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder, 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
Den I wish I was in Dixie, 
Hooray ! Hooray ! 
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand. 

To lib and die in Dixie; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie ; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaber. 
But dat did not seem to sreab 'er. 



Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
Old missus acted the foolish part. 
And died for the man that broke her heart. 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
Den I wish I was in Dixie, 
Hooray ! Hooray ! 
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand, 

To lib and die in Dixie; 
Away, awa}', away down South in Dixie; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

Now heres a health to the next old missus. 
And all the gals that want to kiss us; 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
But if you want to drive away sorrow. 
Come and hear dis nig tomorrow, 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
Den I wi>h I was in Dixie, 
Hooray ! Hooray ! 
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand, 

To lib and die in Dixie; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie ; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

Dar's buckwheat cakes and ingen batter — 
Makes you fat or a little fatter — 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
Den hoe it down and scratch your grabble, 
To Dixie's Land I'm bound to trabble. 
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. 
Den I wish I was in Dixie, 
Hooray ! Hooray ! 
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand. 

To lib and die in Dixie. 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie; 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 



MEMORIES HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 

FROM WINTER QUARTERS TO APPOMATTOX, 
AND FROM APPOMATTOX TO GALVESTON. 

BY CAPT. W. T. IIILL^ CO. D, FIFTH TEXAS. 



The Texas Brigade held position north of the 
James River from early in the fall until break- 
ing up of camp in the spring. The brigade saw 
much service in the fall, watching the enemy, 
doing much fighting and supporting General 
Gary's Cavalry, winning the sobriquet of being 
"General Gary's Foot Cavalry." The brigade 
had rather a pleasant winter camp, with very 
little war exciteiiient. The Confer'^tTRtr- (Juvrn 
ment offered $1,500 for every horse the scouts 
would capture. This offer gave great sport to 
the soldiers, as tliey captured many of the en- 



emy's pickets, mostly bounty Germans. One 
night the scouts alarmed the whole of the en- 
emy's army north of the James River. The 
beating of the "long roll'' could be distinctly 
heard. The scouts became so fond of the sport 
that when volunteers were called for they would 
grab up their clothing, guns, etc., and run out 
and dress themselves on the color line, and 
' vowd and push one anot'ier. savin?: '"' "■'>t hpr(> 
first." A certain number was called for from 
each regiment, when four times the number re- 
sponded. The writer, who was commanding 
I lie Fifth, thought tlie scouts of the Fifth would 



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have a battle royal on the color line one night 
as to who got there first. 

On Saturday night, April 2, 1865, the brigade 
had orders to be in readine>s to march at day- 
light. The march was begun in the morning 
for Richmond, destined for Petersburg, where 
the brigade arrived on the cars just about noon. 
The brigade at that time was composed of the 
Third Arkansas, Colonel E. C. Taylor com- 
manding; First Texas, Colonel F. S. Bass com- 
manding; Fourth Texas, Lieutenant Colonel 
Winkler commanding ; the Fifth Texas, Captain 
W. T. Hill commanding; Colonel E. M. Powell, 
commander of brigade, ^^^len the brigade ar- 
rived at Petersburg we could see long lines of 
the enemy within our lines marching westward. 
The Texas Brigade was stationed at the cross- 
ings on the Appomattox Eiver to prevent the 
enemy from passing to north side of said stream. 
As the enemy did not make their appearance, 
the brigade had little to do. About 11 o'clock 
that night the brigade commenced the march 
westward, bringing up the rear of Lee's army. 
Fires lighted up the heavens everywhere, as 
everything was burned that would be of service 
to the enemy. Xear where the Fifth Texas was 
stationed on the Appomattox a house stored 
with bacon was burned ; as we were hungry we 
felt it a hardship not to be allowed to use it. All 
knew that General Lee was defeated and was re- 
treating westward along the railroad that led 
from Petersburg to LjTichburg. The Texas 
Brigade tramped all night and all the next day 
without any assault from the enemy. The army 
was without food, but was informed that ra- 
tions awaited them at Amelia Court House. 

When Lee's army arrived at Amelia Court 
House on the morning of the 4th no rations had 
arrived. The brigade had a little meal issued 
to it without salt, which was mostly boiled in 
tin cups, making a sort of gruel, which diseased 
the bowels of the soldiers. 

General Lee held his army at Amelia Court 
House for one day, hoping that his rations 
would arrive. This loss of time allowed Sheri- 
dan with his cavalry to cut Lee off from Dan- 
ville, his objective point. Being baffled in his 
attempt to meet General Johnston in the South 
by way of Davitte, he was forced to change his 
route to L}Tichburg. The enemy's cavalry- as- 
saulted our wagon train a number of times, do- 
ing much damage, until driven off by some in- 
fantry. 

The enemy's infantry caught up with the 
Texas Brigade on evening of the 5th, which was 
the rear of the rear guard, after leaving Rice's 
station, where the brigade skirmishers had a hot 
£ght with the enemy. The fighting line had to 



be heavily reinforced to drive the enemy back. 
In this fight the noted cock-fighter of the brig- 
ade was killed, Boykin of Company C. Fiftli 
Texas. He carried a rooster on his shoulder on 
the march and would sometimes capture an- 
other rooster by pitting his against another near 
the marching line and would pick both of them 
up when contest got hot. The little fight above 
mentioned ended at night, by which time all 
of Lee's army had crossed the Appomattox, ex- 
cept the Texas Brigade. A large body of men 
were seen on the top of a hill nearby by twilight 
and who they were was only ascertained by 
hastily sending a courier to the commander. 
The brigade was informed that they were sev- 
eral thousand prisoners that Lee's army had 
captured around Petersburg and during the bat- 
tles on the retreat. After learning the critical 
state of affairs the commander soon hurried 
them forward out of danger of being retaken. 

The brigade then crossed over the river and 
bivouacked on the first hills near the river. The 
next morning, the 6th of April, the brigade waa 
marched up the river to the high railroad 
bridge to hold the enemy in check until the 
bridge could be effectually destrored. At noon 
a courier dashed in and informed Colonel Pow- 
elll, the brigade commander, to retreat with all 
haste, as the Texas Brigade was cut off. The 
brigade was led by a blind route west near the 
railroad, passing through Colonel Hillary Rich- 
ardson's front yard, knocking down some of 
his pretty fence, thereby eluding the enemy. 
Here the writer requested a citizen to ride into 
Farmville, some half mile distant, and request 
his brother. Dr. Wood, to buy all the bread in 
town for him, as his regiment was hungry and 
without food. As the regiment marched to Dr. 
Wood's store, he informed the writer that there 
was not a loaf of bread in town. The brigade 
crossed the river on the wagon bridge to the 
north of the river and town of Farmville and 
ascended the high hills in Cumberland County. 
As the brigade was crossing the bridge the en- 
emv was seen hurriedly placing in position a 
battery of six guns in front of Colonel Rich- 
ardson's residence, the point the brigade had 
just left. As the brigade passed up the slope 
of the high hill it was seen that Lee had about 
fifty guns bearing on that battery. This solved 
the mystery why the brigade was not fired on. 
Rations were issued (a little bacon and corn- 
meal) and the march was continued before any 
cooking could be done. 

On looking to the east hea\T columns of the 
enemy's infantry could be seen marching di- 
rectly on Lee's army and his right flank. Lee's 
army marched as rapidly as possible to avoid a 



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battle. After a march of two miles a brigade 
of the enemy's cavalry, commanded by General 
Gregg, made an assoult on a Georgia brigade 
of infantry in Fields' division, the Texas Brig- 
ade being one of the brigades of said division, 
and were terribly punished, Gregg being made 
prisoner. This little cavalry fight halted the 
division until two hours after night. The po- 
sition held by the Texas Brigade was on a high 
hill in an open field and everything could be 
plainly seen, as the sky beyond presented a sort 
of a mirror. The men had to dig little holes in 
the ground, build a fire in it of little twigs and 
cook more gruel of cornmeal. Each soldier had 
to crawl around like a lizard, as he did not dare 
raise his head. The enemy's sharpshooters were 
in the dark at the foot of the hill, hidden behind 
trees, and suffered very little by the brigade fire. 

Here Colonel Masterson of General Fields' 
staff was shot off his hor-;e. About two hours 
after dark the brigade continued the march. 

From this point until Appomattox was 
reached there was nothing seen but the aban- 
donment of Lee's cannon, wagons, ambulances, 
dead horses and horses lying in the mud, too 
by the starved condition of the teams. The 
Texas Brigade continued the m.'jrch as rear 
guard until the night of the 8th of April, 
bivouacking two mile? east of Appomattox. 

On the morning of the 9th the Texas Brigade 
marched within one mile of Appomattox, when 
it faced east, then north, then south, to meet 
the enemy. No enemy came in sight. The 
Texas Brigade then formed in a semi-circle 
across the road and began to build breastworks 
of whatsoever material was at hand. The Fifth 
appropriated a rail fence. As General Gordon 
had battle with the enemy on the evening of the 
7th, driving him from his line of march, the 
army continued the retreat on the morning of 
the 8th. 

On the evening of the 8th the enemy again 
made their appearance in Gordon's front. Gor- 
don failed to disperse the enemy that night and 
the firing commenced at daylight the next 
morning on the 9th. 

Then we knew that Lee's line of retreat was 
blocked. Suddenly everything came to a death- 
like stillness. That evening (the 9th) the teams- 
ters came from the front and reported that 
General Lee had surrendered. The brigade gave 
the lie to the report and for awhile the teams- 
ters were in jeopardy. The protocol of the sur- 
render was written and signed by Generals 
Grant and Lee on the 10th, when on the same 
day General Lee issued his address to his army 
and bid it an affectionate farewell, and passed 
out of his lines near the Texas Brigade for 



Richmond. The morale of the Texas Brigade 
never weakened, but the men were as game as 
fighting cocks to the finish. 

After General Lee's address was received the 
Fifth was thrown into great confusion, the men 
saying General Grant should not have their 
guns, when they began to bend their gun bar- 
rels in a forked red oak. As soon as the writer 
saw the work of destruction going on he in- 
formed the men that General Grant would not 
grant a parole to any soldier who did not pre- 
sent his gun in good condition. They said : "If 
that be the case we will straighten them back." 
Each one of them made a sublime failure on the 
'"straighten them back" proposition. As there 
was no inspector of arms at the stacking of 
arms, all got their parole. The enemy after the 
surrender came within our lines like a swarm of 
gnats and traded their hardtack for our green 
beef without salt. The enemy said they were 
truly glad that General Lee had surrendered, a.s 
they were tired of this war and that they dread- 
ed the aim of Lee's men. Paroles were issued 
and arms stacked by noon on April 12. 

The Confederates marched in front "f a line of 
battle of the enemy, some ten paces distant from 
the stack, and leaned their guns against those 
already stacked. The color bearer did likewise 
with the colors. 

It was a sad, sad day for General Lee's army. 

Tlie brigade then marched to their old biv- 
ouac. Here the writer will let the brigade rest 
until the surrender of General Lee's sword is 
noticed. 

A Senator in his address to the Texas Brig- 
ade at Navasota last June eulogized General 
Grant for returning General Lee's sword to him 
after he (Lee) had surrendered it to General 
Grant. Some of the brigade said our Southern 
orators ought to inform themselves on that flag 
incident before they again make any such as- 
sertion. The writer promised to find what his- 
tory there was that related to the sword inci- 
dent, and found the point well taken, that Gen- 
eral Lee did not surrender his sword to General 
Grant. In "Jones Reminiscences of General 
Lee," page 303, I find the following: "While 
in company with several gentlemen the follow- 
ing conversation took place : 'General Grant re- 
turned you your sword, did he not. General?' 
The old hero, straightening himself up, replied 
in most emphatic tone : 'Xo, sir, he did not. He 
had no opportunity of doing so. I was deter- 
mined that the side arms of officers should be 
exempt by the terms of surrender, and, of 
course, I did not offer mine. All that was said 
about swords was that General Grant apologized 
to me for not wearing his sword, saying that it 



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had gone off in his baggage, and he had been 
unable to get it in time." '" 

In "Southern Historical Papers," volume 9. 
pages 139 and 140, I find the following, viz. : 

-General IT. S. Grant, New York. 

'•Buffalo Lythia Springs, Va., March 11, 
1881. — Sir: In a friendly discussion between 
several gentlemen of Northern and Southern 
proclivities as to the 'truth of historv. n ■<■' -- 
tion arose whether Lee at the surrender actually 
tendered and you received his sword. It was 
mutually agreed that you should be written to 
for a decision. There is no idle curiosity or de- 
sire for notoriety in regard to this request, and 
a reply from you would be highly appreciated. 
Very "respectfully, T D.. Jeffress." 

General Grant reidied as follows on the bot- 
tom of the same sheet of paper : 

"General Badeau's book, now in the hands of 
the printer, will give t!'e exact truth of the mat 
ter referred to in this letter. There was no de- 
mand made for General Lee's sword and no ten- 
Very respectfully, T. D. Jeffress." 

The writer will now return to the Texas 
Brigade bivouacked in its old four days' camp. 
The official record shows the following men sur- 
rendered at Appomattox: First Texas, 13:3, 
Colonel F. S. Bass commanding; Fourth Texas. 
145, Lieutenant Colonel C. M. Winkler com- 
manding; Fifth Texas, 149, Captain W. T. 
Hill, commanding; Third Arkansas, 130. Ca' - 
tain A. C. Jones commanding, making 557 of- 
ficers and privates of the entire brigade (four 
regiments) who surrendered at Appomattox. 
The three Texas regiments surrendered 427 of- 
ficers and privates. Estimating the entire en- 
listment of the tlirce Texas rcimients at 4.ni''i 
officers and privates, it will be seen that there 
were 3,573, who were not present at the 
surrender. Some of this number were dishon- 
orably absent, many dead, many sick and dis- 
abled. The best manner of getting back to 
Texas was fully disscussed by the Texas regi- 
ments. Some took steamer at Yorktowii.^ some 
remained in Virginia, some stopped with rla- 
tives in the Southern States, but the great m >- 
jority of them decided to march in one com- 
mand to Danville, thence to Atlanta, Montgom- 
ery by rail and to Mobile, New Orleans and Gal- 
veston by steamer. The Texans bid farewell 
to the Third Arkansas, which was as brave and 
noble a regiment as was ever mustered into 
the Confederate service. The Third Arkans,-is 
went home by way of Chattanooga and Mem- 
phis. Soon after noon on the 12th of April the 
Texns !"ri"ail(' m:irched from '"ibe r"'n.'' n~- ■■u- 
soldiers called the camp, for General Grant had 



built a pen around General Lee's army with 
his soldiers, some ten miles in direction of Dan- 
ville. The next day about noon the Texans 
stopped at a water mill that was grinding corn- 
meal. The owner gave us all the meal we 
wanted and enough to last two days. The brig- 
ade camped there the balance of the day, spend- 
ing the time in cooking and eating. That night 
was the last that the brigade bivouacked to- 
gether. The weak and sore-footed would start 
several hours before day and took every wrong 
i-oad on the march to Danville. The brigade 
came into Danville only in little squads for 
several days. As the railroads from Danville 
to ]\Iontgomery were generally torn up by the 
enemy, the Texans had to foot it nearly 300 
miles to reach Montgomery. 

The Texans of Lee's army met the Texans 
i)f Johnston's army at Greensborough, N. C. 
There they met Major George, Hood's Quarter- 
master. He had his same Durham cow that 
had followed his wagon train f<ir four years. 
The cow was still giving milk. 

The Texans left Greensborough in scpiads for 
.Montgomery, riding by rail very little. Ti.e 
writer and his squad were about the first to 
reach Montgomery, when report was made to 
the provost officer in command. He assigned 
the Confederates quarters in a large two-story 
building in the city near the artesian well. The 
(|uarters were ample and good. As Major W. 
H. Martin and the writer had agreed to take 
connuand of the Texans, we gathered them into 
ipiarters as they arrived. By the time we took 
steamer for Mobile near 400 were in quarters, 
."^lajor Martin took charge of the commissary, 
and the writer took charge of the paroles. The 
brigade, which included all the Texans of both 
armies had to remain in Montgomery seven 
days before a steamer could be furnished. The 
provost officer finally informed Major Martin 
.ind the writer that if we would take the Texans 
auii unload a steamer that had just arrived ho 
would send the command on it to Mobile. The 
Texans were informed of the arrangement, and 
they agreed to it with a whoop. Squads of ne- 
groes, fifty to a squad, were kept to unload the 
steamers as they arrived. The negroes were given 
twenty-four hours to unload a steamer. The 
Texans unloaded theirs in six hours, putting 
every variety of freight together and covering 
the whole with tarpaulin cloths. The captain 
of the steamer complimented the men for doing 
the (juickest and best work that he had ever had 
done. 

Tender cover, stored on the wharf, were boat 
loads of bacon, hardtack, sugar, coffee, pickles, 
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beef, wagons, cannon frames, picks, axes, and 
a host of other war material. The Texans gave 
up when they saw all this stuff, saying : ''Boys, 
we never could have whipped the Yankees." 

The day before the Texans took the steamer 
for Mobile the provost officer ordered every pa- 
roled soldier to report at his office to have his 
parole countersigned. Had a soldier passed by 
a provost office without the proper countersign- 
ing, he would have been taken and held as a 
prisoner. So the Texans turned out en masse 
to the provost office. ^Tienever a call was made 
for "Next" near a dozen hands would be thrust 
into the office window. The writer saw the 
confusion, and that some of the soldiers would 
be there all day. He went to a side door and 
asked the guard to permit him to see the pro- 
vost officer. He very courteously did so, and 
the writer was invited in. He suggested to the 
officer that if he would furnish the writer with 
a table, pen and ink he would collect all the pa- 
roles, bring them in his office and countersign 
for his signature. He thanked the writer for 
the suggestion. All the men were ordered into 
line, their paroles taken and were permittel to 
disperse. It took half a day to complete the 
work. The paroles were returned to the men at 
quarters. 

At the promised hour next morning all went 
aboard the steamer for Mobile. When the steam- 
er arrived at Selma the Texans had to disem- 
bark in order that a negro regiment might be 
taken to Mobile. The Texans made bitter com- 
plaint, that it was a "regular Yankee trick," 
making them unload a steamer and putting 
them off for a lot of black negroes. The Texans 
remained at Selma until the next morn'ng. 
when another steamer made its appearance and 
steamed for Mobile. On arrival the Texans 
were assigned good quarters, rations were i.«- 
pued, and the same provost work executed as 
was done at Selma. 

After a peaceful and monotonous life of six 
'lays the Texans boarded a steamer for Xew 
Orleans. When about the middle of Lake Pon- 
ehartrain, late in the evening, a very dark 
cloud appeared off the right of the steamer, 
the lightning being very vivid, which caused 
many of the Texans to fear that they would be 
drowned in that hole of water. Thev suggested 
that the writer see the captain of the steamer 
to ascertain if there was any danger. The 
writer ascended the steps to the upper deck, 
when he saw the stateroom in a whirl of dance 
with beautifully dressed women and gaudilv 
dressed Federal officers. He found the captain 
in the clerk's office and asked him if he thouglit 
there was any danger from the black cloud off 



to our right. He answered, after looking at the 
barometer, "Xone at all, sir; only a thunder 
cloud." The wind and rain soon struck the 
vessel, which caused the Texans to retreat to the 
opposite side of the steamer. After arriving 
at Xew Orleans the Texans were assigned quar- 
ters in a large cotton shed. The soldiers had 
no bedding furnished them, but slept on their 
own army blankets. Here no paroles were 
countersigned, but a company of negro soldiers 
were placed as a guard over" the Texans. The 
next morning after being assigned quarters 
nearly all the Texans who wore brass buttons 
were met with a "Stop dar, till I cut them 
buttons off." It made no difference whether the 
buttons were English, French or German, just 
so they were brass buttons. The indignities 
offered the Federal government had to be 
avenged by cutting off her make of buttons. 
The Texans soon caught on and did their own 
button-cutting. You ask if the boys felt 
"hacked." The answer is, yes. It looked, 
though, as if the Texans were getting some 
"pav back" for destroying the negro brigade 
at the Phillips house on September 29, 1864. 

The Texans were treated civilly in New 
Orleans by every one except the low class, who 
made it a point to act as uncivil as their mean 
natures would allow them. The Texans had the 
liberty of the city and their quarters — egress 
and ingress "ad libitum." The Irish women 
flocked to the quarters of the Texans, cooked 
the rations for them, either bringing their meals 
to them or having them to come to their homes 
to eat. These women also furnished each Texan 
with a good suit of clothes. Not a German 
woman made her appearance. The Texans re- 
mained in Xew Orleans nine days, pining to get 
home. 

On the last night before the Texans took 
steamer for Galveston Colonel Henry, a grand 
old "rebel," gave the rank and file of the 
Texans a grand supper. Dr. Greenleaf gave the 
officers a magnificient entertainment. The 
Texans went aboard the steamer, the Hud-on, 
at 10 a. m. A fire broke out in the city near 
Colonel Henry's residence and the Texans hur- 
riedly left the steamer and went to his assist- 
ance. They removed everything out of his 
house, carpets, pictures, etc., and replaced 
everything in his house after the fire had burneJ 
around him. Some of his outhouses were 
burned. It was a ludicrous sight to "^ee some 
of the men with a stack of chinaware on their 
left arm and a pie in their right I'and. The 
Texans placed a guard over the colonel's house- 
hold goods and had to knock down some thieves 
before they would turn loose their plunder. 
.'\I1 boarded the Hudson for Galveston at 4 p. m. 



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May 29, 1865. All went well until just before 
day the next morning, when the Hudson came 
to a sudden halt. The fact was soon made 
known that we were stuck in the mud at the 
mouth of the Mississippi river. Here the 
Texans lay two exceedingly long days. Many 
of them felt tempted to wade over to Galveston. 
On the second day two tugs lashed to the Hud- 
son to pull her out of the mud. This effort 
was in vain. At 10 a. m. the third day a 
freight steamer lashed to the Hudson, took the 
Texans aboard and steamed for Galveston. The 
steamer was so constructed that lialf of the men 
had to take quarters in the hold of the vessel 
and the other half on deck above them. All 
went well until 2 the next morning, when from 
human heat, caused by the poor ventilation and 
the very offensive nature of the bilge water, 
more than half of the men in the hold had gone 
to the upper deck. The captain of the steamer 
sent for the writer and informed him that if 
the men did not get off the top of the vessel 
it would turn over. The matter was made 
known to the men, when the answer was re- 
turned : "Curse her, let her go." Some people 
thought about that time that the "fool killer" 
had not done his duty. At twilight in the morn- 
ing the vessel came to anchor near the block- 
ading fleet of five very formidable looking ships. 
Here the steamer remained at anchor until noon, 
when General E. J. Davis suffered her to come 
into the city. The men were soon ashore, 
and rejoiced to know that their lives were 
spared and proud to know they had upheld 
the honor and valor of their State, landing 
at Galveston on April 2, 1865, after four years 
of hard service. 

The arrangement by the good people of Gal- 
veston and Houston was that on landing at 
Galveston the Texans were to take a Buffalo 
bayou steamer to Houston and eat a sumjituous 
dinner prepared by the good people of Houston. 
General Davis frustrated this arrangement by 
holding the men out in the gulf at anchor half 
a day. and by refusing to let the men have 
the use of the bayou steamer. About sunset the 
Galveston people improvised an old engine and 
a large number of flat cars, without seats, and 
bid the men to take passage for Houston. As 
soon as the men began to cUmb on the cars a 
score of Irish women made their appearance 
with brooms and swe]it off the cars. A noble race 
of people. Alav the Lord ever bless them. 
The train arrived at Houston that night 
at 12 o'clock, the men half frozen from 
ridine in the cold open air. Call was made 
for all the soldiers to repair to a certain hall 
to eat a sumptuous dinner, ready spread. The 
writer's company accepted the hosjitality of the 



proprietor of the Hadley house, Colonel John 
Murray, whose son had been first sergeant in the 
writer's company. At Houston the brigade dis- 
banded and radiated to different parts of the 
State. 

Here let us drop the curtain. 



To the members and friends of Hood's Texas 
Brigade : 

There are now not more than 300 survivors 
in Hood's Texas brigade. The brigade seeing 
this sparsity of members, resolved, at the an- 
nual meeting of Hood's Texas Brigade associa- 
tion at Navasota, on the 27th day of last June, 
to build a monument to be placed on the capitol 
grounds at Austin, to the memory of the dead 
and living of this grand old brigade of National 
fame. The president of the association kindly 
requests all the members of the brigade, who 
have not already done so, to send forward their 
contributions for building the monument. Ask 
your neighbors to assist. Dear readers of this 
letter, please help us in our great work. Send 
all funds to Captain F. B. Chilton, Houston, 
Texas. Please help us. W. T. Hill, 

President of the Hood's Texas Brigade As- 
sociation. 



VETERANS MEMORIAL. 

Comrade Frank Chilton Delivered a Beautiful Eulogium 

on Comrade L. A. Daffan, Recently Deceased. 

Dick Dowling Camp Paid Tribute. 

Sunday's meeting of members of Dick Dowl- 
ing camp was largely a memorial service dedicat- 
ed to the memory of the late L. A. Daffan. 

Captain F. B. Chilton, a member of Hood's 
Texas Brigade, made the following remarks and 
offered the following resolutions : 

Honorable commander and comrades of Dick 

Dowling camp, IJ. C. V., No. 197, Houston, 

Texas : 

I rise to offer a resolution for the considera- 
tion of this camp on the death of a splendid 
Confederate soldier, L. A. Daffan, who, though 
not a member of this camji, is yet by connected 
events brought into such close relationship with 
us, as to demand the action I earnestly ask the 
camp to take. 

It is meet to state that there are three good 
reasons why the camp sliould pass these resolu- 
tions ; first, there are as active members of Dick 
Dowling camp seven comrades, namely, G. A. 
Branard, F. M. Poland, T. A. Cameron, M. W. 
Mcleod, H. T. Sapp, J. E. Landes and F. B. 
Chilton, all of whom were with comrade L. A. 



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Daffan, members of Hood's Texas brigade, army 
of northern Virginia; second. Miss Katie Daf- 
fan, the daughter of our deceased comrade, is 
a beloved honorary member of this camp ; third, 
it was only at the last meetinsj two weeks ago, 
that this camp honored itself by selecting Miss 
Katie Daffan as its sponsor for the great reunion 
at Richmond the coming May, therefore I ask 
that the camp rise to its feet during the reading 
and unanimously adopt the following resolu- 
tions in respect to our departed comrade, Law- 
rence Aylett Daffan. 

Resolutions of Dick Bowling camp, U. C. V., 
Houston, Texas, on the death of Lawrence 
Aylett DafEan who was born April 30, 1845, and 
died at Ennis, Texas, January 28, 1907. 

While camp was standing with bowed heads, 
resolution was read and unanimously adopted. 

Whereas, the Great Ruler of heaven and earth 
has in His infinite wisdom, called from the 
environments of this life our friend and 
comrade, Lawrence Aylett Daffan, and whereas 
his death is felt as an especial bereavement by 
Dick Dowling camp. United Confederate Vet- 
erans, we, the members of said camp, desire 
to testify to the regard we entertained for him 
in life and our sorrow that he has been removed 
from our midst ; therefore be it 

Resolved, That we realize that taps have again 
been sounded and still another true and tried 
Confederate soldier has passed to his rest, that 
once more the "last roll" has been bravely an- 



swered by a loyal son of the South and yet an- 
other hero of Appomattox has crossed over 
and joined the ranks of his waiting comrades 
"under the shadow of the trees," in the great be- 
yond. 

Our deceased comrade was an honored mem- 
ber of Company G, Fourth Texas Regiment, 
Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia. Entering the Confederate army during 
the first of the war he served with unvarying 
fidelity and distinction to its close. After 
the war he immediately identified himself with 
the upbuilding of the Houston and Texas Cen- 
tral Railway and remained with it over forty 
years — up to his death. 

Comrade Daffan was a heroic soldier in war 
and a model citizen in peace, and was known 
as a firm Confederate and a true friend. He was 
a courteous, honorable, Christian gentleman, a 
loving husband, a tender parent, devoted to 
family and friends, of whom he had as large 
a number as falls to the lot of man. 

In all respects the memory of our comrade 
will be a blessing and his example worthy of 
emulation, therefore, be it further 

Resolved, That these resolutions be adopted 
by a rising vote of the camp, that same be 
spread upon the minutes of Dick Dowling camp, 
that they be furnished the Houston press for 
publication and that a copy be sent the family 
of our deceased comrade. 



THE BATTLE OF SECOND MANASSAS. 

FOUGHT AUGUST 30, i862. 

BY L. A. DAFF.\X, CO. G, 1-OCRTH TEXAS. 



The following account of the battle of second 
Manassas, August 30, 1862, was given to me, 
personally and informally dictated, by my 
father. Always interested in the battles in 
which he took a part and his service in the war, 
begun when he was a 16-year-old boy, I in- 
sisted that he let me take his own account of 
his observations and experiences in the great 
charges. It was my privilege to go with him to 
visit the battlefield of Mana.-:sas, to go over the 
historic ground and locate the s])ot where stood 
Hood's Texas Brigade during the storm of bat- 
tle. This account, with others, is included in 
"My Father as I Remember Him,'' a biograph- 
ical volume dedicated to his memory. 

I have heard my father and his comrades, in 
our home, many times renew the record of 
Hood's Texas brigade, when animated, spirited 



discussions would ensue. Though each was 
present, in the flesh, upon the battlefield, each 
an ardent participant, there were sometimes 
as many opinions as there were voices. 

All agreed, however, as to the main object 
and issue, the great movements, the certain tests 
and the awful experiences, not only at the time 
of action, but those which so rapidly followed. 

Believing that a personal observation is one 
way and a true way to establish history, this ac- 
count is given to those who are interested in 
Texans in the Confederacv. Katie Daffan. 



On Thursday evening, October 29, 1862, 
marching through the foothills of the Blue 
Ridge Mountains, we heard the sound and echo 
of artillery, which was familiar to us, and we 
knew that we were approaching the enemy. 



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•Just before sundown we cntciod Tiiorough- 
1'are Gap. We could hear musketry and artil- 
lery at the opposite side of the gap. Ander- 
.-^on's Brigade had engaged tlie enemy, who was 
holding the gap, to keep us from forming a 
junction with Jackson at Manassas. 



Hood's Brigade filed out of the road and 
started right over the top of the mountain, 
wliich was very steep climbing. By the time we 
were at the top we received word that Anderson 
had routed the enemy. We returned to the road 
and continued that night and marched through 
the gap and camped right on the ground where 
Anderson had driven them away. We were or- 
dered to be ready to move at a moment's warn- 
ing. We started at G o'clock Friday morninL', 
Augu.st 30. 

I speak of Hood's division in tliis, which con- 
sisted of Benning's Brigade and Anderson's 
Georgia Brigade, Law's Alabama Brigade and 
Hood's Texas Brigade. Hood was, at this time. 
Brigadier General, but acting in the capacity 
of ^lajor General for this division. 

We marched along in ordinary time tn Man- 
assas, imtil 9 or 10 o'clock. At this time we 
began to hear very heavy cannonade. In an 
hour we were in the hearing of very heavy artil- 
lery and musketry, fierce and violent. Jackson 
had engaged Pope and his corps. The sound of 
the firing continued to grow more violent. Wo 
received orders to quickstep and shortly after- 
ward received orders to double quickstep. We 
were all 5'oung and stout, and it seemed to me 
this kept up about two hours. Pope was press- 
ing Jackson very hard at this point. We joined 
•Tackson and formed at his right and doubled- 
quicked into line of battle and threw out skirm- 
ishers. 



At this time, as we arrived there, the firing 
all along Jackson's line ceased at once. We 
took position Friday evening, and Friday night 
we had a night attack. This and the attack at 
Eaccoon Mountain, Tennes.see, were the only 
night attacks that T know of made by the Con- 
federates. Tliis attack caused great confusion, 
and I could never understand what benefit it 
was. We slept that night very close to the en- 
emy, in fact could not speak aloud or above a 
whi.sper. I had a very bad cold at this time, 
contracted on the retreat from Yorktown, and 
an officer was sent from head(pi-irters "'to tell 
than man who was constantly coughing to go 
from the front to the rear, where he could n^t 
be heard." I went back, near half a mile, with 
my blanket and accoutrements. T slept a'one. 
under a large oak tree, coughing all night. T 
ddu't know the maneuvers of our regiment be- 



tween this and day, but I joined them early Sat- 
urday morning. We formed in perfect order 
early in the day. Jackson brought on the attack 
on our left about noon and pres-sed the enemy 
until they began to give way in front of him. 
This drew a number of troops from in front of 
us to support those Jackson was driving back 
on our left. 

General Lee's headquarters were in sight of 
where I was. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon 
1 saw a considerable commotion in General 
Lee's headquarters; he, his stafE oflficers and 
couriers. The couriers darted off with their in- 
structions to different commanders of divisions, 
in a few minutes a courier dashed up to Gen- 
eral Robertson, commanding the Texas Brigade. 
These couriers and orderlies notified the re- 
spective Colonels. The order "attention" was 
given, then the order "to load," then "forward," 
"guide center." We went through the heavy 
timber and emerged into an open field. We 
had a famous battery with us, Reiley's battery, 
with six guns, four Napoleon and two six-])0und 
rifles. 



Captain Reiley had alwa^'s promised us that 
if the location of the company permitted, he 
would charge with us. We opened and made 
room between the Fourth and Fifth Texas for 
K'iley's Battery to come in. As we started, the 
b'lttery started. 

Young's branch was between us and a hill on 
the other side, which was occupied by a Federal 
I lattery, which was playing on us. This turned 
into a charge as soon as we emerged from the 
timber. We had gone a short distance when 
IJeiJoy unlimbered two of his guns and opened 
im the Federals. We moved past these guns 
\' liile they were firing. As we passed on the 
"ther two guns came in some distance ahead of 
those that were firing, swung into position and 
unlimbered. It seemed to me by the time the 
first two had stopped, the second two opened 
lire. This was done remarkably quick. They 
rharged with us in this charge until we arinvi-d 
at Young's branch ; two sections, two Napoleon 
■runs each, two firing while the other two would 
limber up and run past them, swing into posi- 
tion and open fire. 

This was the grandest thing I saw during th» 
\var — the charge of Eeiley's Batterv with the 
'I'exas Brigade. T don't know whether t'^ey 
-^hnt accurately or not. it was done so fast. But 
I do know tliat it attracted the attention of the 
'^'ankpe batterv on the hill, diverting t'eir at- 
tention from us. 

Eeiley's Battery were North Carolinians and 
wore with us all durinir the war and they never 
hist a irun. 



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189 



In this charge at Manassas we saw a Zouave 
regiment. It stood immediately in front of the 
Fifth Texas to our right. It was a very fine 
regiment. As the Fifth Texas approached, it 
checked the speed of the Fifth in its quick 
charge. The Fifth Texa.s, Hampton Legion 
and the Fourth Texas liad a tendency to swing 
around them. As the Fifth Texas approached 
them, I saw the blaze of their rifles reached 
nearly from one to the other. 

The First Texas, Hampton's Legion and 
Fourth Texas from their position gave the Zou- 
aves an enfilading fire, which virtually wiped 
them off the face of the earth. I never could 
understand why this fine Zouave regiment 
would make the stand they did in front of the 
brigade until nearly every one was killed. 



We rallied at Young's branch. J looked up 
the hill which we had descended and the hill 
was red with uniforms of the Zouaves. They 
were from New York. 

We ascended the hill out of Young's branch, 
charged a battery of six guns, supported by a 
line of Pennsylvania infantry. This battery 
was near enough to use on us grapeshot and 
canister. As we came near to it one of the 
guns was pointed directly at my company and 
lanyard strung. Our Captain commanded Com- 
pany G to right and left oblique from it. I 
was on the right and with a few others went 
into Company H. At this time one of the artil- 
lerj-men threw the main beam, and this threw 
the cannon directly on Company H. Company 
H received a load of canister which killed four 
or five men. 

I was immediately with Lieutenants Jon's 
and Ransom of that company, who were both 
killed right at my feet. I stepped over both of 
them. Captain Hunter, now living, was also 
shot down at that time. Most of the company 
were my schoolmates. 



This last shot threw smoke and dust all over 
me, and the shot whizzed on both sides of me. 
Lieutenant Jones was shot in the head and feet, 
but I was not touched, \\lien the smoke cleared 
away we had these guns, and they were so hot 
I couldn't bear my hands on them. I then 
fired one shot at this retreating infantry which 
the rest of the brigade had been engaged with. 

This wound up that day's engagment for us, 
except the Fifth Texas. A part of their reg- 
iment and their colors were carried about five 
miles after the retreating enemy. 

We returned to Young's branch and my at- 
tention was attracted to our support coming 
down the same hill that we had come down. 

There were four lines of battle of Long- 
street's Corps in perfect order, which passed 
us and took up the fight with the retreating 
enemy where we left it off. This battle was 
fought on the 30th and 31st of August, 1863. 

I can't understand why the Federals have al- 
ways attached so little importance to this battle, 
as they lost many gallant men there. They 
were terribly defeated, and may have been 
ashamed of their commanding general. 

L. A. Daffan, 
Company G, Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's 
Texas Brigade, Army of iSTorthem Virginia. 



While serving on General Hood's staff. Cap- 
tain J. T. Hunter, when delivering an order to 
Captain Reilev, questioned him as to the ac- 
curacy of his guns. Captain Reiley, pointing to 
the tops of some chimneys that appeared over 
the tops of some houses beyond a distant field, 
said : "You see those chimney tops ? I might 
not knock them off first shot, but the second 
would bring them." Reiley's Battery remained 
as part of Hood's Texas Brigade throughout the 
entire war, and was as effective and faithful to 
duty as any battery in the service. 



GEORGE A. BRANARD PASSED AWAY. 

GALLANT COLOR BEARER UXDER HOOD ANSWERS LAST ROLL CALL. 



{Houston Post.) 

George A. Branard, perpetual secretary' of 
Hoods Brigade Association, and one of the most 
gallant soldiers that ever shouldered a musket 
in behalf of the Confederacy, answered final 
roll call Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. 

Death occurred at his residence in the Bute 
addition, and came after a prolonged illness. 
On receiving notice that another comrade had 



signed the muster roll on the other shore, M. W. 
McLeod, ensign of Dick Dowling Camp, United 
Confederate Veterans, at once displayed the 
camp flag from the armory at city hall. 

Of all the brave men who followed the daunt- 
less Hood none was braver than George A. 
Branard. When the grave closes over him it 
will hide a shell scar which marked his courage 
at the time and thereafter till the dav of his 



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death paid tribute to his valor. He was color 
bearer of the First Texas Regiment. There was 
rivalrj- among the color bearers of the various 
regiments a~ to which could advance his colors 
nearest to the enemy's lines. Already several 
color bearers, Branard among them, had car- 
ried their tiags far ahead of their respective 
regiments. Shot and shell whistled and shrieked 
about them. Branard again advanced, stopping 
at a rock about 50 yards in the lead of his near- 
est competitor, a Georgian. Not to be outdone, 
the Georgian again moved forward, approach- 
ing the rock where Branard's colors were wav- 
ing. But the intrepid Texan was not willing 
to divide honors, not even with Georgia. Amid 
a rain of bullets he again moved forward. There 
were shouts from the regiment left behind him 
for him to turn back. On he went, waving de- 
fiance, almost under the ramparts of his adver- 
saries. The order went down the line: "Don't 
shoot that man; he is too brave to kill." The 
rattle of musketry momentarily ceased. Just 
then a shell fired at an angle exploded at the 
feet of the flag bearer from Texas. 

A fragment severed the stafE of the colors. 
Another fragment struck Branard in the fore- 
head, cutting a gash which marked him for life 
and destroying the sight of one eye. Blinded 
by blood, with his brain whirling from the force 
of the concussion, Branard still clutched his 
flagstaff and attempted to go further forward. 
The shattered remnant of his flagstaff was still 
clutched in his hand when, unconscious, his 
comrades bore him from the field. 

Men who are still living were witnes.'^es to 
Barnard's bravery, and they declare that no 
event in the entire war surpassed the incident. 
Mr. Branard was born on Galveston Island, 
Jan. 5, 1843, and at an early age evinced a de- 
sire to learn the mechanics' trade. He was em- 
ployed by M. L. Parry and later on by the firm 
of Close & Cushman. At the beginning of the 
war he entered the army in Company L, of the 
First Texas Regiment. From May, 1862, until 
November, 1863, he served as color bearer of 
the regiment until wounded on that date at the 
battle of Knoxville. On account nf being physi- 
cally disabled from the effects of his wound, he 
became sergeant in charge of the ambulance 
corps and remained in this position \intil he 
retired from the sen-ice in February, 1865, 
when he returned to Galveston. From 1866 to 
1870 he was engaged in selling agricultural 
supplies. For a couple of years Mr. Branard 
was connected with the Phoenix Express Com- 
pany and subsequently took charge of the gov- 
ernment bonded warehouses controlled by C. W. 
Hurley & Co. The next two years were spent 



in Tyler and in 1875 he became a permanent 
resident of Houston. 

The domestic life of the soldier was as calm 
and happy as his public career was honorable 
and eventful. On April 4, 1866, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Julia House, and is survived by 
nine children of the union, four of whom wore 
gathered at his bedside when his stiffened lips 
murmured "here" in answer to the last roll 
call. 

The children surviving are George A., Jr., 
James H., Henry H. and Mrs. Nettie Ward, all 
of Houston and all with him when he died. 
Miss Julia Branard, a daughter, is also of Hous- 
ton, hut is visiting in Berkley, Cal., where the 
other children now are. They are Robert W. 
Branard, Mrs. 0. C. Marr, Mrs. S. H. Hutchin- 
son and Mrs. Charles Hucker. 

The dead soldier will be buried at 4 o'clock 
this afternoon, with the funeral services under 
the auspices of Dick Dowling Camp. Services 
will be held at the late residence of the deceased 
anil interment will he in the German cem- 
etery. 

A wagonette will leave the city market hall at 
3 :15 in the afternoon to convey his comrades to 
the funeral. The list of pallbearers includes 
the names of A. T. Amerman, W. C. Kelly, W. 
B. James, J. J. Hall, Ijcvi Hickev, William Mc- 
Leod, F. R. Shields and John Staley. 

Joseph Jamison will conduct the funeral 
services. 



DICK DOWLING CAMP AT CITY HALL. 



Stirring .Addresses by W.W. Dexter and Comrade Chilton 

on Geo. Branard, Deceased, Hood's Brigade, First 

Texas Flagbearer 

{Houston Chronicle. ) 

Dick Dowling Camp, United Confederate 
Veterans, met yesterday afternoon at city hall. 
An especially attractive program was arranged 
for the afternoon and the exercises were embel- 
lished with several interesting numbers, notably 
the stirring paper of Comrade W. W. Dexter, 
which was in substance a memorial address on 
the gallant soldier, George Branard, flagbearer 
of Hood's Brigade, lately deceased. 

"In the passing of our dear old comrade, 
George Branard."' he said, "another rent has 
been made in the tattered tent of Dick Dowling 
Camp, and another brave soul has passed on to 
join the white caravan in the mystic valley of 
eternity. 

"George Branard. Wlien you hear his name 
Vhat thoughts come surging to your mind ; with 
what do you a.ssociate it — a warrior, a good 
man. His name is a svnonym of valor and all 



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191 



the nobler impulses of a truly good and fearless 
man. 

"The incidents of his life as a boy soldier 
upon the field of battle need not be here re- 
counted ; they are recorded — they belong to his- 
tory. His valor upon the battlefield was no 
less conspicuous than Pellham's. George Bra- 
nard won honor upon the field of battle as a 
Confederate soldier by repeated acts of heroism 
no less than those that have for others embla- 
zoned the pages of history. He was the flag- 
bearer of that intrepid band of death fighters. 
Hood's Texas Brigade, and when in the heat of 
battle the ensign was killed, it was George Bra- 
nard who modestly wrenched the flag from his 
comrade's death grip and holding it on high 
led the charge unmindful of danger. Pellhani'^ 
act of standing alone on the field of battle, 
firing his cannon until shot to death, was easily 
paralleled for valor by the act of young Bra- 
nard. 

"Branard's nature was so modest that he 
thought nothing of the act and he refrained 
from alluding to it. 

"You all remember him in this camp. We 
can see him now seated in some inconspicuous 



place. He disliked ostentation. He would arise 
only when the voice of duty whispered unto 
him. So was his life. His was the proverbial 
timidity of the lamb and the boldness of the 
lion. 

"He was proud of this camp. It was like a 
priceless jewel to him. You know his fidelity. 
We mourn his loss and extend our sympathy to 
his sorrowful family. It was God's way. He 
will see that his soul shall forever camp where a 
halo of glory encircles his brow, and Dick Bowl- 
ing Camp will keep green his memory and for- 
ever guard the bivouac of the dead." 

The paper was adopted by a rising vote. 

Comrade Frank B. Chilton also delivered a 
very eloquent address upon the deceased Bra- 
nard, who, he said by way of tribute, always 
carried the flag of the Confederacy ahead of his 
regiment. Comrade Chilton's discourse was 
colored by many beautiful eulogies and was ap- 
preciated in full by the large attendance. 

Captain Chilton reviewed the life and charac- 
ter of the dead comrade, saying many kind 
things of one who is beyond the ])ale of human 
help or harm. The address was received with 
hearty applause. 



HOW BRANARD WAS PROMOTED. 



Interesting Chapter in Life of Hood's Brigade Secretary — Navasota Reunion — Old Soldiers 
Are Already on Hand in Numbers — Kittrell Will Deliver Oration — Special Train. 



(Special to the Chronicle.) 

Navasota, Texas, June 26. — Already the ad- 
vance of Hood's Texas Brigade on Navasota 
has begun. Veterans who once wore gray clothes, 
and who now also wear gray beards, are arriv- 
ing with the rapidity once represented in their 
forced marches and going into camp — this last 
purely figuratively speaking, as the veterans are 
in reality being quartered in the best homes in 
Navasota, where peace and plenty and Southern 
hospitality are showered upon them. Truly 
their dreadful marches have been changed to 
delightful meetings. The picture which Nava- 
sota presents may well recall to the minds of 
the veterans the stirring scenes which were en- 
acted when they were being mustered into the 
service. There are flags and bunting and music 
everywhere. Again the rumble of the drum is 
heard, but this time it does not speak a proph- 
ecy of coming trouble. Instead, the fanflares of 
flute and fife are signs which mark a "piping 
time of peace." Over war's grim visage the 



waving myrtle and beauteous rose speak over- 
tures to Eros and not to Mars. 

Signs of welcome span the streets, and 
words of like import are spoken on every side. 
Navasota is prepared to exceed the utmost ex- 
pectations and demands of hospitality. And 
the old soldiers assembled here are as proud of 
the welcome extended them as they were more 
than four decades ago of the plaudits, world- 
wide, which greeted their deathless devotion and 
dauntless daring. 

Officers of the Association this year are: E. 
K. Goree of Huntsville, President; H. T. Sapp 
of Houston, Vice-President; George A. Branard 
of Houston, perpetual Secretary and Treasurer. 
There is a vacancy in the office of Chaplain, 
Mat Beasley of Corsicana having answered the 
long roll call since the last gathering. 

About 300 names appear on the roster. A 
special effort is to be made at this meeting to 
correct the official records. Already Secretary 
Branard has the rolls of 14 of the 32 companies 



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wliich made up the three Texas regiments in 
Hood's Brigade. No efi'ort lias been made to 
secure the rolls of the regiment from Arkansas 
and the one from Georgia which made up 
the balance of the famous brigade, llno.l'; 
Texas Brigade Association was organized in 
Houston at a meeting held in the old Hutch- 
ins house in the late spring of 1872. At that 
meeting Bob Burns was elected Secretary and 
held that office continuously until his death in 
1895. That year at the Calvert meeting George 
A. Branard was elected Secretary and subse- 
quently was given the office perpetually. 



CAREER OF GEORGE A. BRANARD. 

The career of George A. Branard is one of 
the most interesting of the entire Confederate 
army. "I enlisted in Company L, First Texas 
Infantry, as a Fourth Corporal, and came back 
a disabled Color Sergeant," is all the account 
which Secretary Branard has ever been willing 
to give of his service in Hood's Brigade. But 
from General J. B. Polley, who once command- 
ed the Texas Department, United Confederate 
Veterans, additional details were obtained in 
regard to how Branard came to be a "di^^abled 
Color Sergeant." 

"Branard's promotion from Fourth Corporal 
to Color Sergeant occurred at Eltham's Land- 
ing, Va., known to the Federals as West Point," 
said General Polley. "The i)romotion was made 
on May 7, 1862, and occurred in this way: 
Thomas Nettles of Livingston, Texas, who I be- 
lieve is still living, was Color Sergeant of the 
First Regiment, with a guard of eight Corp- 
orals. He became impatient at the long delay in 
the opening of the first battle, and evidently be- 
lieved he was going to be denied the opportunity 
of shooting at a Yankee. During the skirmish 
he went down into a rifle pit to get his shooting 
chance. While he was shooting at the Yankees, 
they were also shooting at him, with the result 
that he received a bullet in the shoulder which 
made it impossible for him to longer carry the 
flag. He transferred it temporarily to Branard. 
In an engagement next day, Branard'' — this 
with a twinkle in the eye — "thinking he was 
going to the rear, got too far in front of the 
regiment to hear the command to halt and fall 
back. When some one shouted to him to fall 
back, he declared that the regiment could fall 

back if it wanted to, but he'd be d d if he 

fell back. The (Colonel heard the remark, and, 
admiring both its courage and spirit, ordered the 
regiment forward to form under the colors. 
And he then and there promoted Branard from 
Corporal to Color Sergeant. The Colonel was 
A. T. Rainey of Palestine. 



"That's how Branard came to be Color Ser- 
geant. How he came to be a 'disabled' one is 
another story. It happened at the battle of 
Gettysburg. Branard had carried the colors in 
advance of the regiment and in the face of a 
shell and rifle fire which was raking the regi- 
ment in a terrific manner. Only one other color 
bearer, and he was with a Georgia regiment, 
dared advance his colors as far afield as did 
Branard. As the Georgia sergeant planted his 
standard alongside that of Branard, the latter 
decided upon another advance. In the face of 
protests from every man who witnessed the act, 
he again advanced the Texas colors, and this 
time into the very teeth of the Federals. The 
daring act won the admiration of the enemy, 
and the command was passed down the line not 
to tire on the intrepid Texan. It was obeyed by 
the riflemen, but did not reach or was not heed- 
ed by the artillery. A screaming shell severed 
the flagstaff and a small piece of the missile 
struck Branard above the left eye. He still 
wears the scar and has never been able to use 
the eye since, the sight being totally destroyed. 
The wound did not cool Branard's fighting 
blood. With the shattered flagstaff still in his 
hand, he essayed to charge single-handed the 
entire Federal army, and would doubtless have 
done so had 1 e not lieen cai tured bv his own 
men and cai'ried off the fielil. 

"Branard was once reported dead. This was 
at Knoxville. In bearing his colors far in ad- 
vance of the regiment, he encounterel an im- 
mense fallen tree, too high to jump or even to 
climb over. He threw his colors over and at- 
tempted to crawl beneath the tree. It had been 
raining at a terrific rate and Branard, covered 
with mud and slime, became wedged beneath 
the tree. In the meantime some of his men 
found his colors. Out of this grew the report 
that he was dead." 



KITTREDL REUNION ORATOR. 

Judge Norman G. Kittrell of Houston will 
deliver the annual oration for Hood's Brigade 
Association, the invitation to do so having been 
unanimously extended by the Association. He 
will speak on Friday. 

On Thursday Senator Bailey will speak at a 
barbecue cjiven in honor of the Association. 



NAVASOTA READY. 

.TUDGE KITTRELL TELLS OF PREPARATIONS FOR 
THE REUNION. 

Judge Norman G. Kittrell was in Navasota 
yesterday and in discussing the ample prepara- 
tions made for entertainment, he said : 



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"Navasota is ready for every guest. The more 
there are the happier those hospitable people 
will be. 

"On my way home from Anderson yesterday I 
had to lay over there almost an hour, and the 
whole town is decorated, even the wheels of the 
job wagons are wreathed in red and white. 

"The ladies are all busy. There will be deli- 
cious food enough for ten thousand people. 

"The place of meeting is a densely shaded, 
beautiful, natural park, and every comfort will 
be provided. 

"A special train will be run from Madison- 
ville, 45 miles northeast, and it is estimated that 
it will take ten coaches to bring the crowd. 

"There has never been at one place in Texas 
as much to eat and as delightfully served as 
there will be in Navasota Thursday and Friday. 
The hospitality of those people knows no limit, 
and there will not be a cent of admission fee or 
a cent of charge for any of the pleasures that 
will be provided." 



SPECIAL TRAIN FROM HOUSTON. 

For the accommodation of the people of 
Houston and intermediate points who desire to 
attend the opening day of the Navasota re- 
union, the International and Great Northern 
Railroad has arranged to run a special train. It 
will leave Houston at G o'clock Thursday morn- 
ing and will leave Navasota in the evening 
after the conclusion of the day's festivities. 



Shell Bursted Under Head of Sleeping 

Captain George T. Todd, of 

Jefferson, Texas. 

My Dear Old Comrade: 

Enclosed find a page from my contribution to 
our common history. I intended sending you 
the entire sketch of our comrade, to remind the 
old boys how he stands, but forgot my paper 
this morning. So I just sketched this off, think- 
ing you might spring a surprise on Captain 
Bill Gaston. 



I remember very distinctly when we were be- 
fore Chattanooga, the night the Yanks came 
so near knocking your head off, when the shell 
came down through your tent and "busted" the 
knapsack which you were using for a pillow. If 
you think it would add any to the interest, use 
this note. I regret that I am sick and not able 
to come or send something of interest to the re- 
union. 

I have you down on my roll of honor, which 
will be used by a native Texan in his history of 
the old days." 

Excuse this very unsatisfactory offering. 
Most truly, 

J. 0. Bradfield, 
Company E, First Texas. 



A YOUNG CAPTAIN. 



Capt. W. H. Gaston, Conpany H, First Texas. 
By a Comrade. 

One of these of whom I will speak was known 
in those strenuous days as the "Boy Captain" 
of Company H, First Texas Eegiment. This 
lad was chosen by those who knew him best, as 
Captain of his company, before he was old 
enough to hold a commission. His older com- 
rades saw in him the making of a hero, and they 
were not disappointed, for he proved his met- 
tle. I have seen this lad in command of his 
company, all of whom were older than he, dash 
into the fray with all the nerve and vim of a 
trained veteran, when the very air was filled 
with death, and the earth upon which they 
trod was trembling with the mighty power of 
the engines of destruction turned upon them. 

Ah ! but it was a grand thing to see a youth 
like this inspire those who followed him with 
his own high spirit and lead them without a 
tremor into a very whirlpool of death and 
carnage. 

This lad was W. H. Gaston, the boy Captain 
of Company H, First Texas. That was the 
kind of boys we had in those daj^s to do honor 
to the Confederacy. 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



SPLENDID TRIBUTE TO SOUTHERN SOLDIERS. 

From "Life of Robert E. Lee," by Henry E. Shepherd. 



There can be found ever and anon some nar- 
row and sordid spirits who assume to deprecate 
as ill-advised and unpatriotic all reference to 
the late war between the states, and who are 
prone to deplore the result and talk about the 
South having done what she "thought" was 
right, and who are ready to 'let the past bury 
its dead," etc., but such as these are few. 

The broad-gauged, patriotic man, who takes 
pride in the achievements of the American sol- 
dier, who admires heroism, obedience to convic- 
tions and devotion to duty, is ready to pay trib- 
ute of praise where it is deserved, and we of the 
South know that our richest, priceless heritage 
of glory, worth more than all our farms and 
mines and fields in contributing to the true 
greatness of our land, is the record of her sons 
on the battlefield and on the march, a record 
unmatched and unmatehable In the annals of 
the world. 

The man, North or South, who is unwilling 
to hear or read the words of praise due that un- 
paralleled and dauntless army is too .email, too 
narrow, too bigoted, to be an American. 

In that splendid work, "Life of Robert E. 
Lee," by Dr. Henry E. Shepherd, will be found 
the following eloquent and truthful tribute to 
that incomparable body of soldiers which had 
Robert E. Lee for a leader : 

* * * The annals of war do not present 
a parallel in its highest and noblest atributes to 
the army commanded by Lee from June, 18(51, 
to April 9, 18G.5. It was the goodlie-t fellow- 
ship whereof the world holds record. No army 
created and organized since war attiiiued tho 
dignity of a science, and its modern form, su- 
perseded the era of feudalism and of chivalry 
has approached it in the character of its ele- 
ments, the range of culture embraced even in 
its rank and file, the social grace and winning 
personality that marked its history- from the pe- 
riod of its creation in 1861 to the climax of 
1865. So far as I am aware, there is no in- 
stance on record of abuse or insult inflicted 
upon a woman by a regularly enlisted soldier 
of the Army of Northern Virginia. Had .'^ncli 
an indignity ever occurred it would have been 
i)ruited about to the four winds as evidence of 
Ihe "strong clement of barliarity pervading tlie 
Southern character." 

The very silence of their enemies forever 
shields the fame of the men who followed the 
standard of Lee. 



It speaks more impressively than "angels' 
voices trumpet tongued." 

General Lee's own son, Robert, a student at 
the University of Virginit in 1860-1861, was a 
private in the Rockbridge Artillery, and all be- 
grimed with battle smoke was not recognized by 
his father when he encountered him upon the 
field of Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862. The 
last heir of Mount Vernon, who bore the name 
of Washington, was brought in dead from the 
field during the campaign in West Virginia in 
the autumn of 1861. 

There were in the ranks of Lee's army, with- 
out even a dream of preferment or advancement 
to nerve their energies or kindle their courage, 
men who had received the degrees of European 
centers of culture — renowned in all the world, 
who had studied at Bonn, Gottingen, Berlin, 
Edinburgh, and even in their days of dawn had 
impressed their foreign masters with the accu- 
racy and the versatility of their learning. Every 
American institution, from Harvard to the 
frontiers of the South were represented upon 
the rolls of that incomparable host. 

College professors mingled with college stu- 
dents at the mess and in camp; a week before 
the battle of Gettysburg I "dmed" in the bar- 
racks at Carlisle, Pa., with a former instructor 
under whose guidance I had threaded the dreary 
mazes of Xenophon's Anabasis. 

Many of the survivors of the strife have 
achieved a fame in scholarly or scientific spheres 
which overleaps local, and in brilliant instances 
even national, circumscription. 

In the sphere of legal, political and material 
advancement they are among the foremost forces 
that make for righteousness in all the complex 
and critical phases of our contemporary life. 

These, however, are merely isolated examples. 
Illustrations without number may be cited to 
attest to coming ages the incomparable charac- 
ter of the army that followed Lee from Kich- 
mond to tlie closing scene in April. 1865. The 
moral and intellectual strength of the Army of 
Northern Virginia has never been estimated at 
its real and surpassing value even by Southern 
people. 

Let us reinforce this broad and comprehen- 
sive statement by illustrations drawn from ex- 
perience — for all to whom T refer T had seen 
face to face — and some of them were the teach- 
ers or the associates of my youthful days. 

The most eminent classical scholar in Amer- 
ica, whose fame has gone out into all lands, Pro- 



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195 



fessor of Greek in the University of Virginia, 
became a volunteer aide upon the staff of Gen- 
eral John B. Gordon — and bears in his body the 
marks of his service. It was his colleague in 
the chair of Latin, Colonel William E. Peter;^, 
who inflexibly refused to carry out the order for 
the burning of Chambersburg, Pa. He disobeyed 
rather than tarnish the fair fame of the Confed- 
erate soldier. My Professor of Latin, prede- 
cessor of Colonel Peters, Lewis Minor Coleman, 
died of wounds received at Fredericksburg. 
* * * Universities, colleges — the ancient clas- 
sical academies — all poured out their hosts of 
aspiring and eager students, lads of 16, and 
youths who had barely attained legal age. The 
very flower of our chivalry lent its grace and 
charm to the rising Army of Northern Virginia. 
There were men in its newly formed ranks who 
have become the oracles of senates, the pillars of 
our judiciary, the champions of scholarship, the 
interpreters who have communed with nature 
and wrestled her secrets, prodigies of rhythmic 
skill and critical divination, masters of trade 
and commerce in all their subtle intricacies — 
lords of the visible world. * * * j might 
easily compose a volume in the mere process of 
demonstrating that no army the world has seen 
represented so great and varied a range of in- 
tellect and attainment as that which followed 
the fortunes, and glorified the name of Lee. Th.' 
humblest high private in the rear rank displayed 
an individuality of character such as defies all 
precedent and transcends the records of the 
ages. 

Organization did not eliminate individual 
distinctness ; solidarity only stimulated the sense 
of personality and conserved it in the lowliest. 
Every man felt that he carried the cause of 
the South on his bayonet. 

The amazing achievements of Lee"s army may 
be traced in no slight degree to the existence of 
these moral and intellectual influences. Com- 
manded by such a spirit and directed by such a 



man as Lee, no power save ceaseless impact 
could have led to the final result. It was not gen- 
ius, but surpassing strength that rendered Ap- 
pomattox an inevitable conclusion. * * * 

I have seen the marshalled hosts of France 
and Germany, and explored with assiduous care 
their modes and tactical systems, their disposi- 
tions, the elements of their strength, the sources 
of their achievements. * * * j looked 
when a wounded prisoner upon the Armj- of 
the Potomac, at the palmiest stage of its event- 
ful story — with an organization unsurpassed in 
the records of war. 

When I contemplate Lee's army in the light 
of boyish retrospective, or in ripening years as 
calm analysis prevails over uncritical enthus- 
iasm, all the embattled hosts of European lands 
seem to hide their diminished heads. 

There is not an army in the world today the 
peer of that which Lee inspired and guided 
from June, 1862, to April, 1865. Man for 
man no host could grapple with them in con- 
flict, for none that has arisen since war at- 
tained its modern form contained in so marvel- 
ous a degree all the characteristics and attrib- 
utes that mark the ideal soldier. * * * 

When I contemplate the strange eventful 
history of this foremost army of all the world the 
somber and august vision of the prophet arises 
before me — and his words, doubly rich in the 
massive eloquence of the Shakespearean day, ac- 
quire a significance and a relevance that invest 
them with renewed sacredness to the lovers of 
our Southern story — 

"Come from the four winds, 0, breath, and 
breathe upon these slain, that they may live." 

"So I prophesied as he commanded me, and 
the breath came unto them — and they lived and 
stood up upon their feet an exceeding great 
army." 

"Wliatever record leaps to light 
Thev never shall be shamed." 



Former Attempts of Hood's Brigade to Write a History, Perfect 

Rolls, and Erect a Monument. 



At first reunion in 1873, committees were ap- 
pointed to collect data for history, urge all 
comrades to strive for perfect rolls and to de- 
vise means for monument. At every subse- 
quent reunion reports were made as to progress. 

Beunion held at Brenham, June 22d, 1881, 
reported. "We are busy with a view to a com- 
pilation of a complete and reliable history of 



the brigade from its organization to its dis- 
bandment, and of the Brigade Association 
from the date of its organization. 

We have found that the number of wounds 
received hy members of the brigade was equal 
to the full number of names on. the roll." 

This report was received and committee con- 
tinued, with instructions to select a compiler of 
historv. J. B. Policy offered a resolution that 



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report of the Historical Committee be jiub- 
lished as a guide to membera 

General J. B. Eobertson, Chairman of 
Historical Committee, rejjorted that Mr. H. 
Castle, who was present, had agreed to pub- 
lish 500 copies of their historical papers for 
$75.00. Same was accepted and a payment 
was made Mr. Castle and his receipt taken. 
Printing was to be turned over to the Secretary 
and by him sent to each comrade at twenty-five 
cents per copy. 

At Reunion held at San Antonio, June 27 
and 28, 1883. General Robertson made further 
report as Chairman of Historical Committee as 
follows : 

"Much of the manuscript rficeived is so illeg- 
ible that Committee will have to ask further 
time before printing can be done." Also death 
of Colonel Winkler made it impossible to re- 
port. Wm. Burgess was then made Chairman 
and Haywood Brahan added to the committee, 
and further time granted. 

At same reunion Monument Committee re- 
ported that monument decided on wa,s to be "a 
marble shaft, erected in the capitol grounds at 
Austin, to be 25 feet high, on a stone base in- 
scribed as follows: "To the memory of Brig- 
adier General J. B. Hood"; upon the opposite 
side : "Brigadier General John Gregg," with the 
date of their respective deaths. Also : "In mem- 
ory of the dead of Hood'.s Texas Brigade,' and, 
"To our fallen Comrades," and that all the 
battles the brigade was engaged in be inscribed 
on monument, if possible, and that J. A. Nagle, 
W. C. Walsh, Val C. Giles, Isaac Stein, George 
L. Robertson of Austin be named a committee 
to have said work done as soon as means can be 
raised to do it. ^lajor Robert Burns was in- 
structed to mail letters to every comrade, asking 
contributions; that same be forwarded to him 
and by him paid over to above Monument Com- 
mittee. 

By the Committee, 

J. H. Worthing, Co. I, First Texas. 
Ben M. Baker, Co. B, Fifth Texas. 
E. H. Cunningham, Fourth Texas. 



When reunion met at Cameron, June 27th, 
1885, renewed attempts were made to perfect 
rolls and write history as following from min- 
utes of that reunion show : 

"The committee on ■ perpetuating Hood's 
Brigade was continued until next meetinir. W. 
H. Burgess, W. C. Walsh and W. B. Wall, com- 
mittee. 

"On motion the following resolutions by 
Judge B. W. Rimes was adopted : 

"Whereas, No steps have yet been taken 



to publish a complete history of Hood's Brigade 
with the personal reminiscences, deeds, exploits 
of its individual members, and, 

"Whereas, The same is true of other Texas 
commands in the Confederate army, and, 

"Whereas, It is deemed of the greatest im- 
portance that all the coming ages of our poster- 
ity should know the real truth of the history of 
the exploits and heroism of Hood's Brigade and 
of other Texas commands; therefore, 

"Be it resolved: 1st, That a committee of 
five be appointed to take such steps and make 
such arrangements as in their judgment may 
seem proper to procure the publication of a full 
account and complete history of Hood's Brigade 
and of its individual members. 

"2d. That at the reunion of ex-Confederates 
to be held at Fort Worth on August — , 1885, 
such organization be requested to co-operate 
with said committee for publication of such his- 
tory and also for the publication of the history 
of all other Texas commands and of their in- 
dividual members. 

"3d. That a copy of these resolutions with 
the preamble, be placed before the reunion of 
e.x-Confcderates on August nest." 

"The committee is as follows: Judge B. W. 
Rines, W. C. Walsh, R. H. Skinner, H. 
Brahan, General J. B. Robertson. 



Many reunions followed without success as to 
rolls, monument or history, until all seem to 
have been dropped and no further mention 
made, until reunion at Somerville in 1906, and 
it is remarkable that at sixteenth reunion held 
at Cameron in 1885 last effort was made and at 
Cameron, in 1911, the fortieth reunion will cel- 
ebrate the completion of all the cherished hopes 
of the Association, viz., rolls, history and monu- 
ment. 



General J. B. Robertson, former Commander 
of Hood's Texas Brigade, succeeded himself for 
many years as President of Hood"s Texas Bri- 
gade Association and at reunion which met at 
Austin, June 27th and 28th, 1887, he was unan- 
imously declared President for life, at same 
time Major J. H. Littlefield was made Vice- 
President for life. 

The election of General Robertson President 
for life was a wise move on part of the Asso- 
ciation. But for him it would probably never 
have existed. He instigated its call and organ- 
ization in 1872, and there remained with him 
the same love for his old command tliat marked 
every moment of his connection with them, and 
had never ceased during separation, and which 
had bound him to them, closer and closer, as re- 
construction days marched oppressively on. 



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None but such spirits at General Eobertson and 
Colonel Winkler would have shown such fidelity. 
Often reunions and reunion interest dwindled 
and numbers were few, but these two officers of 
the Association manifested no abatement of 
their zeal and fidelity to the last, when the grim 
reaper took them to their reward. Very soon 
after the death of General Robertson and 
Colonel Winkler, reunions began to lag in at- 
tendance and interest. At Florcsville, in 1885, 
attendance was only 29. At Austin in 1899 — 
even though it was capital of State, and State 
reunion there at same time — attendance was 
only 48; and in 1905, at Corsicana, only 58. It 
was determined prior to reunion at Somerville, 
in 1906, that something must be done to awaken 
survivors to interests of not only the Associa- 
tion, but as to the debt the living owed their 
dead comrades. For months before time of re- 
union both the public press and tbe mails were 
kept teeming with patriotic calls for every liv- 
ing comrade to meet at Somerville, and same 
tactics have been followed as to last five re- 
unions — Somerville, Navasota, Jack^^onville, 
Jefferson and Austin, with result that attend- 
ance has been from 100 to 130 — even though 
the death rate is continually on the increase. 

Impressed with great improvement in attend- 
ance and interest, and bright future there still 
seemed for survivors of the brigade, and en- 
thused with still greater determination on ac- 
count of wonderful success attained in four 
years, wherein history, rolls and monument had 
become an actual reality, the writer mapped out 
a future course for the Association, which he 
signally failed to carry out at late Austin re- 
union. He knew interest would now be hard to 
keep up, that all aims would seem to have been 
accomplished and further zeal unnecessary. He 
remembered how bard it had been to get com- 
rades to serve as officers, and without reflection 
on anyone, remembered how many "Presidents" 
never gave a thought, wrote or replied to a let- 
ter, or accomplished a thing to the advantage or 
betterment of the Association during their 
whole incumbency. He also recognized the fact 
that from now on the Association could not 
run itself and that it would require good, sound 
judgment and management to keep the Asso- 
ciation in the eyes and minds of the people; 
have a place to meet, and as the number became 
fewer, have some kind of a prepared and estab- 
lished authority to herald the death of the last 
member, and file the closed roll. He was sure 
it was the part of Texas, its people, and her 
capital city to undertake the care of the survi- 
vors of Hood's Texas Brigade. He felt that as 
the brigade rolls were on deposit and monu- 
ment erected at Austin, that there was where 



the Association should meet until its labors were 
closed forever. So he interviewed every agency 
and secured gilt-edged invitations for next re- 
union to be held at Austin with a view to 
make selection permanent, knowing full well 
that every care would be taken in future to look 
well to the welfare of every survivor of the 
brigade, as long as there was one left. He had 
this as a solemn promise, and he knew it would 
be kept. He also had in his mind the election 
of a President for life, who that President 
should be, and in his acceptance to place upon 
him the entire and heavy responsibility of the 
future of Hood's Texas Brigade Association. 
His plan failed, but he has not yet entirely 
given up the idea that now, more than ever, wise 
plans must be arranged to safely care for the 
life of our Association and the sure death of all 
of its members in the very near and certain 
future. The writer is not sorry next reunion 
will be at Cameron, and he trusts and believes it 
will be one of the very best. Not only will the 
grand citizens of Cameron do their best to make 
it a banner reunion, but the remembrance we 
have of what they did for us twenty-six years 
ago tells us how grandly they will succeed. 
Our comrades have a high incentive to be there 
without fail, and if there is gratitude in every 
heart, if they cherish the memory of dead com- 
rades, if they are proud of the record the brig- 
ade made and truly grateful for the glorious 
victory of rolls, history and monument we have 
just scored, they will every one be at Cameron 
on June 28th and 29th, 1911, to again celebrate 
our grand success and to pledge renewed efforts 
for a still more perfect ending. 

Who Shall be our standard bearer and 
answer "here" for Hood's Texas Brigade? 

Brothers ! when our cannons rust are. 
And all our comrades dust are. 
Who shall pierce the tears and laughter 
Of the days to come hereafter 
With the telling of his story? 
Whose the triumph and tlie glory. 
Who shall be chiefiest in the vanguard? 
Who shall wave Hood's Texas Brigade stand- 
ard? 

My comrades, you are all familiar with that 
incident in history where a distinguished soldier 
performed prodigies of valor and on account of 
a particular service it was ordered and main- 
tained long after his death that when the roll 
of his company was called, a Sergeant stepped 
forward an answered "here" to his name. Even 
so must history be recorded as to Hood's Texas 
Brigade. The youngest of us are nearing sev- 
enty years of age; five years more will about 



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mark the last of our reunions, and in ten years 
more, reasonably, the last one of us will be gone. 
While we yet have power of mind and strength 
of body, we should so shape the future that after 
we are no more, a semblance of our earthly re- 
unions shall be religiously kept up. 

We should make our last will and testa- 
ment and appoint an able and patriotic friend 
or agency who tlirough himself and his success- 
ors shall answer "here"' on the 27th of every 
June, in honor of Hood's Texas Brigade. There 
will be plenty to meet, speeches will be made, 
prayers offered, songs sung, history read and all 
things done by patriotic descendants and friends 
to forever keep alive the glory and record of the 



brigade. This can and ought to be done before 
it is too late, and I trust it will be thought of by 
readers of these pages and that some comrade 
will draft a suitable resolution, placing our fu- 
ture in the hands of some faithful agency. It 
must be the duty of some duly constituted au- 
thority, else it would never become effective. 

That the good Lord may lovingly watch over 
and tenderly care for every survivor of Hood's 
Texas Brigade, cause all their lives to fall in 
pleasant places, ordain their last moments to be 
their best, and safely bring each one to a joyful 
reunion at Cameron in body or spirit is the 
ardent wish and fervent prayer of a comrade, 
who has you in thought by day and night. 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE AND THE RECORD IT MADE 



Galveston, Texas, June 23. — On Thursday 
and Friday there will be gathered at Jackson- 
ville, Texas, the shattered remnants of Hood's 
Texas Brigade. The people of Jacksonville, ap- 
preciating the honor done them by the brigade, 
have made extensive and elaborate preparations 
to entertain them and not one should fail to be 
present, for aside from the social and fraternal 
features there is much important business to be 
disposed of. 

The war has been over a long time now. 
Many changes have taken place since Appomat- 
tox, a new generation has grown into manhood 
and new thoughts and ideas have taken place of 
old ones, and yet the forty odd years that h;ive 
intervened since Hood's Brigade laid down its 
arms after a four-years' struggle have not 
dimmed their glorious record. 

Incidents and individuals are nearly forgot- 
ten perhaps and here and there acts of personal 
bravery and heroism may be entirely obliterated, 
but as a whole the glory of the brigade and the 
pride of the people in its achievements are as 
great today as they were when footsore, half- 
starved, weak and weary, these heroes straggled 
home to accomplish as great feats in peieeful 
civic life as they had accomplished on the bloody 
fields of Virginia. 

During these forty odd years other wars have 
occurred and new records have been made, but 
none equal to those of 18fil-65. Our own coun- 
try has had a war with Spain which an old 
Yankee veteran aptly described as "target prac- 
tice." That war, however, produced a fine crop 
fif heroes, and for a time the whole country in- 
dulged unrcstrainediv in hero worship. Then 
the reaction set in and the heroes dropped out of 
sight, or, what was worse, were laughed at and 



hid themselves. Then Japan and Eussia fought 
and the world again grew hysterical over the 
really magnificent fighting qualities of the Jap- 
anese, saying: "The Japs love to die." Perhaps 
this was literally true, but it wa,s their religion, 
which teaches them that a man killed in battle 
is shot right into one of the choicest seats in 
heaven, and not the cool bravery and genuine 
gallantry of our soldiers that moved them to do 
what thev did. 



WERE READY TO DIE. 

I seriously doubt if there was a man in 
Hood's Brigade who wanted to die, but I know 
there was not one of them who was not ready to 
die if duty demanded it. They were not depend- 
ing on such a death to get them to heaven, 
either, for if the truth be told they feared a 
passport to the other place more than they dared 
hope for a free passage to heaven. However, 
that had no influence on them one way or the 
other; neither forced them to the cannon's 
mouth or drew them behind stone walls or 
trees. Theirs was moral courage and bravery 
of the highest order. 

At Gaines' Mill, after the attack on McLen- 
nans line had been repulsed with great slaugh- 
ter, Hood's attention was drawn to the strength 
of the position and he was asked if it could be 
taken. His reply was that it could be fciken 
and that he would do so. Placing himself at 
the head of the Fourth Texas, he made the at- 
tack, not waiting for the other regiments of the 
brigade, but sending orders for them to follow. 
The carnage was awful, but the position was 
taken and the Federal line was broken. 

Were ever the Japs more anxious to die than 
were the members of the Fourth Texas when 



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they went into that fiery hell with their eyes 
open and knowing what they were doing? 

At the second battle of Manassas General 
Hood was called from the field for a moment. 
He issued an order that his brigade should hold 
its position until his return ; that if attacked 
they should drive the enemy back across the 
creek, but to halt there. Soon after he left the 
enemy attacked, concentrating their attention 
on the Fifth Texas. The troopers making the 
attack were the famous New York Zouaves, 
who had been placed in front of the Texans at 
their own request. The Fifth Texas repulsed 
them with awful slaughter. The Zouaves were 
almost annihilated. The Fifth drove the rem- 
nant back to the creek, but did not stop there 
as Hood had ordered. They crossed the creek 
and attacked the Federals, supporting the line, 
driving it back, too. They pushed on, mount- 
ing the hill and capturing a strong battery sta- 
tioned on its crest, sweeping its supiwrt away 
like chaff before a gale. 



THE FIFTH AT MANASSAS. 

When Hood got back he did not find them 
like good and obedient boys fighting on their 
side of the creek; instead he found them a 
mile or so on the other side, fighting the whole 
Yankee army and doing it in style, too. Of 
course, they had disobeyed orders, but they had 
won, and instead of abusing them Hood told 
them the truth, "Boys, I'm proud of you." Were 
the Japs more anxious to die than were the 
members of the Fifth at Manassas? 

The Fourth and Fifth gained their laurels 
by making brilliant charges in the face of al- 
most certain death, for in each instance they 
were opposed by overwhelming force-. 



THE FIRST AT SHARPSBtmG. 

It was reserved for the First to give to the 
world an exhibition of cool courage and to un- 
dergo that hardest of all tests — endurance. At 
Sharpsburg for hours the First Texas held a 
position that was of vital importance to General 
Lee. They knew that it must be held at all 
cost, even though every man should be slaugh- 
tered. The idea of their driving the enemy back 
an inch never entered their heads. They knew 
they were simply a human wedge placed there 
by General Lee to prevent the Federal advance. 
There was no faltering. They simply stayed 
there and did what Lee had placed them there 
to do, though at such frightful loss that today 
the military records of all civilized nations on 
earth have recorded the fact that the First 
Texas Eegiment lost over 82 per cent, of its 



members at Sharpsburg, the largest record for 
any regiment in any army. 

When did the Japs ever show greater eager- 
ness to die than did the First Texas at Sharp- 
burg? 

Thus it will be seen that each of the Texas 
regiments in Virginia had an opportunity of re- 
flecting honor on the whole brigade, and that 
each seized the opportunity. 

The First Texas at Sharpsburg. 
The Fourth Texas at Gaines' Mill. 
The Fifth Texas at Manassas. 



RECORD OF THE BRIGADE. 

But, to my mind, as grand and glorious as 
were the records made by the individual regi- 
ments, that made by the brigade as a whole sur- 
passes them all. 

The night following the great battle of the 
Wilderness, Grant attempted a turn on Lee's 
right and make his way to Eichmond. Lee 
knew of Grant's intended movement, and or- 
dered Longstreet's Corps to his (Lee's) right. 
Near the pike road down which Longstreet was 
moving two brigades had liecn working all night 
throwing up breastworks. Tired out after a 
hard day's fighting and a weary night of work, 
the soldiers had fallen asleep in the trenches 
after completing them. Suddenly, without 
warning, they were attacked by Grant's advance 
and were driven back in confusion, blocking the 
road so that Longstreet could not pass. Hood's 
Brigade was in advance, at tie head of Long- 
street's column. General Lee ordered General 
Gregg to cross the works and "drive those people 
back." 

Gregg formed his brigade outside the breast- 
works and was preparing to advance when he 
was horrified to see General Lee ride up. Lee 
knew how desperate the situation was and how 
much depended on the Texas Brigade at that 
moment. 

"Can't you drive those people back. General?" 
he asked. 

"Yes, and we will do so, but you must not 
remain here in such an exposed position," said 
Gregg. 



HOW GREGG LED A CHARGE. 

General Lee saluted and rode otf, going down 
the line behind the brigade. When he reached 
a point between the First and Fourth Texas 
regiments he turned his horse as if to go to the 
front. Instantly he was recognized, and a shout 
went up : "Go back, General Lee. Go back. 
This is no place for you. We know what you 
want us to do and we will do it." Half a dozen 



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soldiers seized his horse. General Lee hesitated 
a moment, then pulling his hat down over his 
eyes to conceal the tears that filled them, rode 
slowly to the rear. Scarcely had he gone when 
General Gregg ordered the advance, but "those 
people," as General Lee always called the Fed- 
erals, opened the ball themselves with a deadly 
fire which did much damage. Gregg's horse 
was shot down, but he, seizing a small branch 
from a tree, led the charge with no other weapon 
in his hand. The Federals were in the woods 
and were in three lines of battle, and were pro- 
tected by a thick wood, while the Texans wer" 
exposed in the open to a deadly fire. They 
swept onward, however, though their ranks 
were thinned at every step. They drove the first 
line back on the second and then drove the first 
and second back on the third ; here, however, 
they could make no further advance because of 
the overwhelming numbers confronting them. 
To add to the peril of the situation they had ad- 
vanced so far that they had beaten in the front 
and left the two wings of the Federal lines lap- 
ping over on their right and left, so that they 
were exposed to fire from in front and on both 
flanks. It was a horrible situation and they fell 
like leaves before an autumn wind, but there 
was no thought of falling hack to a safer posi- 



tion. They knew General Lee wanted the posi- 
tion held and the advance of Grant's force 
checked, they knew also that they had promised 
General Lee that they would do it, and thry 
were willing to die to a man rather than break 
their words. They were not fresh troopers, but 
veterans, and knew as well as General Lee knew 
what they were doing and what depended on 
them. They knew that 700 men weie holding 
Grant's army in check and that they must do it 
to the bitter end and they did it, too. T. ey 
went into the fight about 700 strong and when 
reinforcements, sent forward by Longstrcet. 
reached them, they found over 400 of the Tex- 
ans dead or wounded. 

It was not a great battle, measured by time, 
but it was one of the greatest f ver fought so far 
as results, for Grant's advance was check' d. 
Lee's army and Richmond were s;ived. 

It is the few surviving members of this glo- 
rious brigade, who will hold their reunion in 
Jacksonville on the 25th and 26th of this month 
and not only the citizens of Jacksonville, bit 
those of the whole State should rise up and 
honor them, for they have upheld the name of 
Texas on a hundred battlefields and added to 
that glory^ achieved by Travis and his noble 
band at the Alamo. S. 0. Young. 



A PRECIOUS RELIC. 



On the wall above the mantel 

There's an ancient weapon hung. 
Tarnished, dusty, old and rusty, 

Springfield pattern, sixty-one; 
And the spiders, all unconscious 

Of its power, upon it cratvl, 
And have webbed it, breech and muzzle, 

Where it hangs upon the wall. 

Could it speak 'twould tell a story 

That would startle young and old. 
Tales of long and weary marches 

Could that weapon true unfold; 
Tales of battle, tales of carnage 

That would blanch the bravest cheek 
From Bull Run to Appomattox, 

Could that ancient weapon speak. 

Dear indeed is that old musket, 

It had sure voice long ago. 
Not a friend so true and trusty 

On the field to meet the foe. 



Then it spoke and to a purpose. 
Fiery was the tale it told ; 

Leaden was tlw fearful message 
From that weapon grim and old. 

And I love it — who can blame nie? 

It and I were closest chums, 
Old and rusty, tried and trusty, 

Best of all your make of guns. 
Comrades dead and comrades living 

It reminds me of you all ; 
Elbows touch whene'er I view it 

As it hangs upon the wall. 

Brings again your kindly faces 

From that distant long ago. 
When we faced the storm of battle 

On the field to meet the foe. 
On the wall above the mantel 

There's an ancient weapon hung, 
Tarnished, dusty, worn and rusty, 

Springfield pattern, sixty-one. 



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TO OUR UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE DEAD. 



In looking back over the annals of the world's 
history, we find that from the beginning of his- 
toric time it has been the custom of all nations 
to perpetuate in song and dance and the sculp- 
tor's marble the memories of their illustrious 
dead who have won renown on the field of bat- 
tle. Far back in the dim mystery of the buried 
past, when the light of civilization had just 
begun to shed its radiant beam over ancient 
Greece, Homer, in his blind old age, went from 
village to village, singing the exploits of Gre- 
cian gods and Grecian heroes. Mark Antony, 
in the Eoman senate, exposed the wounds of 
murdered Csesar, and the people wept and cried 
for vengeance, for this was the man who had 
led them with their banners floating triumph- 
Bntly over so many hard fouglit battlefields. 

The remains of the great Napoleon, after 
lying for twenty years wrapped amid the clay of 
St. Helena, were borne back on a golden barge 
and in the midst of a nation's shouts and a 
nation's tears were buried on the banks of tiie 
river Seine among the people he loved so well. 
And we, of the fallen Confederacy, have our 
noble, our lamented Lee, whose name will ever 
have its resting place in the heart of every true 
Southerner as one of the grandest leaders of any 
age or clime. Wlierever the English tongue is 
heard, it may be in the wild and dense jungles 
of Africa or in the semi-civilized land of Bor- 
neo ; it may be in some savage island in the 
wide expanse of the ocean wild or in the snow- 
cap regions of the Esquimaux's home, the name 
of Robert E. Lee will be loved with undying de- 
votion. I am proud to know that the people of 
our country are not so destitute of refinements 
and lasting gratitude as to fail to give due 
praise to those noble heroes who commanded on 
the field of glory. And we, believing as we do, 
would not attempt to pluck one single laurel 
from a Southern hero's brow. They were as brave 
and true as ever drew the battle blade, and those 
who live in ages yet to come will read with ad- 
miration and love of their Spartan-like bravery 
and strive to emulate their heroic deeds. But 
while we sing our praise to those whose names 
are written on the pages of history, we should not 
forget that there were others with hearts equally 
as true and hands equally as willing, whose 
names are not enrollerl on Fa:ne"s imperishable 
tablet. What has made the name of Jackson 
more endurable tlian the statue which marks the 
spot where our hero lies ? The answer is writ- 
ten in golden letters on Southern history's 
brightest pages ; because he stood like a wall of 
Btone on the bloodv field of Manas.sas. We must 



attribute the main cause of his lasting glory to 
his ragged, half-starved soldiers, who, by their 
undaunted courage, crowned his career with so 
many brilliant victories. Go to the blood- 
stained hills of old Virginia, approach the mar- 
ble column upon whose summit rests the image 
of our immortal Lee, as if thinking of that his- 
toric spot where the cherished hopes of his peo- 
ple were cast beneath oblivion's darkest wave, 
and ask him to give you an example of true 
Southern chivalry. Methinks if the noble image 
could utter its seeming thoughts, the answer 
would come back to our ears, "Go to the blood- 
drenched field of Gettysburg and look upon the 
silent tombs of the unlcnown Confederate dead." 
Wlien the wrongs and oppositions that were be- 
ing heaped upon our people could no longer be 
endured, when the lowering cloud of fratricidal 
strife, hanging like a poison mantle over onr 
land of flowers, had burst upon us in all of its 
fur}-, who, I ask, were the first to respond to 
their countrj^'s call? Was it Eobert E. Lee or 
Stonewall Jackson? Was it Joseph E. or Al- 
bert Sidney Johnston? No. Go to the silent 
crepe-crested homes on Southern soil, turn to 
the right or to the left of your own home and 
there ask of that mother, whose head is yet low- 
ered in grief for her gallant boy; ask of the 
wives made widows and the children made or- 
phans; ask of that heart-broken maiden who 
watched many weary hours, though watched in 
vain, for the return of her warrior lover, ask 
these and they will tell you of those brave, he- 
roic souls, who by thir daring courage won for 
themselves and their leaders never dying fame. 
But, mother, weep not in grief for your sainted 
boy, but rather like the Spartan mother in the 
days of old, weep for joy, for he died a hero's 
death and now sleeps in a hero's grave. 

You may tell me of Grecian courage or 
Roman valor, but chivalry never had a truer 
representative than those heroic spirits that took 
their flight from the ranks of the unknown 
Confederate dead to mingle with the gems of 
heaven. Ask of those whose lives were spared 
from the fate of their departed comrades if man 
ever endured more for the acquirement of lib- 
erty and maintenance of right than those who 
fell around them for four long years; the an- 
swers will come back, not only from them but 
from the isles across the sea, and further still 
from the pearly gates of the white city of God, 
"No, forever no." These brave men struggled, 
poured out their blood and surrendered their 
lives for the cause they loved. 

But where do their ashes rest? Where are 



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the boys who, at tlie sound of "Dixie's"' call, 
shouldered their muskets and bid farewell to the 
happy scenes of their childhood days? Where 
are the thousands, who, suffering the pangs of 
hunger and thirst, laid not down their arms 
until they laid them down in death ? They sleep 
in peace, we know not where, and although they 
sleep that sleep that knows no waking, with 
nothing to mark their resting place save the 
pearls and corals of Neptune's bed and the flow- 
ers that are planted above their graves by the 
gentle hand of nature's god, vet cm we, will 
we forget that patriotism that defied danger and 
held life not dear in defense of honor, home and 
country; which kindled in their soul tlie sacred 
and quenchless fires of patriotic devotion to 
duty, I answer, "No, never." 'ttHiat was there 
precious in the ties of affection, sundered by 
them never to be renewed on earth, which they 
did not sacrifice for us? They poured out their 
blood freely for what they l)elieved to be right. 
And here the pathetic line of the old Koman 
poet comes vividly to our mind — a line worthy 
to be inscribed over the gateway where the un- 
known Confederate dead lie sleeping: "Hi 
bene pro patre, cum patria que jacent." '"Thev 
lie dead for their country and with their coun- 
try." Yes. the Confederacy is dead, but the 
memories of the men who died for it and with it 
are not dead; their ralor, their endurance, their 
self-sacrifice, their sublime devotion to duty, 
these can never die. 



Ye sous of an advancing age ! Ye have lav- 
ished wealth on the graves of Jackson and 
Johnson. You have Lee to mingle with the 
skies, and while you are building a marble shaft 
to Jefl'erson Davis, our illustrious chieftain, 
forget not to bulid a tomb to our Unknown 
Confederate Dead. Unk-nown, perhaps, in 
name, but not in deed. Forgotten? Bead the 
answer in the faces of their comrades to- 
day and write it on the heart-tablets of their 
posterity. 

Sons and daughters of Confederate veterans, 
these memories of honor, valor and patriotism 
are fast becoming your heritage. Fast, ah, too 
fast, the dark-winged courier is summoning the 
Old Guard to retire from life's battlefield to the 
peaceful home of the true and brave. Not one 
of them today but who has the silver 
starlight of ripening age on his brow. Those 
who gather next year will miss the face of 
some loving comrade who has gone to join the 
great eternal reunion, where he shall meet and 
greet those brave souls whose name no chiseled 
marble preserves. 

And while we cannot stay the relentless 
march of hoary time nor clog the wheels of 
his death chariot we can vow eternal respect for 
their bravery and heroism, eternal love for their 
unparalleled sacrifice and eternal defense for 
their homes and their honor. 



SECOND ANNUAL REUNION HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 
AT BARTON SPRINGS, AUSTIN, TEXAS. 



The reunion of Hood's Brigade on the 27tli 
at Barton Springs, was an occasion of rare 
merit. The day was in commemoration of the 
battle of Gaines' Mill, in which Hood's Brigade 
won imperishable honors in a heroic charge 
never excelled in history of sanguinary battles. 
Napoleon's heroes wavered in the face of the 
death-dealing storm of leaden hail at Lodi, and 
by his personal leadership accomjilished a feat 
of valor, rendering the command immortal, but 
the charge of Hood's men at Gaines' Mill was 
a more brilliant feat of arms than that of Lodi, 
and quite as destructive, while attended with 
as great success. It was heie that John Mar- 
shall, the former editor of the State Gazette, 
fell at the head of his regiment and Lieutenant- 
Colonel Bradfute Warwick, while leading the 
charge with colors in hand, fell mortally 
wounded, and Captain Key, senior Captain, was 
wounded. The Fourth Texas, out of five hun- 



dred and twenty men, had eighty left, in the 
short, incisive charge of about fifteen minutes. 
It was in this battle that Captain Walsh was 
wounded and Kobert Lambert was crippled, 
from which he subsequently died. In the giant 
struggle between Lee and McLellan, Hood's 
Brigade saved Richmond. Of the 3,900 of the 
First, Fourth and Fifth Texas regiments, who 
went forth to battle, there are only 300 survi- 
vors. And there is scarcely one of those left 
who does not wear the marks of blows aimed at 
bis country. There were of the forty-four pres- 
ent at the reunion, three who had lost limbs, of 
whom our comrade I. Stein was one, and a num- 
ber permanently crippled for life. The official 
report of the Association is published elsewhere. 
Colonel C. M. Winkler, General Robertson, Cap- 
tain Walsh and others, made speeches appropri- 
ate to the occasion. The dinner was superb^ the 
Austin brass band discoursed martial airs, and 



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everything passed oflf in the most agreeable man- 
ner. Dr. Jones, of Gonzales, a surgeon of the 
command of high character, was present. But 
while these veterans were celebrating their 
hardships and glories, one of their number, the 
spirit of the gallant Captain Sydney Mojeley. 
who had lost a leg in the service, took its flight 
from earth. And thus are passing away the he- 
roes of the late war. At ea-ch succe^sive roll 



call, in these reunions, the number will be less- 
ened, until the last heroic spirit will have taken 
its everlasting flight. But the history of their 
noble deeds will live as long as earth shall last 
and they will be honored to the latest posterity. 
They fought for the principles for which Wash- 
ington fought and freemen died in '7G, and that 
principle was the right of man to govern him- 
self. 



MORE ABOUT U. C. V. TITLES. 



Much has been said and written about the un- 
warranted use of military titles by the United 
Confederate veterans, and the end of the silly 
practice, it is truly hoped, is in sight, for it is 
believed that next reunion at Little Rock, Ark., 
will abolish it. 



CUT OUT THE TITLES. 



Confederate Camp Declares Against Them. Would 

Abolish all Appellations Except Those Actually 

Won in the Service. 

New Orleans, August 10. — A resolution that 
will stir Confederate organizations all over the 
country was adopted by Camp No. 2, Army of 
Tennessee, today, abolishing all titles except 
those actually won in the service of the Confed- 
eracy. The resolution, in part, declares: 

"That this camp now distinctly expresses the 
disinclination to approve in any way the con- 
ferring of unwarranted rank and surplus mili- 
tary titles, as being unnecessary, inequitrtble, 
confusing and detrimental hereafter to h's'or- 
ieal accuracy. That the appellation of Major 
General, Brigadier General and of Coloue', 
Lieutenant Colonel and Major, etc., of the staffs 
be hereafter dispensed with and prohibited.'' 



TO ABOLISH TITLES. 



Army of Virginia Follows Tennessee V'eterans' Action. 

Camp No. 1, Army of Northern Virginia, 
United Confederate Veterans, followed the ex- 
ample of Camp No. 2, Army of Tennessee, 
United Confederate Veterans, and passed leso- 
lutions recommending to the State convention 
of the Louisiana division of the United Confed- 
erate Veterans the abolishing of all superfluous 
titles among the officers of the confed(?ratii>n. 
The resolutions read : 

"Resolved, That it is the sense of Camp No. 
1, United Confederate Veterans, that the use of 



high military titles of rank as now exist in the 
United Confederate Veterans, is unnecessary, 
and that those of commander-in-chief, depart- 
ment commander. State commander and camp 
commander are sufficient. 

"Resolved, That no officer in the United Con- 
federate Veterans be designated by a higher 
title than that borne by him during the period 
of the war during 1861-1865 in the Confederate 
army. 

"Resolved, That Camp No. 1 of the United 
Confederate Veterans does suggest that the 
convention of the State camps of the United 
Confederate Veterans to be held in Baton 
Rouge take action in regard to the abolishment 
of all these needless titles of rank in the organ- 
ization. 



New Orleans Camii followed above camps 
with like resolutions and demanded that all 
titles among U. C. V. be abolished. 



Owing to confusion caused by unmatched ti- 
tles a veteran who ranks as "Colonel U. C. V." 
protests against the use of titles in the U. C. V. 
organization. He says : "Some time ago I 
called your attention to the great injustice that 
is being done to the general and field officers 
of the Confederate army by the titles now being 
given to all ranks in the U. C. V. I know that 
the general officers feel it deeply, and it is more 
confusing to history and to the younger gene'-a- 
tions as thev hear men called 'General' or 
'Colonel' when they really had no such titles in 
the war. I think we owe it to those gallant of- 
ficers who won their rank in battle to do away 
with the titles and call the officers of the U. C. 
V. Commander. Adjutant, and such titles as 
show their positions. A resolution was in'ro- 
duced at a reunion some years ago by Governor 
Johnston, of Alabama, to change these titles. 
Every livins; General and Colonel feels this in- 
justice to them, and these titles should be abol- 
ished. .\s I am on staff with the rank of 



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Colonel, you can see that I am unselfish as well 
as patriotic in what I have written." 

Whether this writer ever served in the Con- 
federate army as a real soldier or not, I do not 
know. 

To the contrary of above, a man who never 
bore a gun or served in the Confederate army, 
takes umbrage at action of camps to abolish 
titles, because he was a "Colonel" on staffs of 
both General Gordon and General Lee and is 
now a Colonel on staff of General Evans and 
wears a flashy uniform at all U. C. V. reun- 
ions. He writes in regard to action of New 
Orleans Camp, wherein he says: 

'^t takes money to keep up the V. C. Vs., and 
we officers furnish it. A Lieutenant General 
pays $20 per year for the honor of holding the 
position to which he is elected by his comrades. 
There are about five of these. Major Generals 
pay $10 per year. There are about fifteen of 
these. 

"Brigadier Generals pay $8, and there are 
about 150 of these. Colonels and Lieutenant 
Colonels pay $5 each. There are about 600 of 



these. Majors and Captains pay $2.50 each 
and there are about 1,000 of these. Thus we 
see that the income to the organization from the 
Generals and their staff amounts to about 
$5,000, which will discontinue should there be 
no officers, and the action of this cranky New 
Orleans Camp materializes. The idea is im- 
practicable on account of the monetary consid- 
eration. It requires money to run everything, 
for the wind of this camp can not keep anythiu'j 
in good condition. The organization can not 
exist without the income from officers, and the 
moment you eliminate rank good-bye to the 
United Confederate Veterans as an organiza- 
tion." 

Wliat a blush of shame, such a sta'^ement as 
this Colonel on staff of three U. C. V. Lieuten- 
ant Generals makes, ought to cause to mantle 
the cheek of every true Confederate soldier; 
1,776 Generals, Colonels, etc., commissioned 
even- year, and bound to be done else organiza- 
tion would go to pieces. If this be true, better 
let it go at once, rather than keep it up to the 
disgrace of the chivalry of every true Confeder- 
ate soldier. 



GOVERNOR J. W. THROCKMORTON. 



His Talk to the \'eterans of Hood's Old Brigade— A Patriotic Address From a Patriotic Texas 

Statesman— Bright Memories of the Past Eloquently Embalmed for the Southrons 

of the Future— No Grander Speech Was Ever Made by Mortal Man. 



Mr. President^ Soldiers of Hood's Brigade^ 
and Gentlemen: 

It might more nearly meet your expectations, 
and be more in accordance with my own inclina- 
tions, to present you with a eulogy upon the 
brave men in whose honor we meet today, and 
paint a picture of the deeds of chivalry and 
heroism of the dead and living, but it has oc- 
curred to me that a plain recital of the great 
events connected with their history during the 
Civil War would be less subject to criticism and 
misrepresentation and more in harmony with 
the objects and purposes for which the survivors 
associate themselves together. 

In speaking of Hood's Brigade and recount- 
ing the distinguished service it rendered the 
lost cause, it is impossible to do so without re- 
ferring largely to the grand achievements of the 
Army of Northern Virginia imder the match- 
less leader who directed its operations. 

To do this as it should be done requires labor 
that cannot be compassed in an address fit for 
an occasion like the present, and it will not be 
attempted except in the briefest manner possi- 



lile. With propriety, however, allusion may be 
made to the great odds with which that army 
and its great commander liad to contend, and 
to the difficulties they had to encounter. 

On the one hand, General Lee represented a 
newly formed government, strong only in the de- 
votion and enthusiasm of the people who es- 
poused its cause, a government hastily arranged, 
without a treasury, unrecognized by anv foreism 
powers; with a border line of defense several 
thousand miles in extent, adjoining hostile 
States, unprovided with arms and ammunition, 
and no factories in operation to supply them ; 
with an ocean line equally as long, and impor- 
tant commercial cities and ports exposed to at- 
tack without a ship to defend them; with few 
manufactories to supply the wants of the peo- 
ple, or the necessities imposed by war, with the 
elements of a dangerous and servile insurrec- 
tion in the heart of the country to be defended. 

Opposed by a powerful government, long es- 
tablished and recognized by all great powers, 
with a regular army, amply provided with all 
the appliances of war, with factories in abun- 



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dance to supply all its needs, with a great com- 
merce, and a navy to keep open its ports, with a 
fighting- population twice trreater in number 
than that possessed by its opponent, and the 
hireling soldier to recruit from. 

The odds were great, and the task assumed 
by the South an herculean one. Wlien McClel- 
lan advanced upon Eichmond he had an army 
of carefully trained soldiers, abundantly sup- 
plied, of 115,000, an auxiliary army in the 
valley of 30,000 and the Potomac reserve of 
40,000, with gunboats and ships to aid and 
bring supplies. To oppose these forn)i(l;i!)le 
forces and grand preparations General Johnston 
had but 53,000 men under his immediate com- 
mand, 16,000 with Jackson and 18,000 with 
Huger around Yorktown. 

After Fair Oaks and Seven Pines, when Lee 
took command, with Jackson and Huger's 
forces, he had 81,000 men. McClellan was con- 
fronting him with over 100,000, and McDowell 
and Banks and Shields 80,000 to menace Lee's 
flanks and to assist. Yet Lee drove him from 
his entrenchments to the protection of his gun- 
boats on the Jame.^, inflicting upon him great 
loss of men and scpplies. 

Pope was placed in command of the Federal 
army and boasted t. his government that bi' 
could march straight to New Orleans. But 
Lee, with an audacity and skill almost unex- 
ampled in war, and entirely unexpected by his 
opponents, notwithstanding the great amies op- 
posed to him, suddenly assumed the offensive 
and sent that great soldier Jackson to confront 
Pope. Jackson gave the vain boaster a sound 
beating at Cedar Mountain and inflicted on him 
serious loss. Being reinforced by a part of 
McClellan's army, and hourly expecting formid- 
able cupport, he still boasted of his prowess. 
Lee rapidly advanced to Jackson's assistance, 
when Pope was again defeated on the old battle 
ground of Manassas, and had to flee, after great 
loss in men and material, to the works in front 
of Washington. When General Lee fought the 
second battle of Manassas he had but 60,000 
men and was threatened with the armies of 
McClellan, Pope and Burnside, 150,000 strong. 
His conception and execution of this brief cam- 
paign filled the enemy with dismay. It has 
been the wonder and admiration of military 
men and critics, and raised the enthusiasm of 
his own soldiers to the highest pitch. He was 
not deterred by the immense odds. His re- 
liance upon bis own skill and the indomitable 
bravery of his soldiers induced him to believe 
that victory was assured. This second battle 
of Manassas was a sanguinary field. We 
are told that the battle field was one of 
dreadful carnage. Pope left upon the field 



15,000 killed, woimded and prisoners, with 
a loss of 25,000 stands of small arms, twenty- 
three pieces of artillery, besides a large amount 
of valuable stores. Our own loss wa^ severe 
being 7,000 or 8,000. This brief campaign, so 
ably planned and carried out, stamped General 
Lee as one of the great captains of the age. Pope 
and his army were defeated and demoralized, and 
we hear no more of him during the war. Eich- 
mond was relieved and Washington threatened. 
From the 1st of June to the 31st of August 
Lee bad inflicted a loss on McClellan of 10,000, 
and 15,000 on Pope, besides millions of dollars 
in supplies and materials of war. 

With an army of only 45,000 men General 
Lee commenced his advance into Maryland. His 
men were ragged and ill provided, and worn 
from continued fighting and marching, but their 
courage and spirits were never better. Har- 
per's Ferry with 13,.J00 men, sevenitv- three 
pieces of artillery, 13,000 stands of arms, 200 
wagons and large quantities of military stores 
were captured. By an act of carelessness on the 
part of some officer General Lee's orders direct- 
ing the march of his troops fell into the hands 
of McClellan, which completely modified the 
plans of the campaign, and precipitated the 
battles of South Mountain and Sharpsburg. 
McClellan had at Sharprburg 90,000 soldiers, 
Lees army, all told, amounted to only 40,000 
men, and of them A. P. Hill's corps only reached 
the field in time to render important service 
late in the evening of the last day's fighting. 
McClellan, awaiting the arrival of 15,000 fresh 
troops, did not renew the attack and General 
Lee withdrew across the Potomac. General 
James H. Wilson, a Northern authority, says 
BIcClellan's army consisted of 85,000 men, and 
Lee's 65,000— in reality 25,000 more than ho 
had. This writer claims that the advantage 
of the first day's fighting was with the Federals ; 
but he admits that on the 17th Hooker's and 
Mansfield's corps, supported by Sumner's were 
all defeated and driven back by Jackson and 
Lee's left, and that Burnside on the right was 
also driven back and defeated. He says on 
the 18th McClellan stood on the defensive, 
awaiting the arrival of two strong divisions 
under Humphreys and Couch. This author 
places the Federal loss in killed, wounded and 
missing at 13,469 and Lee's loss at 9,000. 

In December following with 60,000 men and 
250 guns Lee defeated Burnside at Fredricks- 
burg with an army of 100,000 men and 300 
guns. Of this battle a Northern writer says 
Burnside had 100,000 men and Lee 80,000— 
in truth he had but 60,000. The same writer 
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missing was 12,250, twice that of tlie Confed- 
erates. 

Next followed Chancellorsville, where 
Hooker had largely over 90,000 men and 400 
guns, and Lee, fighting without Longstreet's 
corps, had less than 50,000. Jackson's great 
flank movement enabled Lee to defeat Hooker 
with a loss of 17,000 lulled, wounded and 
prisoners, with thirteen pieces of artillery. 
19,500 stands of small arms, seventeen colors 
and a large amoimt of ammunition. Our ovm 
loss was 9,000, but the victory was dearly pur- 
chased, Lee's great right arm, General Jackson, 
fell on the field, his skill and valor gone. 

At Gettysburg Meade had 80,000 men and the 
advantage of position, with 10,000 men at Har- 
per's Ferry. Lee liad but 65,000. In this, the 
hardest contested battle of the war, the Federal 
loss by their own showing was 23,190 in killed, 
wounded and missing; our loss was less than 
20,000. Federal writers claim that Lee had 
between 70,000 and 80,000 men and lost 36,000, 
. bat in cither respect this is very far from the 
truth. On this bloody field the Federals lost 
Generals Keynolds killed, and Hancock and Gib- 
bon wounded, and we lost Garnett, Armsted. 
Berksdale and Pender, and Hood, Heath and 
Kempe woiinded. 

Next came the Wildernecs. Grant directed 
140,000 men. On the 5th day of May Grant had 
112,000; Lee, after Longstreet reached him, 
had 64,000. The Wilderness was immediately 
succeeded by Spottsylvania. Northern author- 
ties say Grant's loss from the 5th to the 31st of 
May, was 41,398, and our loss is placed by the 
same wTiter at 20,000. 

At Cold Harber Grant had 100,000 men, and 
Lee but 45,000. Grant's loss was 13,000 dead 
and wounded, and Lee's 1,000. Some Federal 
writers place Grant's forces at Cold Harbor as 
high as 115,000. In this short campaign of a 
month Lee inflicted a loss upon his adversary 
nearly equal in numbers to his entire army. 

The seige of Petersburg continued from June 
until the followng ^laroh. For ten mouths Lee 
resisted Grant with 35,000 soldiers when Grant's 
numbers were four times greater. His lines of 
defense for the i>rotcction of Richmond and 
Petersburg were over thiitv-five miles in length, 
with less than 1,000 men to the mile. But the 
fatal hour had come. Human skill and endur- 
ance could no longer resist the overwhelming 
numbers and appliances brought to l)ear against 
his weakened lines. History records no more 
masterly, skillful and courageous defense than 
that of TjCc and his army around these beleag- 
uered cities. The world has passed judgment 
upon the Army of Northern Virginia and its 
great leader. Their victories and t)nttles. their 



courage and endurance stand foremost in the 
achievements of military annals. 

Among the bravest of the brave in this re- 
nowned army was Hood's Brigade. Early in 
the war its first regiment was organized, drilled 
and disciplined by Hood. The brigade itself 
was thoroughly prepared for its brilliant career 
by this gifted and fearless hero. It began its 
career under Johnston at Eltham's Landing, and 
I believe was with Ijce in every battle he fought 
except that of Chancellorsville. At the very 
beginning the brigade gave high promise of the 
glorious career that marked its behavior on 
every field where it was engaged until the end. 
Major General G. W. Smith, who commanded 
the division of which the brigade was a part, 
says in his report: "The brunt of the contest 
was borne by the Texans, and to them is due the 
largest share of the honors of the day at El- 
tham." This was great praise, where as the 
same officer says, "all the troops engaged show- 
ed the finest spirit, were under perfect control 
and behaved admirably," 

Nor should it be forgotten that on that day 
John Deel, a Texan, by his coolness and pres- 
ence of mind saved the life of General Hood by 
shooting down a Federal soldier that had his 
gun leveled at short range. 

After Seven Pines, where Johnston was 
wounded and Lee took command, came Mechan- 
icsville and Gaines' Mill. On this last field the 
Ijrigade won laurels that never faded. While 
charging the enemy's breastworks with bayo- 
nets, and while the concentrated fire of batteries 
from the front and flank were pouring into the 
Fourth Texas, the lamented Colonel jMarshall 
fell. The breastworks were carried with fixed 
bayonets by the Fourth Texas and the Eigh- 
teenth Georgia and the First and Fifth Texas 
and Hampton's Legion swept forward from 
right to left into the very heart of the enemy. 
The trophies of the brigade were fourteen pieces 
of artillery and the capture of a Federal regi- 
ment. General Jackson in his report of this 
magnificent charge says : "In this charge in 
which upwards of one thousand men fell killed 
and wounded before the fire of the enemy, and 
in which fourteen pieces of artillery and nearly 
a regiment were captured, the Fourth Texas, 
under the lead of General Hood, was the first to 
pierce these strongholds and seize the guns." 
The next day while surveying the field, Jackson 
exclaimed : "The men who carried this posi- 
tion were soldiers indeed." Major Warwick fell 
mortallv wounded while urging his men for- 
ward in the charge. General Hood says: "One 
half of the Fourth Texas lay dead or wounded 
along a distance of one mile." 

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Aialven Hill the brigade acted with its usual 
loolness and gallantry. It may be noticed here 
that had General Whiting allowed the request of 
Hood and Hampton to assail the enemy's flank 
better success would doubtless have been attain- 
ed on that day by our arms. 

At Second Manassas the brigade won new 
laurels, and pushed on in its attacks with such 
ardor that Longstreet had to admonish Hood 
that the other troojDs could not keep up with it. 

Hood was in command of a division and Col- 
onel Kobertson commanded the brigade. Rob- 
ertson was wounded, and Adjutant General Sel- 
lers led it afterwards. The gallant Lieutenant 
Colonel Upton, of the Fifth Texas, after ren- 
dering the most conspicuous service, was killed 
in this battle. It was during this hotly con- 
tested field, after Robertson was wounded and 
Upton killed, that the Fifth Texas "slipped the 
liridle and broke loose from the brigade," and 
Hood says "when night approached and the bat- 
tle was over I found it far to the front in the 
vicinity of Sudley's Ford." The trophies of 
Hood's two brigades were five guns and fourteen 
stands of colors, and a large amoimt of material 
of war. It was during these operations when 
the Texans were encamped and asleep that a 
rolling barrel, and "the old gray mare came 
tearing out of the wilderness," caused momen- 
tarily quite a laughable panic. 

On the march to Antietam, Hood says : "My 
troops were sorely in need of shoes, clothing and 
food. We had no meat issued to us for several 
days, and little or no bread; the men were 
forced to subsist jirincipally on green com and 
green apples, nevertheless they were in high 
spirits and defiant." 

Under such circumstances of fatigue, hunger 
and toil on September 14 the bayonet was again 
used and the Federals driven from a strong 
])Osition. After extreme suffering for the want 
of food, after the engagement of the 14th, at 
night. Hood asked that his troops be relieved 
until they could procure food, but whilst they 
were preparing it, and before it was eaten, an 
urgent call required their presence at the front. 
At this time. Hood says, "Notwithstanding the 
overwhelming odds of over ten to one against 
us, with Colonel Wofford in command of the 
Texas Brigade we drove the enemy from the 
wood and cornfielcl back upon his reserves and 
forced him to abandon his guns on our left 
The most deadly combat raged till our last, 
round of ammunition was exhausted. The 
First Texas regiment had lost in the cornfield 
fully two-thirds of its number, and whole ranks 
of brave iiien, whose deeds were imreeorded save 
in the hearts of loved ones at home, were mowed 
down in heaps on the right and left." He says 



again, "Here I witnessed the most terrible clash 
of arms by far that had occurred during the 
war. The two little giant brigades of my com- 
mand wrestled with the mighty force, and al- 
though they lost hundreds of their officers and 
men, they drove them from their position and 
forced them to abandon their guns on our left." 
The brilliant achievements of Hood and his two 
shattered brigades during these encounters at 
South Mountain and Antietam made him a 
Jlajor General and added new laurels to the 
heroes who secured him his promotion. Fred- 
ericksburg, so far as Hood's Brigade was con- 
cerned, was simply a repetition of the past ex- 
cept that it was not called upon to perform the 
same prodigies of valor as at Cold Harbor, the 
Second Manassas or Antietam. On this bloody 
field fell that grand soldier. General Gregg, 
commander of the brigade. In connection wTfh 
this great battle it is worthy of mention that in 
a conversation with Hood, Stonewall Jackson 
told him he did not expect to live through the 
war and did not care to survive it. 

After Fredericksburg, in the spring, the bri- 
gade went with Longstreet to Petersburg and 
toward Suffolk. It was during this time that 
Captain Turner of the Fifth Texas, was killed 
in an engagements with gunboats. Before Long- 
street could reach Lee from this expedition 
Chancellorsville had been fought and won. 

Next was the campaign into Marvland and 
Pennsylvania, and the hard fought field of Get- 
tysburg. Hood was wounded and borne from the 
field. He says "Xever did a grander, more he- 
roic division enter into battle; nor did ever 
troops fight more desperately to overcome the 
unsurmountable difficulties against which they 
had to contend, as Law, Benning, Anderson and 
Robertson nobly led their brave men to this un- 
successful assault." He says the loss was very 
heavy. The brigade was next sent with Long- 
street to Georgia, and when General Hood 
found his division there, on the eve of 
Chicamauga, he says they were destitute of al- 
most everything — not a wagon, or even an am- 
bulance, with scarcely anything except their 
spirit, pride and forty rounds of ammunition 
to the man. 

As usual the brigade at Chicamauga with 
other troops, drove the enemy from their breast- 
works, and acquired additional glory, while its 
old leader was again severely wounded. 

Hood's distinguished service at Chicamauga 
made him a lieutenant general. It returned 
with Longstreet to the Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia and participated in the battles of the Wil- 
derness and Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor 
and the seige of Petersburg. At the Wilderness 
in one of the most critical moments of the bat- 



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tie. General Lee placed himself at the head of 
the Texans and was going to lead them into 
the very jaws of death, when a sergeant seized 
his horse and forced him to go back, saying, 
"Go back. General Lee, we won't go imless you 
go back." General Long saj's: "The Texans 
went forward and did well their duty. They 
were eight hundred strong and lost half their 
number in killed and wounded on that bloodv 
day." 

Then followed the fighting at Spottsylvania, 
where the brigade contributed its share to the 
victories won there. It has been said, "Of all 
the struggles of the war this was, perhaps, the 
fiercest and most deadly. Frequently through- 
out the conflict so close was the fight that rival 
standards were planted on opposite sides of the 
breastworks." One Xorthern writer says: 
"The ground was literally covered with piles of 
dead, and the woods in front of the salient were 
one hideous Golgotha." 

At the second battle of Cold Harbor the same 
bloody scenes were enacted, in which the bri- 
gade performed its full duty. General Long 
says : "Attack after attack was made and men 
fell in myriads before the murderous fire of the 
Confederate lines. In the brief space of one 
hour the bloody battle of June 3 was over and 
13,000 dead and wounded Federals lay in front 
of the lines, behind which little more than 
1,000 of the Confederate force had fallen. After 
Cold Harbor came the ten month's seige and 
almost daily fighting in the entrenchments and 
in the open fields around Richmond and Peters- 
burg, and then the end at Appomattox. 

It would be but a sad privilege to rehearse the 
bravery exhibited, the toils endured and losses 
sustained by the brigade during this eventful 
period. There, as everjTvhere, these heroes of 
Texas performed the full measure of their duty. 
The words of no living tongue can add to the 
deathless fame already accorded to them by 
their countrymen. When impartial history 
presents the achievements of the armies of the 
lost cause they will stand out among the grand- 
est and foremost of human actions, and among 
the lists of soldiers of these great armies Hood's 
Texas brigade will occupy a page that will be 
the' glory and admiration of all coming ages. 

Although the present occasion is in honor of 
Hood's Brigade, and to commemorate the 
achievements of its heroes and to bring together 
the veteran survivors of that famous legion, yet 
there are other veterans here who are welcome 
guests, those who wore the blue as well as the 
gray, and we rejoice to know that there are 
present veterans of tlie war of Independence of 
the Republic of Texas, and also of the Mexican 
war. 



It is fit and proper that the soldiers of all our 
wars should meet, and mingling together com- 
memorate the deeds of their comrades in 
arms. 

We are American citizens ; we are descendants 
of the heroes and statesmen who won our in- 
dependence and established a government dedi- 
cated to human libert}'. We all share alike in 
the fame won at Bunker Hill and Yorktown, at 
Lundj-'s Lane and Xew Orleans, at the Alamo 
and San Jacinto, at Beuna Vista and Chapulta- 
pec; and we are as justly proud of the reno\vn 
won by the heroes who fought at Shiloh, Man- 
asses, at the Wilderness and Gettysburg, regard- 
less of the banner under which they fought. 

The soldiers of the Civil War who wore the 
blue fought for the supremacy of the Union. 
Those who wore the gray fought for their fire- 
sides and for the principles dear to the Ameri- 
can heart — implanted there by the father of the 
republic. 

Lee and Grant, their generals and soldiers, 
will occupy as brilliant a page in the military 
annals of the world as any whose deeds are re- 
corded there. Their splendid achievements be- 
long to the history of our common country, and 
are not surpassed, if equaled, by those of any 
people, ancient or modern, and are the heritage 
of a common people whether won under the 
stars and stripes or the stars and bars. As has 
been said upon another occasion, the memories 
that cluster around the deeds of the soldiers of 
tlie civil war, the living as weU as the dead, 
should teach us that we are one people — that we 
cannot and should not be divided. 

When Mirabeau was dying he asked to be 
garlanded with flowers and cheered with the 
strains of sweet music. He expressed no 
thought for his unhappy country then verging 
on the shores of revolution. 

When Warren and Montgomery fell it was 
for the liberty of their country the sacrifice was 
made. When Sydney Johnston, Stonewall 
Jackson and Gregg and Sedgewick, McPherson 
and Eeraolds died it was for their country and 
for what they thought was the right. When the 
sun went down on Thermopylae and the Alamo 
the sublimest devotion to country had been en- 
acted that earth has ever witnessed. Pickett's 
charge and Hood's attack at Gettysburg stand 
out among the very foremost of the daring 
achievements of any age or countrj' — and grand 
indeed was the valor of the stem warriors who 
saved the Federal army from defeat on that 
field of death and glorj-. When the impartial 
historian shall write the achievements of Lee's 
army, chronicle the victories won and battles 
fought, the privations and hardships endured 
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209 



numbers to the numerous and well appointed 
armies opposed to him, when these cleeds, the 
exalted courage, the constancy and devotion of 
his ragged soldiers, his own sublime bearing in 
defeat or victory, his unequaled fortitude and 
skill — are truthfully portrayed, they will be the 
wonder and admiration of mankind. Espe- 
cially will his last year's defense of Richmond, 
with constantly diminishing ranks, with no 
sources of new supplies of men, with extended 
lines of defence, and constantly augmented 
armies to contend with, stand out as a marvel 
unequaled in military history. Among the 
brightest pages of that histoiy will be recorded 
deeds of valor performed by the soldiers of 
Hood's brigade. 

Twenty-four years have past since the event- 
ful day of Appomattox when the sun went down 
in defeat upon the crushed and buried hopes of 
the Confederacy. A long list of the dead sol- 
diers of the South were numbered among the 
muster rolls of fame. The survivors, scarred, 
worn and weary, returned through burning 
cities and towns and blackened ruins to their 
desolated homes — mourning filled everj' house- 
hold — and bitter years of reconstruction were 
endured when we were denied the blessed privi- 
lege of reinterring our heroic dead with the 
honors and solemnities due to their memories 
and befitting the civilization of the age in which 
we live. The dark clouds of war have rolled 
away; the bitterness of the strife engendered by 
the war, and the wounds inflicted by it have 
been assuaged ; the gallant soldiers who faced 
each other in the hour of battle, as a rule, vie in 
the kindly offices which will efface forever the 
passions of that unhappy period, only remem- 
bering and honoring the gallantry of their op- 
ponents. The graves of Southern soldiers that 
died from wounds and disease in Northern pris- 
ons and hospitals are strewn with flowers by 
the wives and daughters of brave men who fell 
upon the battlefields of the South, and the 
graves of Northern soldiers who lie buried in 
the South are tenderly eared for by the fair wo- 
men whose homes they invaded. God grant that 
these heaven born virtues of charitj' and for- 
giveness may extend until it pervade* the hearts 
of every fair woman and manly breast through- 
out the length and breadtli of our glorious coun- 
try, even until there shall not he a sorehead in 
the South, or a scurvy partisan in the North, to 
mar the harmony and beauty of a united and 
prosperous country. 

The blackened ruins and desolated places of 
the past have given way to rebuilded cities and 
towns and prosperous homes, where peace and 
prosperity reign. If there are "till mourning 
hearts who cannot forget the lost ones, time has 



lessened the anguish, and white winged peace, 
and the sweet charity that can grant as well as 
ask forgiveness enables the burdened heart to 
bear its sorrows with patient resignation. 

At this time of renewed prosperity, and when 
our motives cannot possibly be misconstrued, 
may not a proud and gallant people set the ball 
in motion and prepare the way by which pro- 
vision shall be made for the reception of the vet- 
erans of the civil war? Those of them who 
have been fortunate do not ask for it, but 
there are comrades who from wounds, disease, 
and misfortune, need assistance. No soldier of 
the war of Independence or of the civil war 
should be allowed to drag out the remainder of 
his daj's in penury and want. They offered 
their lives and gave their blood for our glory, 
and that we might be a free people. This, how- 
ever, has won for Texans a fame as deathless 
as time itself, and enables us to control the des- 
tinies of the grandest of American States. If we 
permit the soldiers of Texas to linger in want 
and die uncared for we are unworthy of that 
liberty for which Travis, and Bowie, and 
Crockett and Fannin, and their comrades gave 
up life, that which San Jacinto secured to us. 
If there are constitutional inhibitions which 
prevent the state from performing its duty in 
this respect, a grateful and generous people will 
sweep them out of the way. 

May we not invoke the veterans of our entire 
country, the survivors of all our wars, and our 
people everywhere, in the name of the living as 
well as the dead — in this our day of peace and 
prosperity — to renew upon the altars of our 
country eternal devotion and loyalty to its in- 
stitutions, and supplicate the aid and blessings 
of heaven that we, and those to come after us, 
shall preserve our liberty, "the Union of the 
States, now and forever one and inseparable." 

Governor J. W. Throckmorton was one of the 
grandest statesmen and purest men this or any 
other country ever produced. He was the first 
Governor elected by the people of Texas after 
the war. Reconstruction in most fiendish shape 
was being visited upon the South. Governor 
Throckmorton was too pure, high and lofty in 
all that made a true man to suit the miserable 
wretches who controlled, and he was removed 
by military order and, with martial law and 
Davis police everywhere, a military governor 
was appointed to carry out the behests of the 
most damnable and corrupt regime that ever 
oppressed an unfortunate people. The very 
name of E, J. Davis should be consigned to 
eternal infamy, reeking with all that is repug- 
nant and detestable to every white man on 
earth. 



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FRANK. B. CHILTON. 



Extracts from the Record at Washington and that on File at Austin as to a Young Soldier. 



Taken from "Personnel of Texas State Gov- 
ernment" and "Types of Successful Jlen of 
Texas." 

At the age of fifteen young Chilton was read- 
ing law at Montgomery, Texas, under the able 
instruction of Charles Jones, Esq., a distin- 
guished attorney of that place ; that is, he clerk- 
ed in the store of V. J. Willis & Bro., at Mont- 
gomery, and at night and odd times read law. 
But it seems that fate had not destined him for 
the Bar, at least not Just yet. 

The dark clouds that had so long presaged 
a war bet;\veen the States, finally burst in all 
its fury, and the country was plunged in strife. 
As young as he was, one of his impulsive, ar- 
dent nature, and in whose veins the ])atriot"s 
blood was flowing — handed down through sev- 
eral generations of brave ancestors, could not 
be content to be an idle spectator; at the first 
bugle call to arms he responded with alacrity. 

A company was soon formed, and he enlisted 
in it under the command of Proctor P. Por- 
ter — an attorney-at-law — who was elected Cap- 
tain. The company marched to Eed Top, in 
Grimes county, Texas, and the men were for- 
mally "mustered in" to the Confederate serv- 
ice. May 7, 1861. Thence they went to Harris- 
burg and went into camp preparatory to the 
long march to the seat of war in Virginia. The 
march was full of interesting events, and scenes, 
and made a strong and lasting impression on 
the mind of this young soldier; it was a frolic 
to him, but many of the old soldiers recall it 
with a sigh ; especially that part of it which led 
across the "Grand Marie" of Louisiana. His 
company was christened "Company H," and 
was in the Fourth regiment of that brigade 
made famous by the immortal Hood, and 
knoflm ever after by his name. He served witii 
that command throughout the "Peninsula cam- 
paign," and to close of ^IcClellan's "On to 
Richmond" campaign. After General McClel- 
lan was driven from his stronghold there and 
forced by Lee's army to seek the sheltering 
protection of his gunboats, which lay off York- 
town, where he recruited his shattered and dis- 
heartened army, and General Lee returned to 
the neighborhood of Richmond, young Chilton 
was prostrated with a severe attack of malarial 
fever; his relatives, Hon. W. P. Chilton, an 
uncle who was at that time in Richmond a 
member of the Confederate Congress — and 



General R. H. Chilton, a kinsman, then in the 
War Department, and afterwards Chief of 
General Lee's staff, made every effort to 
induce him to quit the ranks and take 
a position in the War Department, or prefera- 
bly to them, to return to his home in Texas 
and stay with his mother; but — as we have 
said — the patriot's blood flowed in his veins; 
and as feeble and reduced as he was — nearly 
exhausted, in fact, from sickness — the long 
and weary marches through the dense and 
poisonotis swamps of those low lands, and the 
fatigues of drill and camp duty, for he was 
not one to shirk a single responsibility, he 
would not consent to leave his command. His 
zeal in his country's cause was unabated, not- 
withstanding his prostration, his attachment to 
liis comrades was strong; and it was only when, 
in consequence of repeated spells of fever that 
he became totally unfit for duty, that he lis- 
tened to the advice of his relatives. McClellan 
reorganized his shattered forces, and as Lee fell 
back to Richmond pursued him. The battle of 
West Point, or Eltham's Landing, was fought 
entirely by Hood's Texas Brigade. 

The battle of Seven Pines was fought in the 
water and the seven days battles around Rich- 
mond — beginning with Gaines' Mill — have no 
parallel in history. About this time he received 
news that his brother, Major Geo. W. Chilton, in 
the Missouri army, had been severely wounded 
by a shot in the head ; another brother, Horace 
B. Chilton, was shot through the heart at 
Gaines' Mill, and nearly all his regimental and 
company officers were killed or wounded in 
the same battle, including Marshall, Carter, 
Warwick, Key, Porter, Ryan, Lambert, Walsh 
and many others, the purest and truest of young 
Southern chivalry. Their blood was poured 
out as freely as water, as a libation on their 
country's altar. It was indeed a time of mourn- 
ing in Hood's Brigade ; and then it was, and 
only then, that this youthful soldier consented 
to accept a discharge from the ranks and re- 
turn home. The battles of Second Manassas and 
Sliarpsburg were both bloody battles that for- 
ever wrote the gallantry and bravery of the 
Brigade imperishably. 

Following discharge by Secretary of War was 
brought to him, September 20, 1862, by his 
uncle, Hon. Wm. P. Chilton, member of Con- 
federate Congress from Alabama, former Su- 
preme Judge of the state: — 




F. B CHILTOX. 

At Beginning of War. Fifteen Years Old. Taken February Second, Eighteen 
Hundred and Sixtj--one, the day Texas Seceeded from the Union. 



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Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, 
Richmond, Va., Sept. 15, 18G2. 

Special Order No. 216. 

(Extract.) 
VII. Private Frank B. Chilton, Co. H, 
Fourth Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, is 
hereby honorably discharged from the service 
of the Confederate States. 

By command of the Secretary of War. 
John Withers, 
Asst. Adjt. General. 
To Private F. B. Chilton, 

Through Hon. Wm. P. Chilton. 

This boy left Richmond, Va., on October 25, 
1862, with a sorrowful heart. Once more in sun- 
ny Texas, surrounded by friends and kindred — 
amid scenes of his childhood, rested from the 
fatigues he had so bravely borne — he soon re- 
cuperated his strength and health. With their 
return came again the yearning desire to be up 
and doing; his gallant young heart could not 
long brook the restraint put upon him; he 
tired of inactivity and sighed for the scenes of 
camp life. 

It is a strange phase in human nature, that 
in looking back upon what were in reality 
scenes of privation and hardship, especially in 
military life, one forgets in a great measure 
all that is disagreeable, while the pleasurable 
memoirs, even be they few, come out in bold 
relief, and the mind loves to dwell upon them. 
An old soldier of thirteen campaigns and of 
two-score battles, told us that he loves now to 
recall the recurrence of blackberry time while 
in the army, and to remember how, while 
charging across a hard-fought field, he came 
upon a big patch of dew-berries, and although 
the minie balls, and shot and shell, were mak- 
ing unpleasant music around his ears, and com- 
rades were falling about him, he jumped down 
in a gully and "got the best bait of blackberries 
he ever had in his life!" Young Chilton for- 
got the sufferings he had endured, but remem- 
bered the camp fires and the merry songs and 
anecdotes of camp life; he sighed to be once 
more amongst "the boys." He immediately re- 
enlisted in the army, but did not rejoin his 
command. He remained in what was called the 
Trans-Mississippi Department, and served In 
many official capacities. While a Sergeant of 
Company B, Baylor's Regiment, Major's Bri- 
gade, Green's Division of Cavalry, he was pro- 
moted to a Second Lieutenancy for gallant and 
meritorious conduct, and the following "Spe- 
cial Order" was promulgated and read on dress 
parade — to all the troops in the aepartment: — 



Headquarters Green's Div. of Cavalry, 
Virginia Point, Tex., Feb. 20, 1864. 

Special Order No. 2. 

1. Sergeant Frank B. Chilton, Co. B, Bay- 
lor's Regiment, Major's Brigade, Green's Di- 
vision of Cavalry, having been highly recom- 
mended by his company and regimental offi- 
cers for promotion, and having proved himself 
a gallant and meritorious soldier, he is hereby 
appointed Senior Second Lieutenant of Com- 
pany B, Baylor's Regiment, in accordance with 
General Orders No. 48, District Headquarters 
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and will be 
obeyed and respected as such. 

By order, W. P. Lane, Colonel. 

Commander Division Cavalry. 
(A true copy.) 

A. C. Powell, Act. Asst. Adjt. General. 

See : War of the Rebellion official records 
of the Union and Confederate Armies, series 
I, Vol. XXXIV, Part I, Reports, Page 616; 
and Gen. Clement A. Evan's "Historv of the 
War," Record of Te.xas Troops, Vol. XI, Page 
207. 

At that time he was disabled by wounds, and 
was absent from his command on furlough, and 
being unfit for service in the field, was made 
Post Commander and Provost Marshal at Nav- 
asota, in accordance with the following order 
from District Headquarters : — 

Headquarters District Texas, New Mexico 
and Arizona, 

Houston, May 9, 1864. 
Special Order No. 130. 

VIII. Lieutenant F. B. Chilton, of Bay- 
lor's Regiment, being disabled by wounds, is 
assigned to duty as Commander of Post and 
Provost Marshal at Navasota, Texas. He will 
at once enter upon the duties of his office. 

By command of Major General J. Bankhead 
Magruder. (Signed) 

S. G. Aldrich, 
Official : — Acting Adjt. General. 

W. A. Smith, Act. Asst. General. 

The following order was soon afterwards pro- 
mulgated, which, as will be seen, added to his 
duties as Post Commandant and Provost Mar- 
shal those of Enrolling Officer oi the District : 

Headquarters District of Texas, New Mexico 
and Arizona, 

Houston, July 20, 1864. 
Special Order No. 202. 

Lieutenant F. B. Chilton, Company B, Bay- 
lor's Regiment Texas Cavalry, disabled officer, 
will report for duty to Major J. E. Kirby, Gen- 



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eral Enrolling Officer Third Congressional Dis- 
trict. 

By command of Major General Magruder. 
(Signed) Eobt. J. Samuel, 

Lieut, and Act. Asst. Adjt. General. 
Official : W. A. Smith, Act. Adjt. General. 

Lieutenant Chilton was promoted to Captain. 
On January 27, ISGo, by request of General J. 
B. Robertson, he was transferred to Keserve 
Corps under the following order: — 

Headquarters District of Texas, New Mexico 
and Arizona, 

Houston, Jan. 27, 1865. 
Special Order No. 27. 

IV. Captain F. B. Chilton, Baylor's Regi- 
ment, being unfit for field service by reason of 
wounds, is, at the request of Brig. General J. 
B. Robertson, commanding, assigned to the Re- 
serve Corns, and will report to General Rob- 
ertson for orders. 

By command of Major General J. G. Wal- 
ker. Thomas M. Jack, 

Capt. and Act. Adjt. General. 
To Captain F. B. Chilton. 

From the following order issued soon after 
that Capt. Chilton was assigned to duty in the 
Ordnance Department of the Reserve Corps: — 
Headquarters Reserve Corps, Texas, 
Brenham, Jan. 30,^1865. 
Special Order No. 23. 

XL Capt. F. B. Chilton will act as Ord- 
nance Officer of the Reserve Corps during the 
inability of Capt. Stephen F. Austin Bryan, 
Chief State Ordnance Officer, who is sick, and 
procure such supplies from the department as 
may be required. * * * * 

By command of Brigadier General Robert- 
son. 

Willis Steadman, 
Act. Asst. Adjt. General. 
To Capt. F. B. Chilton. 



Although unfit for service in the field, as 
we have said, by reason of wounds and impaired 
healtli, Capt. Chilton was nevertheless enabled 
to serve the Confederate government efficient- • 
ly, and at the same time his surroundings were 
congenial and pleasant. Here he remained till 
the close of the war — not many months later. 
Witli him were a number of old friends — 
friends whom the mutual hardships of actual 
service, the dangers and sacrifices had cement- 
ed in bonds of fraternal love. He and Captains 
D. U. Barziza and P. L Barziza were on duty 
at Houston, the Headquarters of the Trans- 
Mississippi Department, the former as Chief 
State Ordnance Officer, D. U. Barziza as Com- 
mandant of Camp Greer, and P. L Barziza as 
Enrolling Officer of Harris county. They were 
all old comrades from the Army of Northern 
Virginia, and members of the old Fourth Texas 
Regiment, Hood's Brigade, and it may be imag- 
ined, many reminiscenses were recalled of their 
campaigns in Virginia; "they shouldered their 
crutch and showed how fields were lost and 
won." Willard Richardson, the venerable edi- 
tor, and proprietor as well, of the Galveston 
News, then published at Houston, said, editor- 
ially, of the above trio of officers, in his paper 
of March 24, 1865:— 

"Captains F. B. Chilton, P. I. Barziza and 
D. U. Barziza have been placed on the retired 
list, and are at present on post duty at this 
place. They have been disabled, and retired on 
account of wounds. Such men deserve soft 
places." 

His gallant old Virginia commander, the 
venerable Gen. J. B. Robertson, of Goliad, re- 
cently deceased, was then in command, having 
been transferred from the command of the fa- 
mous Hood's Texas Brigade, in the field in 
Virginia, to which he had succeeded; and this 
was another link connecting Mm to the past, 
and reminding him of his Virginia campaigns. 



THE CHARGE OF HOOD'S BRIGADE. 



Of gallant, cool and fearless men. 
Midst scenes whicli history's made. 

There's ever one ascendant star. 

Like the "Charge of the Liglit Brigade." 

In every land, in every clime, 

Sometime where battles fierce were fought, 
Tlirough Artist's brush or Poet's pen. 

Someone stands out, more finely wrought. 



So tho' we love and honor all. 

Glory in each charge that was made, 

Tho ones that some way brightest shine — 
Ave those of Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Tiiey marched so far o'er Prairie broad ; 

Thro' river, swamp, o'er rugged hill ; 
But Just in time to save the day. 

See how they charged at Gaines' Mill. 



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Fought at "Elthams' Landing" — Seven Pines; 

At "Freeman's Ford" they were fighting still ; 
And the boys in bine, as well as gray, 

Remember the charge of "Malvern Hill." 

"Second Manassas" they fought well, 
Nor for sharpshooters cared a snap ; — 

Were up and away to join the fray, 
And skirmish at "Boonsboro Gap." 

"Sharpsburg," where bullets fell like rain; 

To "Fredericksburg" they had to go ; — 
And I have heard my father tell 

Of blood-stained tracks upon the snow. 

Wounded? aye, — cruel, deadly wounds. 
Yet on with the tide did they surge ; 

Of all the gallant fights they made 
None was grander than "Gettsyburg." 

The enemy perched on rocky craigs; 

Poured down their shot and shell, 
And yet our friends, the boys in blue. 

Said that the Texans gave them hell. 

Bullets whistled and cannons roared, 

And the shells kept \\\> their wild screech, 

But never man alive drew back 
'Till the enemy were in reach. 

The chasm was bloody and wide ; 

The Blue and the Gray fell side by side ; — 
Brave Infantry and Cavalcade; — 

None braver there than "Hood's Brigade." 

Wlio was the spirit that inspired 

To deeds that were gallant and good? 

('Twas a righteous, tho' bloody cause) 
Who, but our noble General Hood? 

Mounted on his charger brave, down 
The line he rode with sword on high. 

Crying "Forward ! Forward ! Forward !" 
They followed him to fight, to die. 

Ah ! had the thinned and starving hosts 
Only laid down their arms that day, 

We could not sing of another 
Charge — Deadliest of all the fray. 

Thro' Virginia's ravished lands, 

(Determined that tliey ne'er would yield) 
Acros the Tennessee's fair hills 

To Chicamauga's bloody field. 

They came ; and in the golden noon 

They charged, and fell, and charged again — 

And stained the very water red ; — 

Tell me, where shall we find such men? 



Go — look up the battle records. 

Call the roll— the roll of "Company A"— 
(Angels of Mercy, where were you 

On that awful pitiless day?) 

Yes, call the roll from end to end — 

Ah ! God, the women bereft — this 
Was the answer at bugle call — 

"There is only one man left !" 

One man left where one hundred 
Fared forth in the sunlight bright. 

Trampled, bleeding, crushed, they lay, 
In the sunset's glowing light. 

Where was such scene , or story heard 

On sea or on mountain, or glade 
As this splendid, terrible tale, 

"The charge of Hood's Texas Brigade?" 

And the moon looked down in pity. 

While the south winds' perfumed breath 

Kissed the cold lips of our dear ones, 
On Chicamauga's field of Death. 

Yet again the remnant gathered, 
(Tho' their General was laid low) 

At his command "Your duty boys. 
Wheresoever you may go." 

'Till Appomattox's fateful day. 
Their arms aside were never laid ; 

From si.xty-one to sixty-five. 

Full many a time fought Hood's Brigade. 

Think of the charges they had made 
In sixty-one, and two and three; 

Nor sheathed a sword 'till captured or killed. 
Our Hood's Brigade that followed Lee. 

"Cold Harbor" was not very cold, — 
And "Spottsylvania" Court house old 

Saw a gaunt, hungry, ragged lot — 

But their brave deeds, ne'er'll be forgot. 

"Petersburg." around the "Trenches," 
"Eichmond" fair, and her defenses — 

All were great scenes of storm and stress. 
But, Oh ! the day of the "Wilderness !" 

Write it, sing it, let it live — 

Eepeat it often as you may, 
Never yet was scene enacted. 

As that upon this wonderous day. 

Poets' lay has fitly told how 

The Texan seized the rein ; 
Never pen nor brush can picture 

Such a thrilling scene again. 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



How the greatest of all Generals 

In liis own tender gallant way, 
Eaised his hat without lehukiiig, — 

Again "Hood's Texans" saved the day. 

Saved the day ? Yes, more than that; — 

Aye, more — do you not see 
A star-gemmed crown Eternal , 

For him who saved our peerless Lee? 

From Texas' sun-kissed prairies, 

To Shenandoah's Valley shade, 
Men stop to listen and to learn 

Of famous "Hood's Texas Brigade!" 

— Decca Lamar West, 
Poet-Laureate Tex. Div. U. D. C. 



WHAT THE RECORDS SHOW. 

General Nelson Miles Cannot Excuse Himself. 

Recurring to the shackling of President Jef- 
ferson Davis by General Miles, it is well enough 
to say that the official records abundantly settle 
the dispute as to who was responsible for the 
outrage. The order of Assistant Secretary of 
War Charles A. Dana to Gencal Miles, as shown 
by ofiicial documents, was as follows : 

Fort Monroe, May 22, 18fi.5.— Brevet Major 
General Miles is hereby authorized and directed 
to place manacles and fetters uiion the hands 
and feet of Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay 
whenever he may think it advisable in order to 
render their imprisonment more secure. 
By order of secretary of war. 

C. A. Dana, 
Assistant Secretary of War. 

This order left manacles and fetters clearly to 
the discretion of General Miles, for on the same 
date Mr. Dana addressed the following commu- 
nication to Secretary Stanton : 

Hon. E. j\L Stanton, Washington. 

Fort Monroe, May 22, 18G5, 2 p. m.— The two 
prisoners (Jefferson Davis and Clement C. 
Clay) have just been placed in their respective 
casements. The sentries are stationed l)oth with- 
in and without their doors. The bars and locks 
are fastened, and the regular routine of their 
imprisonment has begun. 

The arrangement for the security of the pris- 
oners seem to me as complete as could be de- 
sired. Eacli one occu]n'es the inner room of a 
casement. The windows are heavily barred. A 
sentry stands within before each of the doors 
leading into the outer room. These doors are to 
be grated, but are now secured by bars fastened 
on the outside. Two other sentries stand on 
outside of these doors. An officer is also 



constantly on duty in the outer room, whose 
duty is to see the prisoners every fifteen min- 
utes. The outer door of all is locked on the out- 
side, and the key is kept exclusively by the gen- 
eral officer of the guard. Two sentries are also 
stationed without that door. A strong line of 
sentries cuts off all access to the vicinity of the 
casement. Another line is stationed on the top 
of the parapet overhead, and a third line is 
posted across the moats on the counterscarp op- 
posite the place of confinement. 

The casement on each side and between those 
occupied by prisoners are used as guard rooms, 
and soldiers are always there. A lamp is con- 
stantly kept burning 'in each of the rooms. 

I have not given orders to have them placed 
in irons, as General Halleck seemed to be op- 
posed to it, but General Miles is instructed to 
have fetters ready if he thinks them necessary. 

C. A. Dana, 
Assistant Secretary of War. 

Note the last paragraph of the letter wherein 
Mr. Dana distinctly says, "I have not given 
orders to have them placed in irons," etc. Now, 
as a final disposition of the matter, note Secre- 
tary Stanton's order to Miles six days later : 

Major General Miles, Commander, etc., Fort 
Monroe. 

War Department, Washington, May 28 18G5. 
— Please report whether irons have or have not 
been placed on Jefferson Davis. K they have 
been, when was it done, and for what reason, 
and remove them. 

Edwin M. Stanton, 
Secretary of War. 

Everv essential element of controversy is re- 
moved by these records. General Miles, in his 
exuberance and eagerness to do something 
heroic, made a great blunder for which there 
•'•as not the slightest excuse ^ave his ignorance 
of the proprieties of the situation. He has 
never outlived the outrage, although he lived to 
become the ranking officer of the army, and he 
never will. 

It can never be claimed that either Dana or 
Stanton was responsible for the brutal treat- 
ment of President Davis in view of the official 
records which are here presented. 



After All, the Air's the Thing. 
"DIXIE." 

The reformer is abroad in the land. He looks 
upon everything that exists and finds it want- 
ing and capable of improvement, and he pro- 
ceeds to reform. Among many other things he 
has turned his attention to "Dixie" and he 



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wants to reform the "Marseillaise" of the South. 
Whereupon loud and practically unanimous 
protests have been voiced alike in the South- 
'and and in the North. For "Dixie" has long 
since crossed the line and has become the com- 
mon property of the nation. 

"dixie." 

To millions the stirring air brings pictures 
of bitterly contested fields; of battle that will 
live in history until the last of the race wraps 
the drapery of his couch about him and lies 
down to pleasant dreams; of defeats that were 
as glorious as any victory; of a cause that was 
defended by men as intrepid as any that ever 
trod the earth. It carries the memory of the 
hearer back to the long thin line that swept up 
the hill at Gettysburg as if on parade, and to 
the gallant thousands who had lived for Dixie 
and who died for Dixie on that fateful day when 
the flower of the army of Virginia was swept 
down and the last hope of the South was wreck- 
ed in the charge at the sleepy Pennsylvania 
town, which that battle has made famous. It 
carries the memory of the hearer back to the 
first memorial day when the noble women of 
the South decked the resting places of friend 
and foe with the flowers of spring and watered 
them with their tears. And it conjures up be- 
fore the inner eye the glorious picture of the 
reunited country, of peace and happiness and 
prosperity, of progress undreamt of in the 
olden times, when "Dixie" entered the South- 
land. 

It has not been proposed to change the air, 
but simply the text. But even that must not be 
touched. From the graves of hundreds of thou- 
sands of our brothers who died for "Dixie" 
there comes a protest against the change of a 
single syllable. That text, puerile and ridicu- 
lous as it may appear, has been hallowed by the 
blood of a whole generation of fighting men, 
and it should remain as they knew it, and as 
they sang it around their camp fires and as 
they chanted it as they marched into conflict. 
And yet the words are of minor Importance. 
After all, the air's the thing. 



GLORIOUS SENTIMENT. 



THE NASHVILLE REUNION. 

(By Judd Mortimer Lewis.) 

I would like to be in Nashville fer to hear th' 
band a-playin', 

Just the oompah, oompah, oompah, of th' pre- 
lude, then th' blare 

Of th' instruments together, an' to see the lines 
a-swayin'. 



And to hear the crowds a-cheerin' ! Oh, I'm 

longin' to be there 
When th' band's a-playin' "Dixie"! an' to see 

bright eyes a-sliinin', 
An' to see lace-bordered handkerchiefs a-wavin' 

in th' breeze, 
An' ter talk of them ol' comrades sleepin' where 

the vines are twinin'. 
An' th' honeysuckle blossoms are a-noddin' in 

th' breeze. 

Oh, I'd like ter see th' collums all in gray step 

off together 
In a little slower measure than we used to 

know of yore, 
'Ceptin' when th' band plays "Dixie" an' th' 

spirit slips its tether, 
An' old age drops down from off us an' we're 

like we was before — 
When th' magic of th' music conjures old 

scenes of our knowin', 
An' we're goin' into battle like a cheerin' gray 

machine ! 
Oh, I want to talk of comrades layin' where th' 

blooms are blowin'. 
Of th' comrades dead in battle an' th' years 

that stretch between ! 

I would like to put my shoulder 'gainst th' 

shoulder of a brother. 
One of them who marched beside me in th' 

tryin' days, an' dead. 
An' to peg-leg up throo Nashville throo th' dust 

an' heat an' smother 
With th' bands a-playin' "Dixie" an' th' ban- 
ners overhead 
Just a-risin' an' a-fallin', an' th' children run- 

nin' after, 
An' th' pretty girls a-wavin' f'm th' curb along 

th' street. 
An' th' tearful clieerful greetin's an' th' weepin' 

an' th' laughter — 
With th' glory of th' music in my heartstrings 

an' my feet. 

When I'm called to that reunion with th' com- 
rades over yonder, 
An' no sickness an' no poverty '11 keep me f'm 

their side, 
Like it does this week f'm Nashville, then I 

know th' guns'U thunder 
An' th' pearly gates of heaven be unlatched an' 

open wide ! 
When for me th' "taps" have sounded an' re- 

mainin' comrades lay me 
Where th' honeysuckle's perfume on th' evenin' 

breeze is blown. 
Oh, there's just one tune in heaven 'at I'm 

hopin' they will play me — 
I jest wanter hear ol' "Dixie" makin' music 

round the throne ! 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



A TRIBUTE to the KNIGHTS OF THE STARS and BARS. 

Ode to the Birth and Christening of the United Confederate Veterans, the 
Southern Cross of Honor and United Daughters of the Confederacy. 



The notes that are floating 'rouna us toclay 
Are freighted with memories sacred and 
warm; 
True, they speak but in echoes and live but in 
dreams, 
Yet their mission is vested with pathos and 
charm. 

They bring to us visions of our Davis and Lee, 
Our Jackson, Hood, Johnston, Magruder and 
Hill, 

Dick Dowling and all their comrades in gray, 
Whose records, with honor, our history fill. 

For the host "transferred" o'er the river to rest, 
'Neath the shade of the trees, on a campus 
above ; 
They bid us twine garlands of thought's im- 
mortelles 
And strew their green tents with tokens of 
love. 

'Tis all we can do— yet for the few 

Who bore with them the heat of the day, 

And are still "on the march," in life's sunset 
slope, 
Wearing, still wearing their old coats of gray. 

There are other duties we can fulfill, 

Other tributes we can and should pay 
In the pure coin of devotion and love. 

Kind deeds and sweet songs — to them we 
say- 
Knights of the Stars and Bars! 

Honored survivors of a cause (called) lost, 

attend, 
And let your far-famed "rebel yell" with our 
greeting blend. 

Mingle again, today, as only heroes may 
Who know what 'tis to do and dare! 

Pluck honor from an all unequal fray 
And mid defeat that honor still to wear. 

Long years have sped since you, brave men. 
In youth and vigor, donned the Southern 
^ray, 

And with strong arms, true as your steels. 
Marched to the front in hopeful, proud array. 

To the hopes, the fears, the smiles, the tears, 

The parting sighs and prayers 
Which followed you as volunteers. 

Faithful memory, witness bears. 



You fought — as only patriots fight; 

Were vanquished — but as heroes are, 
You proved your prowess e'en when might 

Eclipsed all save your polar star. 

No tremor seized you even then ; 

Sadly, yet proudly, did you bow. 
Furling with bronzed hands your flag — 

Unsullied then— held sacred now. 

Can we, your women, e'er do less 
Than your spotless records bless? 

Can we forget the trying past 

O'er which your deathless halo cast? 

No ! never, never, "while grass grows" — 
Never "while water runs" or flows — 

Never 'till life's sun has set 

Would we, if we could, forget. 

To you, we know, 'twas a dark day 

When dawn said this, "The war is o'er — " 

And peace, as with a taper pale. 

Lighted you back to your own door. 

For ah ! its beams could not restore 

Comrades lost — or fill the sleeve 
That empty hung — or relume 

The once proud hope — 'twas yours to grieve. 

Thank heaven ! All this is of the past, 
You are left battle-scarred, is true; 

Yet — heirs for aye to memories 
Not you or we blush to review. 

War came as comes the hot simoon — 

And patriot hearts, both blue and gray. 

Deplored the fierce edict of Mars 
Bidding brothers to meet in fray. 

In tiiat dread hour none stood alone 
Filled with anxious hopes and fears; 

Other eyes than ours were dim 

With far-off watching and hot tears. 

Yet, 'twas one hour when sympatny 
Heaven sent, went out to one and all 

^liose home treasures were called forth. 
Some to be shattered, some to fall. 

SOLILOQUY. 

Honest difference was no sin — 

To fight for right no shade of crime — 

Defeat no shame — for honor lived 
And proved our sacrifice sublime. 



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Nor was it wrong that our foes 

(Those by principle inspired), 
To rally to the stars and stripes; 

The flag we, too, had loved, admired. 

These had never known or felt 

The encroaching hand of undue weight, 

While Jealousy was laying fast 

Upon each prosperous Southern State. 

Thus, vindicated is the truth 

Of what our Gordon oft proclaimed — 

"We were right and they were right — 
Nor gray nor blue should be defamed." 

And never once should tongue or pen 

Throughout our reunited land 
Asperse the men on either side, 

Who did as honest patriots stand. 

I, as a gray, have made this vow, 
Never shall child of mine be taught 

That Southern men were traitors. 
Who for greed and glory fought. 

To this grand diapason, 

True, magnanimous and bold; 
This long and thrilling story 

Clearly, yet briefly, told, 

Is due the birth and christening of the "U. 

C. v.," 

The Southern Cross of Honor and the "U. 

D. C." 

Also that of a youthful band. 

Marching now through Dixieland, 

Known far and wide as the "C. A." — 

Scions of Southern chivalry, 

Of Southern worth, beauty and grace, 

All that gave the "Stars and Bars" a place ; 

And to them a priceless name. 

Wedded to virtue, honor and fame. 

— Mrs. M. D. Farris. 
HuDtsville, Texas, June 27, 1907. 



" DIXIE " GREATEST OF ALL. 

After close and laborious investigation, Mr. 
0. G. Shemmeck, chief of the division of music 
in the library of congress, has announced that 
"Dixie" is first in "patriotic jiopularity." Tho 
Baltimore Sun says that this discovery was made 
lon-r ago by all who have hoard its ringing 
strains, that from Terra del Fuego to the North 
Pole its music has caused the blood to leap and 
ilie li;s to cheer. 

To the people of the South, "Dixie" is what 



the "Marseillaise" is to France, or the "Wacht 
on the Rhine" is to Germany. It is consecrated 
by the memory of Lee and Jackson, of the 
camp tires brightened by its martial strains, and 
the fierce charges made to its inspiring notes. 
To an exiled Southerner it is the song of 
"home" and every note paints pictures of the 
well-loved "land of cotton," and involuntarily 
they echo : "I wish I was in Dixie." 

The song lives on when others come and go ; 
it is the living spirit of the South, and as long 
as the tinkle of banjos, the strains of fiddle-, the 
strum of pianos, the beat of drums the whistle 
of the fife, and the swing and splendor of the 
full brass band continue, "Dixie" will never 
lose its popularity. 



AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE. 

In Dixie cotton loves to grow 
With leaf of green and ball of snow; 
There waves the golden wheat and corn 
In Dixie Land where I was born. 

Away down South in Dixie, 

Away, away, away down South in Dixie 

In Dixie sweetest roses bloom, 
The jassamine yields its rare perfume. 
And here the sea breeze haunts the South 
With orange blossoms in her mouth ; 

Away down South in Dixie, 

Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

In Dixie Land we love to give 
With generous hand — we love to live 
With cheerful light and open door; 
What matter if the wind roar } 

Away down South in Dixie, 

Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

In Dixie skies are "bonnie blue," 
And Southern hearts are warm and true ; 
Let there be love throughout the world. 
The pure white flag of i)eace unfurled 
Floats way down South in Dixie, 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

In Dixie Land 'tis sweet to rove 
Thro' piny woods and sweet-gum grove; 
And hark! The Eebel mocking bird 
With sweetest song you ever heard 

Sings away down South in Dixie, 
Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 

In other lands 'tis sweet to roam, 
But Dixie Land is home, sweet home. 
And Southern maid with simple sonj 
Loves dear old Dixie, right or wrong. 

God bless the land of Dixie ! 

Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



SONG BIRD OF THE SOUTH. 

This ballad was written by Miss Carrie Belle 
Sinclair, in the midsummer of 18G2, while Miss 
Sinclair was in Augusta, Ga. 

There was a rivalry with the Augusta girls as 
to who should have the neatest homespun dress, 
and from this incident she took the idea and 
wrote that old war song. 

The poem was first published in an Augusta 
paper and copied in the Savanah Morning News. 

'"The Homespun Dress" was sung to the popu- 
lar air of "The Bonnie Blue Fiair," by a mem- 
ber of the "Queen Sisters," an English family, 
then holding the boards of the theater, and this, 
with other songs, written by her, soon won for 
their author the name, "Song Bird of the 
South." 



THE HOMESPUN DRESS. 

Oh, yes, I am a Southern girl. 

And glory in the name. 
And boast it with t-dV greater pride 

Than glittering wealth or fame. 
I envy not the Northern girl 

Her robes of beauty rare, 
1 hough diamonds grace her snowy neck 

And pearls bedeck her hair. 

Chorus — 
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 

For the Sunny South so dear! 
Three cheers for the homespun dress, 

Our Southern ladies wear ! 

My homespun dress is plain, I know, 

My hat's palmetto, too; 
But then it shows what Southern girls 

For Southern rights will do. 
We scorn to wear a bit of silk, 

A bit of Northern lace. 
But make our homespun dresses up. 

And wear them with such grace. 

Chorus — 

Now Northern goods are out of date ; 

And since old Abe's blockade. 
We Southern girls can be content 

With goods that's Southern made, 
'ihe Southland is a glorious land, 

And her's a glorious cause ; 
1'hen here's three cheers for Souihern rights. 

And for the Southern boys ! 

Chorus — 

We send the bravest of our land 

To battle with the foe, 
And we would lend a helping hand 

We love the South, you know. 



We send our sweethearts to the war; 

But, dear girls, never mind — 
YouT soldier lover will not forget 

The girl he left behind. 

A soldier is the lad for me — 

A brave heart I adore; 
And when the Sunny South is free, 

And fighting is no more, 
Fll choose me then a lover brave, 

From out that gallant band ; 
The soldier lad I love the best. 

Shall have my heart and hand. 

Chorus — 

And now, young men, a word to you; 

If you would win the fair, 
Go to the field where honor calls. 

And win your lady there. 
Eemember that our brightest smiles 

Are for the true and brave, 
And that our tears fall for the one 

Who fills a soldier's grave. 

Chorus — • 



"TO LIVE OR DIE FOR DIXIE." 

Created by a nation's glee, 
With jest, and song, and revelry, 
We sang it in our early pride 
Throughout our Southern borders wide. 
While from ten thousand throats rang oat 
A promise, in one glorious shout, 
"T6 live or die for Dixie I" 

How well that promise was redeemed, 
Is witnessed by each field where gleamed 
Victorious- — like the crest of Mars — 
The banner of the stars and bars ! 
The cannons lay our warriors low — 
We fill the ranks and onward go 
"To live or die for Dixie I" 

To die for Dixie ! Oh, how blest 
Are those who early went to rest. 
Nor knew the future's awful store. 
But deemed the cause they fought for sure 
As heaven itself, and so laid down. 
The cross of earth for Glory's crown. 
And nobly died for Dixie. 

To live for Dixie — harder iiart ! 
To stay the hand — to still the heart — 
To seal the lips, enshroud the past — 
To have no future — all o'ercast — 
To knit life's broken thread again, 
And keep her mem'ry free from stain — 
That is to live for Dixie. 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



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Beloved land ! Beloved song. 
Your thrilling power shall last as long 
Enshrined within each Southern soul 
As times eternal ages roll; 
Made holier by the test of years — 
Baptized with our country's tears — 
God and the right for Dixie ! 

Fannie Downing. 

The above poem was written soon after the 
close of the war by a sister of a Confederate 
naval officer, Mr. I\Iurdaugh, and sent to him 
where he was then living on the northern con- 
fines of the Argentine Republic. 



WAY DOWN SOUTH. 

The best of all the country 

Is way down South! 
The sweetest rose 
The country knows, 
The bluest violets 'at grows, 
The spiciest wind 'at ever blows. 

Is way down South ! 

The best of all the country 

Is way down South ! 
The greenest hills, 
The fastest rills. 
The finest fields a feller tills. 
The mockingbird — the whipporwills, 

Is way down South 

The best of all the country 

Is way down South ! 
The bluest skies. 
The brightest eyes, 
The love that takes you by surprise, 
That binds yer heart with tenderest ties, 

Is way down South. 

Baltimore News. 



THE CHARGE OF HOOD'S TEXAS 
BRIGADE AT GAINES' MILL. 

The following beautiful poem, bv Major Val 
C. Giles, of Austin, a member of Hood's Texas 
Brigade, and a participant in the battle of 
Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1802, which was one of 
the important battles of the war and of the 
country, will be read with marked interest by 
many, especially by those who participated in 
the battle. 

As the years pass and the history of the strug- 
gle 1861-1865 may be viewed more and more 
accurately and clearly the cool, calm work of 
Hood's Texas Brigade and/ their marvelous 
charges stand in a blaze of glory, permanent, 
brilliant pages in American history. 



The true way to perpetuate our history is to 
cherish such data as this from those who saw 
and heard, wlio were themselves in the thickest 
of the light, and who are spared to review it 
that the children of these brave men may know 
that their fathers were no holiday, gold-lace 
soldiery, but active, substantial patriots as the 
world is glad to recognize. 

— Kate Daffan. 

President Texas Division, United Daughters of 
the Confederacy. 



The charge of the Light brigade at Balaclava 

is one of the proudest, yet saddest, memories of 
the Briii.'h army. It has been immortalizf ,1 i'- 
etory and in song, yet the charge of Hood's Texas 
Brigade in the battle at Gaines' Mill in front of 
Eichmond, June 27, 1862, was equally as spec- 
tacular and incomparably more fatal to the 
brave men who made the charge. In fact no 
more gallant performance can be found in his- 
tory than that charge of Hood's Texans. 

In his report of the battle General Stonewall 
Jackson said "In this charge in wliich over 1,000 
men fell, killed and wounded, before the fire of 
the enemy, and in which fourteen pieces of 
artillery were captured, the Texas Brigade was 
the first to enter these strongholds aiid seize the 
guns." 

FORWARD, HOOD'S BRIGADE. 

We'll meet again, but not in strife, 

As in the da3's of yore ; 
Ah, what a change, '"but suchjs life," 

We'll fight with Lee no more. 
That grand old chief's promoted now, 

His rank is pure and high, 
He's gone to Join his old brigades, 

Encamped beyond the sky; 
For those who in that mystic land, 

'Neath our banner cherished dear. 
Who, in death unconquered stand. 

We give to you a prayer — a tear. 
Today our hearts freshly bleed 

O'er hopes withered and gone. 
As we, the past war's history read. 

And for lost comrades mourn. 
For Carter. Lambeit, Hutcheson, Ryan, 

Who muster with those heroes gone. 
We bow today at memory's shrine. 

And strike hands when the battle's won. 

flut my story changes, as does the day, 
When sunshine fades tn twilight gray; 
'Twas on the crest at Gaines' Mill, 
When came an order loud and shrill — 
In mv ear it echoes still : 

"Forward, Hood's Brigade!" 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



Ninety thousand men contending, 
Saber stroke and bayonets blending, 
"Sunny South" brave men defending, 
Fighting for the hind we loved. 
Through the smoke and din of battle. 
Cannons roar — muskets rattle — 
Battery horses wildly dashing 
O'er the dead and dying crashing, 
As they hurried in position 
On the bloody field at Riciimond — 

"Richmond on the James." 
Hissing, hurling through the air, 
Grape and canister wildly tear — 
Through our ranks death spread everywhere. 

"Forward, Hood's Brigade." 

Down the slope the column rushes. 

With that wild rebellious yell ; 
There before them rawned an abyss. 

Dark and deep and wide as hell; 
Still with hearts as true as steel, 

"Not a man dismayed," 
Death or victory — never yield, 

"Forward, Hood's Brigade." 

Horrid murder here and there 
Seemed to reign supreme where 
The Lone Star banner waving high ; 
Amid the crash there came a cry, 
"McClellan's flanked— they fly, they fly !" 



Then a scene of wild confusion, 

Equaled save by those who bled 
When the army of Napoleon 

From the allies turned and fled, 
Divisions running, regiments flying, 
Cavalry dashing, horses dying; 
Still amid tiiat dreadful fray 
Presses on that line of gray. 

"Forward, Hood's Brigade." 

From our sight the foeman fled. 
Leaving there ten thousand dead. 
Then it was that Stonewall said, 
"God bless that old brigade." 

And when the sun had gone to rest. 

And light began to fade. 
The moon rose with her sad, pale face 

And wept with that old brigade. 
For many a jacket bloody and gray 

On the damp, cold ground was lying, 
And sad was the soldier's heart that night 

As he watched by his friend who was dying. 
Many long years have vanished since then. 

And the violets may blossom and fade. 
But their memory is cherished and flourishes yet 

In the hearts of that "Old Brigade." 

Val C. Giles. 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE IN REUNION 
AT GALVESTON, MAY 7, 1874. 



Possibly no lietter test of "deeds performed" 
and appreciation therefor can be found than in 
the reproduction of sentiments expressed — near- 
ly forty years ago — in reference to Hood's Texas 
Brigade as are evidenced by following speeches 
at the Galveston reunion : 

Hood's Texas Brigade, May 7. 1874, Third An- 
nual Reunion, Galveston, Texas — 

(Galveston Neivs.) 

It is not our intention in the present article 
to attempt even a resume of the movements of 
the gallant brigade, a portion of the survivors 
of which celebrated h.ere yesterday their third 
annual reunion. Such could not lie done within 
the space of any ordinary newspaper article, and 
it remains for some future historian to chronicle 
at length the incidents, the hardships, the vic- 
tories and reverses which made up the life and 
record of this celebrated corps during the 
eventful epoch embraced between the years 
1861 and 186.5. 



That a record shoiihl shortly be compiled 
and given to the world is due not only to the 
survivors of the different rerjimenis forming 
the hngude, hut the memory of the gallant dead 
calls for sometliing of the hind to he done, as 
portraying a devotion to principle, to patriot- 
ism, and to all the manly virtues, never excelled 
in the annals of the world. It is believed that 
a historical associ-ition trill shortly be formed 
in connection with Hood's Brigade, ivhich trill 
furnish such stalistirs and information as will 
further this purpose, and from which may he 
compiied a record of daring and devotion that 
the memory of the past deserves, and which his- 
tory cannot afford to lose. 

But allusion to a few of the lending events in 
the career of the corps may not be without in- 
terest at the present time. When — 

Wild war's deadly blast was lilown 
and the South was buckling on her armor for a 
contest that was to decide her fate as a separate 
nationality, responsive to the summons sprung 



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221 



the youth and chivalry of the Lone Star State — 
and first in order was the dashing Hood's Bri- 
gade, the after lecord of which forms one of the 
brightest pages in the history of the doomed 
Confederacy. It was not for them to reason 
as to tlie disorganizing causes which had brought 
about the necessity for a dissolution of the 
Union; the die had been cast by the loaders of 
their section — theirs the part to maintain the 
issue to a successful consummation. And right 
nobly did these sterling troops perform their 
duty. 

Early in the spring of 1861 a number of regi- 
ments were organized throughout the State, and 
were assigned to position in different parts of 
the Confederacy then menaced by the enemy. 
The First, Fourth and Fifth Texas Regiments 
were ordered directly to Virginia, where they 
were formed into that celebrated brigade, whose 
actions afterward on many well contested fields 
told of the valor native to the soil which gave 
its members birth. The brigade as enrolled was 
made up of four regiments — the First Texas, 
under command of Colonel Hugh McLeod; the 
Fourth, under Col. J. B. Hood ; the Fifth, under 
Col. J. J. Archer, and the Eighteenth Georgia 
under conimnnd of Col. Wofford, tog-ether with 
Reiley's North Carolina Battery. After the cel- 
ebrated campaign into Jlaryland, the Eigh- 
teenth Georgia was transferred into another 
corps, but was succeeded by the Third Arkan- 
sas. At one time also Hampton's Legion formed 
a part of the brigade, but the Legion likewise 
was transferred after a limited period of serv- 
ice. The Third xirkansas and Eeiley's Battery 
remained a portion of the corps until the sur- 
render at Appomattox. 

The first year of the war was not productive 
of much genuine active service for the Texas bri- 
gade. The armies of both the North and the 
South, after the affairs at Bethel and Manassas, 
feeling the magnitude of the struggle upon 
which they had engaged, lav watching each 
other like gladiators. The celebrated pronun- 
ciamento of Mr. Lincoln, ordering the disper- 
sion of the Confederate troops, failing in its 
effect, and the recoil of the first army sent out 
from the North upon the National capital, 
taught that section that the ninety day business 
was a mistaken calculation ; but true to the geni- 
us of the people of that ];ortion of the Union, 
they went to work at jiermanent organization of 
their military departments. McClellan was then 
chief in command of the armies of the United 
States. Few will deny the capacity of this officer 
as an organizer. His masterly genius taught him 
that a people endowed with the courage and 
high chivalric qualities of the Southerner 
would require more demonstrative arguments 



than paper bulletins to desist from their under- 
taking; and, as a consequence, ne employed the 
fall and winter of 18G1 and the spring of 1862 
in the discipline and armament of several splen- 
did army corj.s. ilagnificently equipped with 
the best arms then known to the service, with 
artillery in abundance, and a commissariat af- 
fording every comfort and necessary to^ the 
troops in the field. McClellan made a sudden 
change of front from the line of the Rapidan 
and turned up at Fortress Monroe. The chief 
with which the Federal was then contending 
was the able and sagacious Confederate leader. 
General Joseph E. Johnston. This movement of 
McClellan forced Johnston to a counter action, 
and the scene of warfare was transferred for a 
time to the Virginia peninsula. 

The rapid "falling back" of Johnston's army 
upon the line of invasion, was one of that great 
chieftain's most splendid achievements. It 
blinded and confused the Federal leader. When 
McClellan touched the Southern lines at York- 
town, stretching to the James river, he found a 
handful of men under the hazardous Magruder, 
and never dreamed that such a force would con- 
test the road to Richmond with an enemy one 
hundred and twenty thousand strong. He 
fancied that Johnston's forces were on the 
ground, and set himself to work at seige opera- 
tions. The result is a matter of history. The 
Confederate army of the Rapidan had time to 
reach the peninsula before McClellan was aware 
of his mistake, and Richmond was saved for 
further and more desperate contests. 

The arms that for a year before had remained 
unused had no further time to spare. Among 
the first troops to reach the battle grounds were 
those comprising the Texas brigade. The three 
Texas regiments were armed with the minie 
rifle — the Eighteenth Georgia had only the 
smooth-bore musket. At West Point, or, 
a* it is sometimes called, Eltham's Landing, 
the brigade first sheathed its maiden sword. 
And a fine piece of steel it was. No discount 
on the boj's from the prairies that morning. 
Then followed, in rapid succession, the memora- 
ble achievements of the Peninsula campaign. 
Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, Free- 
man's Ford, the Second Manassas, South Moun- 
tain, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and several 
minor engagements, comjiose the galaxy of vic- 
torious names won by the brigade up to the 
close of 1862. 

The Army of the West at this time was sev- 
erely pressed. Virginia being relieved by the 
destruction of several splendidly appointed 
Northern armies, troops for a time could be 
spared. Chosen and tried ones were needed on 
a new field of action, and where better were 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



the}' to be had than among the daring Texas 
infantry. In the Army of the West, Hood's 
Brigade participated in the actions of Chiea- 
mauga, Knoxville, Bean's Station, and Straw- 
berry Plains, carrying with them all the way 
though the dash and elan which had distin- 
guished them through the splendid struggles in 
Virginia. The grand old State being once more 
overrun, and the Confederate capital threaten- 
ed, they were returned to their original battle 
grounds, to fight them o"er again. 

By this time the brigade was fearfully cut up. 
Its decimated ranks presented no longer that 
lengthened and stolid front of steel which had so 
often carried death and destruction into Federal 
lines ; but the veterans, though few in number, 
could be counted on to a man, and never flinch- 
ed the hosts that opposed them. The brigade was 
a portion of the corps commanded by Long- 
street. It reached Virginia from the West in 
time once more to save its capital, the occasion 
being the fearful struggle of the Wilderness. 

And it was here that over all other contests 
the Hood Brigade won fame and immortality. 
On the 5th of ^May, 18G4, the Federal army en- 
gaged the Confederate troops under General 
Lee. The ground was rugged and terribly chos- 
en, unfit for the operations of cavalry because of 
the timber, and not suited to the quick move- 
ments of light and outnumbered infantry such 
as the Confederates were. The bnmt of the fight 
was borne at long range, which put the Confed- 
ates at a disadvantage because of the superior 
armament of the Federals. The struggle was aw- 
ful. Upon the extreme right of the Confederate 
army were the divisions of Heth and Wilcox. 
Thev were pressed bv the magnificent army 
corps of General Hancock, who commanded the 
left wing of the Federal forces. The contest had 
been terrific during the entire afternoon, and it 
was all the Confederates could do to hold the 
ground. This lasted into the night, and about 
9 o'clock the wearied and decimated troops lay 
down to rest. Lee, at this time, was waiting with 
intense anxiety the arrival of Longstreet with 
his corps from the west, who had reached within 
nine miles of the battleground on the night of 
the 5th. 

After the closing of the engagement on that 
night. General Wilcox reported in person to 
General Lee that so fearful had been the havoc 
made among his troops, that he could no longer 
hold the position, and asked to be permitted to 
retire to straighten up his line. General Lee 
answered, "Let the poor men rest ; General 
Longstreet will relieve yoii before morning." 

With the dawn of day again commenced the 
engagement. Xo support yet from Longstreet, 
and the shattered divisions of Heth and Wilcox 



gave way before the overpowering hosts of Han- 
cock. This was a fearful moment to the great 
commander. He immediately gave orders 
for the retirement of the supply train, between 
which and the enemy there was nothing but -the 
thinned lines of Heth and Wilcox, and in agony 
of spirit remarked to an oiEicer of his staff, 
"We are beaten." Just as he uttered these 
words, a yell from the Texas brigade, which was 
the advance of Longstreet's corps, was heard in 
the rear, and the men burst into view. General 
Lee advanced to the head of the column, and, 
ordering a charge, proposed to lead it in person 
into action. He had passed with the men some 
distance in the charge before he was discovered ; 
but no sooner did the men see their beloved 
commander, upon whom the hopes of all were 
cast, in a position of such imminent danger, that 
a feeling of horror seized them, and the famous 
cry was passed along the line : "Lee to the rear." 
The column halted. Apparently heedless of 
their desire. Lee remained in the advance, when 
the column refused to move vmless he retired to 
the rear. At the instant four men sprimg from 
the ranks to lead him off, when one of them got 
possession of the curb-rein of the General's war 
steed "Traveler," and jerked him to a half 
wheel, Lee reluctantly retiring at the demands 
of the chivalric brigade. The l)oys moved on, 
satisfied with their general's safety, and held 
in check the advance of Hancock until the re- 
mainder of their corps came up. But for this 
splendid movement the victory of the enemy 
would have been complete, for Longstreet's 
forces were not deployed when the divisions 
of Heth and Wilcox were driven from the field. 
It was a grand action, but of 811 men who 
made the charge, 565 were killed and wounded, 
and the gallant sons of the Lone Star State 
saved the day at the Wilderness with the best 
blood of the heroes of twenty battles. 

General Lee always cherished this noble and 
splendid achievement of the Texas troops at the 
Wilderness; and when in 1864 a consolidation of 
the Army of Xorthern Virginia was effected, by 
special orders from Lee the esprit du corps of 
the Hood Brigade remained untouched — in 
token, no doubt, of their magnificent services. 

The histon,- of the brigade from the Wilder- 
ness down to Appomattox was one continued 
round of victorv-. They participated in the ac- 
tions of Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg 
and the series of battles round Richmond in the 
fall and winter of 1864, and never once display- 
ed but the highest order of courage and military 
bearing. Their record is a most glorious one; 
and though Fate decreed that at Appomattox 
they should stack arms before the overwhelm- 
ing hordes which a world could furnish their 



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223 



enemy, impartial history will reveal the fact 
that the Army of Northern Virginia, under 
Eohert Lee, for deeds of valor and patient en- 
durance, has no superior recorded in its annals. 
And the Texas Brigade wears in its chaplet one 
of the brightest roses that decorate its memory. 

The three Te.xas regiments in this historic 
brigade numbered at the beginning of the war 
some 3,000 men. They possibly received ac- 
cessions afterward to the amount of 1,200 more 
— which makes the entire strength of the force 
employed foot up about 4,200 strong. The bri- 
gade, all told, must have participated in between 
thirty and forty pitched battles and minor skir- 
mishes, in nine of which each separate regiment 
composing it lost in killed and wounded over 
half the men engaged. This was simply fear- 
ful ; but it shows that where the hot work was, 
the Texas troops were likely to be found. The 
brigade lost in killed during the entire war 
some 1,200 officers and men, and almost every 
man in it was wounded — many of them several 
times. 

Such is a slight review of the military ser- 
vices rendered the Confederacy by the gallant 
survivors who yesterday celebrated their third 
annual reunion, for an idea of the success of 
which the reader is referred to the account which 
follows. 



GALVESTON REUNION NOTES. 

THE REMNANT 

Of the gallant brigade, at 4 p. m., formed in 
double file, and passed from Harmony Hall to 
the Opera House, marching through the opened 
ranks of the Washington Guards and Lone Star 
Eifles, who received the veterans at a "present 
arms," when they were entertained by Major 
F. C. Hume with the following 

ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

Comrades of the Old Brigade — Standing in 
the sunshine and peace of the present, we wel- 
come you, soldiers of the stormy past, to hearts 
and homes that are never closed to the brave, 
nor opened to the dastard. Upon me has de- 
volved the duty of expressing this welcome in 
behalf of our brethren resident here in this 
sweet city by the sea; and if I fail to convey 
to you the most earnest conviction of the joy 
we feel in having you with us again after many 
months of our separation, it will be the fault of 
my expression, and not that of the warm hearts 
that invoke it. 

I am proud to tell you that our people delight 
to honor you — all bronzed as you are with Vir- 
ginia suns and snows — marked with scars and 
shattered with wounds, coming together here to 



join hands and exchange sympathies once more 
in the march of life. 

Yes, you may feel sure thatj iilthough the 
dead past is commanded to bury its dead, and 
men come and go and smile and weep as if its 
sepulture were complete and its history forgot- 
ten, yet no true heart can repress the electric 
thrill that attends the mention of the names of 
the men who made the charge at Gaines' Mill — 
swept clear the fearful front of battle at Manas- 
sas — led away their imperiled chieftain from 
the awful slaughter of the Wilderness^ — made 
the rocks and hills of Sharpsburg and Gettys- 
burg historic liy their valor — and at last, with 
bleeding feet and broken hearts endured to- 
gether the supreme and closing agony at Appo- 
mattox ! 

We are but a little handful now, my comrades. 
Of all the pride and strength and glory that 
made tlie name of our command a camp-fire 
word in the grand army, fought under the lead- 
ership of Lee, we only remain. Did I say we 
only remain ? Not so. The loftiest, the proud- 
est, the purest glory of all remains to us and to 
our country in the memory of those dear com- 
rades who gave up their lives for the cause, 
which, if all else were wanting to render worthy, 
was sanctified by their devotion. To their deeds 
we look for inspiration — to them we point as 
examples of constancy, courage, patience and 
long suffering under misfortunes impossible to 
be borne but by heroes. They lie in unmarked 
graves from Suffolk to Gettysburg, but God 
does not forget their resting place. His spirit, 
we trust, will renew them in the great day and 
cover their scarred bodies with unfading vest- 
ments. They followed their convictions to the 
grave, and expended their last wealth in strik- 
ing for the land of their love. 

How can man die better 
Than facing fearful odds. 
For the ashes of his fathers 
And the temple of his gods ! 
And for tlie tender mother 
That dandled him to rest; 
And for the wife that nursed 
His baby at her breast. 

On this balmy spring day the green grasses 
grow about their graves as lovingly as if their 
heroism had been rewarded by victory, and we 
can love them just as much, and cherish their 
memories just as tenderl.y, as if their names had 
never been associated with the canting reproach 
of "disloyalty" and "treason." While living 
they were our brothers in thought, purpose and 
deed, and death itself is impotent to break the 
bonds of that faternity. Therefore, in this re- 
union, we feel that though dead, they are not 



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distant from us, and tliough they are resting 
"under tlie trees"' be^yond the river, we can al- 
most catch tbp phrases of their spiritual greet- 
ing. Let it be our care, comrades, to live so 
bravely and purely t!ii;l we will not be held un- 
worthy to have been their associates in life, or 
to renew their com; anionship when death conies 
to call us to another world. 

Today let us be glad tliat those of us now 
present have been permitted to assemble to- 
gether in this hospitable city, and take new 
courage from all that we see and hear about us. 
Let us be proud and grateful that gallant men 
in uniform and arms stand about us in token 
of soldierly respect for soldierly deeds ; and, 
above all, that gentle women, true to the tra- 
ditions of their sex, are here to testify, by 
their presence and sympathy, their admiration 
for your gallantry and their devotion to the 
principles that nerved you to bear, without a 
murmur, the many years of privation and suf- 
fering that have made you old while yet lin- 
gering upon the threshold of youth. 

I now commend to your attention and re- 
gard the gallant gentlemen who are to succeed 
me, and to whose addresses my own brief re- 
marks have only been given as an introduction. 

ADDRESS OF GEN. T. N. WAUL. 

Was next introduced to the assembly. Address- 
ing himself to the soldiers of Hood's Texas 
Brigade he extended to them a liearty welcome, 
in behalf of the soldiers of other commands 
during the late war, and of the citizens gen- 
erally. 

He dwelt at length upon the recollections 
evoked by their presence — recollections of 
Gaines' Jlill, Sharpsburg, Manassas, the Wil- 
derness, and a hundred other blood-stained 
fields where their prowess had shed undying 
lustre upon the names of Texan soldiers. Ex- 
hibiting the war-worn battleflag of the old 
brigade, torn into tatters by the leaden hail 
and faded by exposure in the far off fields of 
Virginia, it was greeted with a torrent of ap- 
plause that lasted for some moments. He said 
that ho remembered well the time when the 
first two companies of Texas troops arrived at 
the capital of the Confederate States. He was 
at breakfast when the news of their arrival was 
first brought to him, and upon going to their 
places of bivouac he found them a small but 
determined band whose bronzed faces nnd rudo 
garments indicated the hardships they had en- 
dured in their long inarch from the far off 
Southland. 

The little band soon increased in numbers 



and was formed into a battalion, of which the 
late General Louis T. Wigfall became the com- 
manding officer. He remembered how the fair 
ladies of Richmond were in the habit of at- 
tending the inspections and dress parades of 
the Texans — these parades being the most prom- 
inent feature of the hour. 

Referring to his next meeting with them at 
Manassas, the speaker paid a handsome tribute 
to the untiring devotion of Mrs. Wigfall, the 
widow of their first connnander. He next met 
them on the banks of the Potomac, after their 
letirement from Gettysburg, from whence they 
sent back their greetings to their brethren in 
Texas. 

Alluding to the oft-quoted remark that treas- 
on should be made odious, the speaker said that 
no such cause as that which was lost at Appo- 
mattox could ever be made odious. Such self- 
sacrifice as that displayed during the four long 
years of strife could not have odium attachecl 
to it. The men who fought the battles of the 
South would have the veneration and respect of 
the good and brave of all nations. 

Those who would attempt to east odium 
upon their cause would be held by every true 
soldier in the utmost detestation. They could 
honor the brave man ^vho met them with his 
helmet down and ready for the fray, but for 
those who shirked the field of battle and at- 
tem]3ted to asperse the characters of others 
whose convictions of duty led them into the 
carnage, language was insufficient to express 
the measure of contempt. He asked them to 
vow by this tattered banner, the emblem of their 
lost hopes, to stand by Texas, her history and 
her honor. The glory of Texas was as unsul- 
lied today as when she achieved her independ- 
ence in the days of 1836. 

To the ladies the General addressed himself 
in graceful terms, referring to their sacrifices 
and devotion during the long and terrible war. 
Wherever suffering was there they were found, 
nunistering to the afflictions of the unfortu- 
nate. A Roman matron being asked for her jew- 
els, had pointed to her sons, saying: "These 
are my jewels." Our wives and daughters had 
freely given u]) their gold and diamonds for 
tlic purpose of placing muskets in the hands of 
the soldiers. When the news had reached the 
wife that her hu.sband was dead, with Spartan 
fortitude she had said to her son : "Go, my boy, 
pick up your fatlier's musket, and take his place 
in the ranks." 

For want of space we can only give a brief 
synopsis of the distinguished speaker's remarks, 
which were frequently interrupted by applause. 



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After music by the Lone Star band 

Col. Thomas M. Jack, of Terry's 
Texas Rangers, 

was introduced. He said that the very ]jleasaiit 
duty had been assigned him of welcoming the 
members of Hood's Texas Brigade in behalf of 
another branch of the army — he referred to 
Terry's Texas Rangers. As a member of the 
Rangers, he bid them welcome. During the 
war no charge was made or peril encountered 
by them that did not cause the hearts of all 
to swell with pride as they said : "God bless the 
soldiers of Hood's Brigade." Every soldier pres- 
ent that wore the gray gave them a welcome 
to Galveston. It was the custom in Rome in 
the olden time to do homage to her soldiery 
when they returned from the wars. It was just- 
ly so, for the sword was then the emblem of 
power. Here, however, it was different. Here 
we had no successful heroes to crown and 
no armies to welcome back. Nor had we 
minstrels to sing of the glorious achieve- 
ments of the bloody fields whereon our patriots 
had displayed their heroism. Yes, there was one 
— one who had tuned her lyre, and in burning 
words had told how Hood's Texas Brigade went 
"Straggling to the Front," and how the rude 
soldiers in tattered apparel had sent "Lee to 
the rear," at the Wilderness. 

The speaker said that Texas had a bright and 
glorious history from the Alamo to the surren- 
der of the forces at Appomattox ; a history that 
was unstained by dishonor. It was right that 
her soldiers should be here and mingle upon 
this occasion. The hearts of this entire people 
beat in unison with those of the veterans of 
Hood's Brigade. Why this outpouring of la- 
dies and gentlemen, young and old? Why do 
the hearts of all Texans rise up to^eet you? 
It is because you leaped forward at the first 
tap of the drum and staid there. You are the 
men who seized the reins of the horse of our 
grand old chieftain and asked that Texans 
might be sent forward to lead in the battle. 
It was because in your actions that you resem- 
bled the Old Guard of Napoleon. It is because 
you carried this flag (applause) into the 
strongholds of the enemy and brought it bad', 
tattered and torn as it was. This is why we 
love you. 

The speaker said that Gen. Waul had re- 
ferred to the Roman matron who had pointed 
to her children as her jewels. He thought that 
if the voice of Texas could be expressed here 
today she would (pointing to the veterans be- 
fore him) say: "These are my sons; I am the 
mother of Hood's Brigade." 

Although their swords were sheathed, they 



had other and important duties to perform. 
Texas was one of the most beautiful and fertile 
countries under the sun; it was inhabited by 
beautiful women and brave men, and her de- 
velopment and unlimited prosperity had only 
fairly commenced. He besought them to re- 
member the State of their adoption or nativity, 
and to be true to it in the hours of peace, as 
they had been in times of war. Let her fair 
territory remain unmutilated. (Applause.) Let 
it be Texas first, Texas last, and Texas for all 
time. 

Men of Hood's Brigade, Veterans of a Lost 
Cause — God bless you, God bless you. 

The conclusion of Col Jack's remarks, of 
which the above is but a meagre report, was 
followed by the remarks of 

Col. C. M. Winkler. 

In behalf of the Texas Brigade, Col. Winkler 
said it was a trite saying that republics were 
ungrateful, but such ingratitude as the citizens 
of Galveston had manifested toward him and 
his old comrades of Hood's Brigade was rather 
agreeable than otherwise ; that they would cher- 
ish this reception as long as memory lasted. He 
dared not undertake to express his own feel- 
ings, to say nothing of those of his comrades — 
the remnant of the once noble band of soldiers. 
He would say, however, that while Texan valor 
had been tested on almost every battlefield, 
from the Rio Grande to Gettysburg, the name 
of the State from which they came had never 
been dishonored. He claimed nothing for 
Hood's Brigade that was not due other Texan 
troops wherever they might have served. They 
were willing to stand alongside of the other or- 
ganizations, and did not wish to be placed for- 
ward on the score of superior valor. The speak- 
er, referring to the charges of treason brought 
against the South, said that Texas had never 
fought for anything but what she considered 
the right, and he was not prepared to say that 
she was not in the right during the late war. In 
fact, he was of the opinion that the young men 
who were seated before him with muskets in 
their hands would live to see the day when the 
government would be administered upon the 
very principles for which the South fought. 

He said that if the government should treat 
him as an austere mother he should obey her 
mandates; but that if, on the other hand, she 
should grant him the rights and privileges of a 
freeman, he should feel disposed to rush into 
her arms and set down to her table. And should 
she take a notion to enlarge the boundaries of 
her dominions, I don't know that I would hesi- 
tate to shoulder a musket again in her behalf. 



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The remarks of the gallant Colonel were re- 
ceived with much enthusiasm, after which 

Dr. S. O. Young, 

Son of Mrs. M. J. Young, the distinguished 
authoress, was introduced, and spoke as follows: 
Fellozv-Soldicrs of Hood's Brigade — In Oc- 
toher, 1864, my mother received from the hand 
of the committee, Capt. D. C. Farmer, Com- 
pany A, Capt. W. T. Hill and Lieut. A. C. 
Woodall, of Company D, who were dispatched 
by you from the intrenchments near Richmond, 
to bear to her the worn and blood-stained bat- 
tle flag you did her the honor to send. 

At her bidding I ap]iear before you today 
to unfurl this fhig to receive your greeting. 
(Applause.) A'ery torn, and faded, and stain- 
ed ; torn in a hundred conflicts, faded by wind 
and sun. stained by the blood of that brigade! 
Can I offer you anything so deserving of your 
homage? It was your guiding star. It is our 
greatest earthly tre-:isure. 

It has been' the winding sheet over many a 
manly breast, who fell bearing it forward. I do 
not unfurl its weary folds to kindle any un- 
peaceful feelings. We let the dead past bury its 
dead. But our dead are immortal ; they live in 
our hearts, and shall live till there shall be no 
Te.xan on earth to love valor, and honor sublime 
devotion to principle. This flag is the sacred tal- 
isman that evokes ever\' manly form back from 
his grave — to stand with us here today, and joy 
with friends we love and those we mourn. Too 
young myself to have had any participation in 
your glories, yet I have been admitted as one 
of you ; I suppose because I honor and love you 
so much. My mother, in her letter to you, said 
she would swear me to duty on her Bible and 
this flag. 

Gentlemen, she certainly has kept her prom- 
ise; and if I have not drawn in the breath of 
patriotic devotion to the South and her sol- 
diers, and above all to Hood's Brigade, it is not 
because its incense has not daily risen from our 
home altar. 

She pledged her name and race to preserve 
this flag as long as one of them existed. I, in 
my own"name, reiterate that pledge. The grayes 
of my ancestors would not be defended with 
more sacred care than that which this flag shall 
command from me and mine. 



TO HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 

(Third .Annual Reunion, Galveston, Texas, 
May 7, 1874.) 

I wake my slumbering Harp again, 
I sweep once more its silent strings; 

I trembling touch the olden strain, 

Whose every note some memory brings. 



Jt led to battle once, your blades 

Triumphant drew, a trumpet tone. 
To vict'ry once your bold brigades 

Where banners waved and rifles shown. 

But hushed by griefs I dare not name. 

The song hath slept thro' lonesome years 
With that neglected oriflamme. 

Whose burning Stars were quenched in tears. 
And if its lightness all is fled. 

If broken chords alloy the strain, 
'Tis but because the hopes are dead 

That gave it strength and sweetness then. 

YE ARE GOME TO THE HALLS OF HEROES. 

A ring of old music is in the air, 

That thrills like a thrill of the days gone by 
With its martial burden "We Do and We Dare!" 

And the heart, as of old, beats fast, beats 
high. 
There are flags on the walls whose dark blood 
stains 

Tell mighty tales of the battle rout — 
Of the columns flying along the lanes — ■ 

Of Honor and Duty — of Hope and Doubt. 

There are voices mingling that once rang out 

High and clear thro' the battle-din. 
Sending the brave, with a clarion shout. 

To where Danger with Death was closing in ; 
There are scars of a hundred battles, won 

And lost, on the faces gathered here, 
And the records of daring deeds that were done 

On a hundred fields in the days that were ! 

BUT, ROOM FOR THE DEAD ! MAKE ROOM FOR 
THE DEAD ! 

There are jihantom forms that come crowd- 
ing in 

With rifle in hand and sword at knee, 
A silent army, wdiose battles are won — 

Grand and fearless — that follow Lee! 
There blazes the burning oriflamme 

In the hand that bore it at Malvern Hill, 
And here is the group that dealt such shame 

To the flying foe at Gaines' Mill ! 

All here! From tlie blue-eyed boy who went 

In a blaze of glory from Seven Pines, 
To the bearded man whose blood was spent 

Unknown and unwatched in the picket lines; 
And a ring of the old music is in the air 

That thrills, like a thrill of the days gone by, 
With tlie martial burden "We Do and We 
Dare!" 

And the heart, as of old, beats fast, beats 
high ! 
Ye are come to the halls of heroes ! 



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Comrades, both living and dead, arise 

And pledge me in silence that Wonderful 
Past, 
With its bloody fields and its gloomy skies. 

And its hopes sown thick on the battle blast; 
For its spirit is here in our midst today 

Breaking and blessing the bread of our pain, 
Surely the stone shall be rolled away 

And that Past shall rise and rejoice again ! 

MOLLIE E. MOORE. 



Palestine, Anderson County, Texas, 

April 28, 1874. 

Leslie Thompson, Esq., Galveston, Texas: 

Dear Sir: Your favor of April 16th is re- 
ceived, inviting me to attend the third annual 
reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade, to be held 
in Galveston on the 7th of May proximo, and 
adding, ''The toys' will expect a talk," and 
asking me to notify you if I can be present. 

I should esteem it a very high privilege and 
a special pleasure to meet and mingle again 



with the survivors of that devoted and heroic 
brigade, in whose noble services and Splendid 
achievements I took the greatest interest at the 
time they were being performed. 

It was my fortune to be familiar with the 
greater portion of those who constituted that 
proud and glorious brigade, and to he very fully 
informed, both by the officers and men of the 
brigade, and by their superior officers, includ- 
ing General Lee, of their unequaled and un- 
rivaled courage and efficiency in battle, and of 
their faithfulness in camps, and manly endur- 
ance on the march. I knew, too, full well their 
privations and sufferings for four long, event- 
ful years, in a cause which commanded the de- 
votion of our inmost hearts. And I would to- 
day rather that it had been my honor to have 
been a member of that peerless brigade, even 
as a private soldier than to liave filled any 
other position in the fight of our people. 

If I find it possible I will be with you. 
Very truly and respectfully, 

John H. Reagan. 



THE HUNTSVILLE REUNION. 



At the fourth annual reunion, held at Hunts- 
ville, Texas, July 2nd, 1875, Judge Benton 
Randolph spoke as follows : 

Fellow Soldiers of Hood's Brigade: 

Your comrades here have assigned to me the 
pleasant duty of bidding you welcome to our 
town, once the home of Houston, and now the 
final resting place of the Father of Texas. 

Beholding you all, scarred and maimed as you 
are, brings to mind other days and scenes in 
which you and the absent ones acted so well 
your parts. Responding to the first bugle notes, 
and returning only when the last battle had 
been fought, you were four years soldiers in- 
deed, undergoing all the toil, pain, privation, 
hardship and danger which have fallen to the 
common lot of every little band of patriots who, 
since the world began, have manifested suffi- 
cient courage to choose death instead of degra- 
dation as a daily business or vocation. I will 
here state parenthetically that you have not 
now, nor ever had, any objection to the Govern- 
pient of the United States. It was only of what 
you conceived to be a partial and unjust admin- 
istration of it that you ever complained. It 
is consoling to reflect that the officer who com- 
manded the armies of the United States in the 
late war, who then, like all his comrades, looked 
upon certain statutes and provisions in the Con- 
stitution and the decisions of the Supreme 



Court of the Government, only w'ith contempt, 
scorn and derision, has recently announced offi- 
cially to the world that "it is his duty, as the 
head of the Government of the United States, 
to enforce the laws thereof, whether found on 
the Statute Book, in the Constitution, or in the 
opinion of a Federal Judge, without pausing to 
inquire whether that law or that opinion is 
founded in wisdom or not." Who does not feel 
and know, if the Government had been admin- 
istered in 1861 in accordance with this senti- 
ment, that we would have had no war at all? 
And who would not today, in the face of all the 
cant about disloyalty and treason, prefer that 
his name should be handed down to posterity 
and the lovers of free government, as one who 
fought for equality in the Union, or the priv- 
ilege of being let alone out of it, rather than 
have it transmitted as the champion of a party, 
or government if you will, who denied a right 
so clear and just? 

The truth is, and the late war we trust has 
impressed it indelibly on the minds and hearts 
of some besides those who reside in the South, 
that justice is an eternal, immutable law of 
God ; and no human government can long exist 
in peace and prosperity where the law does not 
enter into and form a part and parcel of it, and 
extend its blessed protecting fegis equally and 
alike over every section, however remote, and 
over every citizen, however humble. 



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But I must stop this digression, due alike, as 
I conceive, to you and the memory of your 
fallen comrades, and return to the subject re- 
fen-ed to in the beginning of my remarks. 

Your proud reputation began with your first 
battle; and from that day forward, wherever 
you went, you were hailed by the soldiers, and 
by the noble men and women of Virginia, as 
Hood's gallant Texas Brigade. At West Point, 
from early dawn till dewy eve, your command 
were the only soldiers between twenty thousand 
of the enemy and the entire wagon train of the 
army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. That olficer 
was delighted with your services, and passed the 
highest encomiums upon you, stating in sub- 
stance that it was impossible to calculate the re- 
sults of your victory, that you had certainly 
saved his entire transiwrtation, and he did not 
know but that you had saved his entire army. 

You were equally successful in winning the 
respect and confidence of General Lee. Gaines' 
Mill, you will remember, was your first en- 
gagement after he took command of the army. 
Y^ou did not there, as at West Point, do all the 
fighting, but in the language of the gallant 
Hood, "you did, by your daring charge, change 
the tide" of battle from that of defeat to that 
of victory." At the Wilderness the defeat was 
more complete; the line had been actually 
broken when you appeared on the ground, and 
General Lee attempted to lead you into the jaws 
of death. Although you were ready and willing, 
as you had ever been, to sacrifice your lives on 
your country's altar, your love for that noble 
old chieftain was too great to allow him to do 
so. Quickly passing your command along the 
line, "Lee to the rear," you speedily enforced 
it; and for a long while your old brigade, then 
numbering less than a full regiment, fought an 
army, and held the ground until the rest of 
General Longstreet's Corps came to your relief. 
Of the 811 who went into that fight, 565 were 
either killed or wounded. The artist with that 
sagacity of his profession, has seized on this 
scene, the brightest in all the drama, to illus- 
trate both the valor and prowess of the soldier, 
and his devotion and attachment to his com- 
mander. 

The battles mentioned are but a few of the 
hundred fought by that grand old army of 
■which you were a part, and on every field of 
which your conduct was such as commanded 
the respect and admiration of both friend and 
foe. 

Soldiers such as you have been must neces- 
sarily have formed ties too strong and sacred to 
be wholly severed while opportunities are ex- 
tended to clasp each other's hands and spend a 
social hour together. The men and women of 



Huntsville and vicinity are proud to do you 
honor, and on their behalf I am instructed to 
say thrice welcome to the Old Brigade. 



Judge Randolph was followed by Major T. 
J. Goree, who read the following poem by Mrs. 
M. J. Young, of Houston, "Mother of Hood's 
Texas Brigade": 



TO hood's brigade — THIS DAY AND THAT. 

Part I. 

Today the reaper's sickle 

Is thrust in the bearded grain, 

And the "Bob White's" merry whistle 
Mocks the boy on the loaded wain. 

That day the awful reaper 

Was iron-visaged death. 
And the hymn of a struggling nation 

Was sung with expiring breath. 

Today in a thousand homesteads. 
This thought fills every breast, 

"The wicked cease from troubling, 
And the weary are at rest." 

That day, the thundering cannon, 
The crash, the smoke, the war, 

Fell from the cliffs of Gettysburg 
To the Atlantic's trembling shore. 

Then stood as firm as the mountains, 
The men of Hood's Brigade; 

And closed the gaps in the column 
By shell and sabre made. 

Down like a rushing torrent. 
They swept with cheer and yell. 

To where the black-mouthed cannon 
Were doing the work of hell. 

Panting up the hillside, 

With gleaming bayonet set, 
Shouting the watchword of Southland, 

"We neither forgive nor forget." 

Today centennial banners 

Wave over Boston Bay, 
And the hymn of a nation's glory 

7s sung by the Blue and the Grog. 

Peace rests on our mighty rivers; 

Sings in the whirling mill ; 
Smiles from the door of the homestead; 

Dances on the sunny hill. 



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Laughs in the locomotive; 

Sighs with a sweet content 
Among the purple vineyards, 

And orchard boughs down-bent. 

Walks where the dead are resting. 
And with flowers of every hue, 

Lays a wreath immortal 

On the graves of the Gray and the Blue. 

Part II. 

NOW AND FOREVER. 

But by yon starry heaven 

We joy with a patriot's pride ! 

Not for naught was so much given, 
Not for naught our brave boys died. 

Justice, the saintly maiden. 

Has come from among the stars. 

And is working the task that Themis 
Gave to the great god Mars. 

And this is why our joyance. 

Is to such music set; 
We alter the watchword of Southland, 

Forgive, but don't forget. 

Forget! no, by yon cloudless ether 
That shows us the God of Day! 

That night must have no ending, 
WTien we forget the Gray. 

Thank God, the bands of the wicked 
Are broke by the leal and the true. 

And joy pours her benediction. 

On the land of the G-ray and the Blue. 



MISS HUNT'S POEM. 

The earnest and graceful poem composed for 
the occasion by Miss Mary F. Hunt, an occa- 
sional contributor to the News, will be read 
with interest and prized by all members of 
the brigade, whether they were present and 
heard it or not; but its merits will possess a 
charm for the general reader : 

Ere ruin placed her vulture hold 

Upon our nation's heart, 
Or Freedom's dirge was sung and told 

Through every worldly mart, 
A soldier band one autumn day, 

To battle's wild refrain. 
In rank and file of faded gray 

Marched out from Dumfries' plain. 

And strewed the land with mighty deeds, 

That burst from every field 
As swiftly as the summer seeds 

With Valor's harvest yield; 



And stood where hero legions swayed. 

While fierce foes onward came, 
'Till battle fires of Hood's Brigade 

Were signal lights of Fame. 

The drum is still on Malvern Hill, 

The breath of battle spent, 
^\^le^e Suffolk lays, her greenest bays. 

On Turner's silent tent; 
Where Upton's life-blood rushed to swell 

Manassas crimson tide, 
And every banner-bearer fell 

And gallant Whaley died. 

And Gregg, the noble and the great. 

The Bayard of the slain. 
Passed through the open glory gate 

Of one fierce conflict plain. 
But to our hearts tliey cannot die — 

These fateful days of yore, 
Wliose carnage lights flash wild and high 

Along the distant shore. 

They can not die while Mem'ry lives 

Her sacred watch to keep 
Above the graves where valor gives 

Her martyr'd children sleep; 
While deathful groans from Fred'ricksburg 

Re-echo through the past. 
And Knoxville and the Wilderness 

Still hear the cannon blast. 

They can not die while Gettysburg 

Lifts up her scarlet plains. 
Or battle cries of Hood's Brigade 

Resound from bloody Gaines. 
There in War's vintage time of wrath 

You walked the wine-press red, 
Till every narrow purple path 

Was heavy with your dead. 

And here I pause, where Southland grieves 

Within that battle's gloom, 
To hang a wreath of laurel leaves 

Upon a soldier's tomb. 
Kentucky ranks his knightly race 

Among her noblest brave. 
And when she mourns her honored dead 

She weeps by Marshall's grave. 

Along that road of dreadful years 

Of woe and pall and gloom — 
That road so full of Rachel's tears. 

So full of freedom's doom. 
You saw above war's altar way 

Your Silver Star ashine. 
And placed your dead each fearful day 

Upon that reeking shrine. 



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oil chrismal oil of sacrifice ! 

Oh blood of heroes slain ! 
Poured out by war's uulioly priests 

On war's unholy fane ! 
Time cannot hide your crimson drops 

With his concealing balms, 
Though Hope may blossom where you fell, 

And Peace may wave her palms! 

What if the ways are white with bloom. 

And flushed with rosy dawns — 
Can sunlight lift from Calvary 

The weight of cross and thorns? 
What if a rainbow spans the sky 

And deluge birds come back — 
Can we forget the doves we lost 

'Wlien flood and storm were black? 

Can we forget that ending day, 

Wlien clash of arms did cease, 
And passion overbalanced law, 

And nations called it peace ? 
Peace ! Peace, when every way was red 

With drops of battle rain, 
And mourners for the sacred dead 

Were bound with victors' chain! 

Peace ! when our land was desolate 

Of all that made it fair. 
And Hope by Davis' prison grate 

Grew dumb in her despair? 
They called it peace — that Xorthern band, 

Who came with vengeful law, 
And over all our helpless land 

Strewed aftermath of war. 

We called it death — our nation's death. 

And by her bloody grave 
We drank the dregs of Marah's cup 

That Gentile victors gave. 
But now, when Time has bridged the gulf — 

The chasm filled with gore. 
That stretched its cruel crimson length 

Along our Southern shore. 

Those victors reach their bloody hands 

Across that path of pain. 
And tell us with Iscariot lips 

They sorrow for our slain. 
They prate of love and friendship true 

Who gave our darkest hour — 
They only wish our strengthened hand 

To lift them into power. 

Once when a battle fiercely raged, 

A chieftain called for aid, 
And quickly from the war-worn ranks 

They sent him Hood's Brigade; 
And one rode out before the band — 

The noblest hero there — 
To lead the charge with eager hand. 

Where others feared to dare. 



"Go back ! Go back !" the soldiers cried, 

"We'll win the passage here," 
And Kerr rushed to the charger's side 

And forced him to the rear. 
While through the battle's awful blare 

You filled the ghastly breach 
That shell and shot had opened there 

In many a gory reach. 

Today that chieftain lies at rest 

Beneath Virginia's sod, 
Death bore from out life's battle front 

His saintly soul to God. 
But you are left a place to keep 

With sword of suffrage free; 
Now, at your country's Wilderness, 

Redeem your pledge to Lee! 

Fill every breach with men of truth. 

Who will not fear to go 
Where Honor is the signal light. 

However fierce the foe. 
Your valiant deeds along the past 

Have made your Texas great. 
And down the distant years to come 

Will light this fair young State. 

You kept aloft her battle flags 

When others fain would yield. 
And bore them on their shattered staffs 

From every crimson field. 
Now wrap her in their sacred folds. 

From storm and tempest wild. 
And keep her pure from vandal touch. 

Our Southland's youngest child ! 



MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY REV. DR. 
MITCHELL. 

The memorial address, which was the event 
of the day, was then delivered by Eev. Dr. 
Mitchell. He said: 

Soldiers of Hood's Brigade: 

Fellow Soldiers — Ten long, weary years and 
more have passed since you, who never turned 
your back to the enemy in the day of battle, 
stacked your arms in the presence of a victo- 
rious foe. Having done all that manhood, pa- 
triotism, valor could do for the cause which 
was a thousand times dearer to you than life 
itself, at the bidding of him who was worthy 
to bo your chief, and whose name occupies the 
proudest place in the galaxy of fame; at the 
bidding of Robert E. Lee, the immortal, you 
proudly stacked your arms upon a field which 
you had covered with imperishable glory. Your 
decimated ranks, from which so many of your 
comrades had gloriously fallen on a hundred 



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battlefields, in the fearful campaigns of a four 
years' war, stood, on that sad day of surrender, 
the proudest spectacle, in human view, that the 
world has ever beheld. Your country in the es- 
timation of your hearts, and the hearts of mil- 
lions whom you loved, was gone, passed into 
the hands and under the control of your con- 
querors. The cause, the idol of your heirts, 
for which you had a passion deep as the depths 
of your nature, the cause of human liberty un- 
der constitutional guarantees, such as the 
Southron by descent, by habit of life and by 
cultivated sentiment, was pre-eminently fitted 
to nurture, defend and maintain, was lost, and 
lost forever, or until you and your brethren, 
again restored to place and power, should be 
permitted, by the more peaceful influences of 
the forum and the ballot box, to become the 
custodians of the grand principles for which 
your Eevolutionary sires had fought, and which 
you, attempting by force of arms, fc) 
maintain, had, if not absolutely and 
forever, at least for the present, lost. 
Your comrades who had gone with you to the 
front to conquer or to die, had, m^'st of them, 
gone to the camping ground "on the other side 
of the river." Zollicoffer, Sidney Johnston, 
Polk, Jackson, and "a multitude that no man 
could number" of the purest patriots and the 
noblest heroes that the world had ever beheld, 
were sleeping "the sleep that knows no waking," 
or camping on the plains of immortality, while 
the hearts of all the people were broken aud 
bleeding. On that sad day, while all was thu^ 
environed, you, with the fragment of the noble 
Army of the Potomac about you, obeying the 
command of him whose orders you had never 
disobeyed, with an eye undimmed and a heart 
unmoved, proudly yielded the field to the fo?. 
No tinge of shame suffused your cheek, no 
craven spirit caused your head to bow ; but, 
with an eagle eye and a heart of steel, and lofty 
will, you stood in the presence of your conquer- 
ors, the admiration of the world, "the nob'est 
Eomans of them all." The cause which you de- 
fended had ne'er been tarnished in your hands. 
Nor has it failed on your account. The flag you 
bore had never trailed. Pierced, torn, covered 
with dust and blood, you had with a Spartan, 
or what is more, a Texan courage, bravely borne 
it on the fields of Yorktown and Eltham Land- 
ing, of the Seven Pines and Gaines' Mill, and 
Malvern Hill, and Hazle River, of the second 
Manassas, and South Mountain and Sharps- 
burg, of Fredericksburg and Suffolk, and Get- 
tysburg, of Knoxville, and Chifkamauga of the 
Wilderness, and Spottsylvania, and Cold Har- 
bor, of Eussell's Mill, and New Market, and 
Petersburg and Richmond, and many others 



less known to fame, but not less hard fought 
fields, you had borne that honored, much loved 
flag, and when you furled it you knew, and your 
country knew, and none knew better than the 
foeman, that those who bore it had done a sol- 
dier's duty. Wlien you surrendered, the most 
untutored savage might have known that that 
last soldier act of yours was, like all its prede- 
cessors, an act of honor and good faith. Yours 
was not a mercenary horde of hirelings, nor 
were you drafted for the field. It was when 
the first tocsin was sounded, when Texas was 
only permitted to give three regiments to the 
army of defense, at a double quick you and your 
comrades stepped into the ranks and filled them 
up. Some of your number, fearing lest they 
should be too late to be enrolled in the favored 
companies — traveled by day and by night, on 
horseback and on foot, to reach the place of en- 
listment. Such an one I have now in my eye, 
and perhaps many more are within the sound 
of my voice, who traveled on foot twenty-five 
miles and more, in the dead of night, lest he 
should be too late to join the vanguard of the 
Texas legions. Such zeal, such ardor, such 
will, such high resolve gave promise of the prow- 
ess which was to mark your soldier life. It was 
qualities like these which, brought into action 
and trained, fitted you for the almost super- 
human work which you did under the leader- 
ship of Johnston and Longstreet, and Bragg and 
Jackson and Lee. It was traits like these which 
developed you into such soldiers that you be- 
came comparable to the "Old Guard" of Napo- 
leon, made you the objects of the admiration, 
and subjects of the eulogy of Stonewall Jack- 
son, and it was these which even made you a 
necessity to the great Hero of the Confederate 
war, say, the Hero of the world, Eobert E. Lee, 
at the battle of the Wilderness. 

I pause. It was a new era in the war. The 
fourth and the last act in the tragedy was open- 
ing. The Federal Government, backed by the 
physical force of the world, or so much of it as 
it needed, had sent out an army of more than 
two hundred thousand soldiers, the best armed, 
the best equipped army in the world with the 
best officers in the estimation of its shrewd 
President which the then LTnited States could 
afford. They planted themselves upon Virginia 
soil, and and promptly her devoted, chivalrous 
son led his veterans, only sixty thousand, 
against them. It was a fearful stake, and the 
odds against the just was but too great. But 
liCe was there, and the spirit of Jackson was 
there, and the memory of him inspired the heart 
and nerved the arm of every Southron, and un- 
der its influence they stood like a "Stonewall" 
against those legions of the North. 



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But men were dying all the while, and the 
shattered ranks of Lee were thinning, while for 
every Northman who was cut down two fresh 
men took his place. And Lee began to think of 
the Alamo, and then of Gaines' Mill, and then 
he wondered if Hood's Brigade would not arrive 
in time. It was such a time as when Napoleon 
watclied, and waited, and longed for the arrival 
of Grouchy on the field of Waterloo. 

Grouchy never came, and the star of the 
Corsican — the first Consul — the Emperor Na- 
poleon — set upon the rock of St. Helena. But 
Hood's Brigade arrived, my boys! and with it 
came return of hope to him who, until then, had 
never been so bare of hope. Lee placed himself 
at the head of the brigade, and shouted the 
Texans on to victory. It was a gallant sight, 
it was a noble scene. But look, you ! Every 
man of Hood's Brigade stands still ! And won- 
der and amazement are answered by a shout 
which comes from every man along that line. 
That shout says: "Lee to the rear! We are 
ready to do or die, but thou, the concentrated 
patriotism, and wisdom, and glory of our land, 
thou mayest not go !" Halting, he slowly 
wended his way to the rear, meanwhile waving 
them on, and offering up a pray'er that the God 
of battles would be with them. The tide of the 
battle was soon turned by the "Old Guard'' 
then. But it was a fearful price we paid, even 
for that victory; two out of every three of the 
six hundred men who went into that fight never 
came out again ! 

But the war is over, soldiers of the brigade; 
on our part, at least, the war is over. We have 
indeed sad memories of the past, which we cher- 
ish, and he is but a tyrant, and no friend of 
man or liberty, who would seek to prevent us 
from cherishing those sad memories. 

Our country — our Southern country — is still 
sacred and dear to us. It has not ceased to be 
our home, and the home of all, living or dead, 
that we love. We will rear monuments over the 
graves of our departed heroes. We will pre- 
serve a correct memorial of their noble lives 
and heroic deeds, and teach our children to 
revere them. Posterity will yet do them that 
justice which their living enemies will not give, 
nor permit their friends to give them. If any 
think us unnatural in loving best our own be- 
loved South, we remind them of the language 
of a noble Englishman. When John Adams 
went to England after our independence was 
gained, George the Third jested with him one 
day upon his being under French influence. The 
noble reply of Adams was, "I must avow to 
your Majesty that I have no attachment but to 
my own country." The King answered quick- 
ly, "An honest man will never have any other." 



One day when the great painter, Benjamin 
West, of Pennsylvania, was in the presence of 
the King, in London, some courtiers who were 
jealous of West's influence with the King, spoke 
of a defeat of the Americans, hoping that his 
sorrow thereat would offend the King. West, 
perceiving their object, said frankly to George, 
"I am a loyal and grateful subject to my King, 
but I can never rejoice at any misfortunes 
which befall my native land." The King cor- 
dially replied, "It is a noble sentiment, Mr. 
West; and I assure you that no man will ever 
fall in my estimation because he loves his native 
land." Shall we, then^ be condemned if we 
sympathize with our friends and with our na- 
tive land in their sufferings and misfortunes? 
You do well, therefore, fellow soldiers, in keep- 
ing up this brigade organization, and in labor- 
ing to gather all the facts of its histoi-y, so that 
they may be put upon record for the benefit of 
your country and of posterity. If, when the heat 
of battle is all subsided, men of all sections do 
not seek to share the glory of such deeds as 
were done by the men of Hood's Brigade, then 
human nature, in some of its developments, is 
the vilest thing on the face of the earth, and 
the meanest, and all talk of a real union of the 
sections is a myth and a lie. 

But we are called, fellow-soldiers and fellow- 
citizens, to a high career of duty. This country 
is ours still, and we owe it to ourselves and to 
the world, to shake off, by joint effort with our 
friends of all sections, what remains of political 
tyranny, and material depression, and thus 
make our condition, if possible, as good as it 
was, and if possible, better than it was. De- 
spondency ill suits our condition, and ill be- 
comes the Southern character. I know that we 
have much in the recollections of the past and 
the conditions of the present to depress and em- 
barrass us. 

"But can the noble mind forever brood 

The weary victim of a weary mood? 

On heartless cares that squander life away. 

And cloud young genius brightening into day? 

Shame to the coward thought that e'er betrayed 

The noon of manhood to a mirtle shade !" 

The earth is as generous as it over was. Na- 
ture yields a kind return for human effort; and 
human nature is as capable of high achieve- 
ments as it ever was. Not only do our patriot 
sires who fought and gained our liberties a hun- 
dred years ago, tell us to take care of the legacy 
which tliey bequeathed us, and hand it down to 
our children enhanced, embellished and im- 
proved, but the men of San Jacinto ancf of the 



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Alamo, and the men who have made imperish- 
able the names of "Gaines' Mill," and the 
"Wilderness," and a hundred other fields, speak 
to us through their deeds of mighty valor, and 
bid us work out for ourselves a destiny grand 
as our country, and noble as our sires and our 
fallen heroes. 

"Thy proud lords, unpitied land ! shall see 
That man hath yet a soul — and dare be free ! 
A little while, along thy sadd'ning plains. 
The starless night of desolation reigns; 
Truth shall restore the light by nature given, 
And, like Prometheus, bring the fire of Heaven ! 
Prone to the dust oppression shall be hurled, 
Her name, her nature, withered from the 

world ! 
Yes, in that generous cause forever strong, 
The patriot's virtue and the poet's song. 
Still, as the tide of ages roll away. 
Shall charm the world, unconscious of decay. 
And there are hearts prophetic hope may trust. 
That slumber yet in uncreated dust. 
Ordained to fire the adoring sons of earth 
With every charm of wisdom and of worth ; 
Ordained to light, with intellectual day. 
The mazy wheels of nature as they play; 
Or, warm with nature's energy, to glow. 
And rival all our greatest names below ; 
To pour redress on all our injured realm. 
The oppressor to dethrone, the proud to whelm ; 
To chase destruction from our plundered shore, 
With arms and arts that triumphed once before ! 
Come, Heavenly Powers ! primeval peace re- 
store ! 
Jjove ! Mercy ! Wisdom ! rule forevermore !" 

If man were recreant, and failed to guard 
the soldier's fame, still would this proud duty 
be performed by fairer forms, and gentler lips, 
and lovelier hands. No true soldier ever failed 
to find a friend in woman ; an admiring, idoliz- 
ing friend, who, to honor and to crown him, 
took delight. This crowd of delicate beauty 
and gentle womanhood is here today, fellow-sol- 
diers, to honor you. They come to wreath a 
fresh chaplet for your brows, to impress upon 
your hearts the expression of their appreciation 
of your noble valor and self-sacrificing service 
in their behalf. They tender you their smiles, 
and only less than heavenly benedictions. They 
will bless you, and sing of the fame of your 
glory long as you live upon earth, and when you 
join the encampment of your comrades who are 
gone before, they will wat^r your resting place 
with their tears, and decorate it with flowers 
culled by fairest hands and guarded by fondest 
hearts. 



Following letter from Major Sam C. Timpson 
carried its hearers back to the battle where 
Major Timpson, in command of a Federal bat- 
talion, made intimate acquaintance with the 
prowess of Hood's Texas Brigade, which circum- 
stance possibly helped to make him a valuable 
citizen of Houston directly after the war. P. B. 
Timpson, a wealthy and prominent factor in 
Houston financial circles, is a son of Major 
Timpson. 

LETTER FROM MAJOR TIMPSON, 

Houston, June 26, 1877. 
Robert Burns, Esq., Secretary Hood's Brigade, 
Houston, Texas: 

Dear Sir — I regret exceedingly my inability 
to accept the kind invitation extended to me to 
participate in the reunion of the survivors of 
Hood's gallant Brigade at Waco, on the 27th in- 
stant, but fully appreciate and am thankful for 
the compliment paid me. Pushing business en- 
gagements compel my presence in Houston, and 
I am therefore denied a pleasure which none but 
those who were in active service during the late 
war can fully and completely realize — that of 
meeting with those who, whether they wore the 
gray or the blue, whether comrades or oppo- 
nents, can, now that peace spreads her white 
wings over our common country, extend cordial 
greetings, talk over the scenes of the past, and 
rejoice together that Federal and Confederate 
are vieing with each other in promoting the wel- 
fare and prosperity of this great nation. 

It is in no spirit of disparagement to any 
other command on either side during the late 
war, that I most heartily bear testimony to the 
gallant achievements of Hood's Brigade. The 
reputation gained by it was due solely to the fact 
that it was always ready and eager to do the 
hard work which fell to its lot to perform 
upon the battlefield, and never failed when 
called upon. The best evidence of this fact is 
the testimony of those who met your command 
on many a hotly and well contested field, for it 
was a common saying in the army of the Po- 
tomac, among the veterans, that Longstreet's 
Corps was like Napoleon's grenadiers — always 
on hand, and always to be depended on. More 
than once during the continuance of the war, 
and prominently the Wilderness did the 
promptness of Hood's Brigade turn the tide of 
battle. The testimony of the troops that were 
pushing Lee at the time show how gallantly and 
successfully the Texas Brigade and the balance 
of Longstreet's Corps fought and how they 
saved the day. 

It affords me a sincere pleasure to bear tes- 
timony to the valor of this splendid corps, and 



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I rejoice that the opportunity has been afforded 
me to do so, in making this acknowledgment of 
your kind invitation. I have said sufficient to 
show in what esteem Hood's Brigade was held 
by those upon the Federal side, and in doing so 
have performed nothing but a duty. 

I herewith enclose the remnant of the colors 
of a regiment that met Hood's Brigade on some 
of the hardest contested battlefields during the 
war. It was carried by the right general guide 
of the Ninety-fifth Regiment, New York State 
Volunteers, First Brigade, First Division, 
First Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. It 
was carried with the regiment through the fol- 
lowing engagements : Cedar Mountain. Rappa- 
hannock Station, 'UTiite Sulphur Springs, 
Gainesville, Groveton, Manassas, South iloun- 
tain, Antietam, Upperville, Union, Ashby's 
Gap, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys- 
burg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, 
Cold Harbor, Five Forks, and other battles 
around Richmond. At Sharpsburg it was used 
to rally the right wing of the regiment ; w;is 
planted in a cornfield on the Federal ri'ght and 
opposite the Confederate left, which, as far as 
can be ascertained from the testimony of par- 



.licipants, was the position held by Hood's 
Brigade, and as the cornfield was taken and re- 
taken several times during the progress of the 
battle, it is not unreasonable to assume that the 
two flags were not far apart during this part 
of the engagement. 

I trust your reunion for 1877 will have a 
large attendance and prove a pleasant and 
agreeable affair for those who are fortunate 
enough to be able to attend. 

With my best wishes, and long life and pros- 
perity to the survivors of Hood's Brigade, and 
a tear to the memory of those who sleep on 
"Fame's eternal camping ground," I remain, 
Yours truly, 

Saji C. Timpson. 

When tlie tattered remnant of the Ninety- 
fifth New York Regiment, sent up by Major 
Timpson, was exhibited, it was greeted with 
the wildest cheers by the Association, and when 
it was announced that regiment had lost thir- 
teen color bearers at Sharpsburg or Antietam, 
as the Federal army named the battle, the reg- 
iment was cheered again and again for its gal- 
lantry. 



LIVINGSTON REUNION. 



Royally Welcomed. Hon. Jas. E. Hill's Address to the Veterans. Polk County's Greeting 
to the Veterans of Hood's Brigade. Deeds of Valor and Patriotism Recalled. 



Livingston, Texas, June 28. — Following is 
the speech of Hon. James E. Hill in welcoming 
the veterans of Hood's Texas Brigade : 

Veterans of Hood's Texas Brigade and Con- 
federate and Federal Soldiers: On behalf of 
the citizens of Livingston, I extend to you for 
them a most hearty welcome. There is no body 
of men nearer or dearer to our hearts than the 
survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade. Your 
name will carry }'0u to any hearthstone in Polk 
County, and there you will be received as an 
honored guest. The Confederate dead of tl-eir 
country lay beneath the sod on the battlefields 
of the Confederacy, from the craggy field of 
Gettysburg to the arid plains of Val Verde, and 
from the plains of Kentucky to the blue Atlan- 
tic and the rolling waves of the Southern gulf ; 
and wherever they sleep they rest in the graves 
of heroes, covered with honor as proud and as 
bright as was ever won by a soldier or a pa- 
triot. You are among the fathers, mothers, 
brothers, sisters and kindreds of these dead he- 
roes today, and in the name of the living and 



the dead, we thrice welcome you, for in honor- 
ing you we keep green the memory of our 
loved ones who fell by your side on every bat- 
tlefield you fought. The proudest record of 
Polk County is the glorj' achieved in arms by 
her honored dead, and by Hood's Texas Brig- 
ade, for in that body of heroes are numbered 
Company B, First Regiment, and Companies 
H and K, Fifth Regiment, from this county, 
a counby who furnished in three years more 
Confederate soldiers than she had votes. Yes, I 
say "proud record," for time will be no more 
when the name and prowess in arms of Hood's 
Texas Brigade is forgotten. So long as liberty, 
honor, love of country, patriotism and heroic 
deeds of the brave and the good are cherished 
as a virtue, so long will your names live as 
bright letters in histor\-'s page. From the ear- 
liest dawn of civilization down along the cor- 
ridors of time to this day, no body of soldiers 
in any clime or age have ever excelled you in 
valor and in military prowess. The tenth 
legion of C'jesar, the old guard of Napoleon and 



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Hood's Texas Brigade will ever after be cited as 
examples of the bravest of the brave. Napoleon 
said, whenever he saw the white plume of the 
intrepid leader of the old guard waiving, he 
knew that victory was perching on his eagle?. 
So the great Lee, when all else had failed and 
defeat seemed certain, called for Hood's Texas 
Brigade, and when they charged they carried 
the death rattle to the throats of the foe an.l 
planted the stars and bars on the enemy's ram- 
parts. At Gaines' Mill, when charge after 
charge of brave and tried soldiers had failed to 
reach the enemies' guns, Hood came on the field 
with the Texas Brigade. Lee asked if he could 
break the enemies' line. The prompt reply, ''I 
will try," was enough. You charged bayonets 
with your great leader at your head, and thougli 
one-half of the Fourth Texas fell dead or 
wounded on the field, no halt was made until 
the guns were captured and turned on the rout- 
ed foe, who were so completely demoralize 1 
that an entire regiment surrendered bodily to 
the Fifth Texas. History records no more dead- 
ly charge and heroic deed in arms. The cry of 
the Federal gunner, "You must be devils," 
shows the panic you carried to the enemies' 
hearts. At the Wilderness, when all seemed 
lost, Lee called for Hood's Texas Brigade, an 1 
when he placed himself at your head to load 
you in the charge, that act alone would have 
rendered your names immortal. But when you 
cried, "Lee to the rear, we will rout the foe." 
then was enacted one of the brightest pages of 



history in the annals of time. The devotion to 
your great leader, the bravery and determina- 
tion then displayed in that charge, whereby 
victory was won out of defeat, wreathed your 
brows in chaplets of eternal fame. 

When Captain Ike Turner bid us farewell on 
receiving the stars and bars from the hands of 
a fair damsel of Polk County, he waved his cap 
at the girls that gathered around him and said, 
"When I return I will bring each of j'ou a 
hero." That bravest of our brave fell by the 
enemy's guns, but true to his promise his sol- 
diers that survied the enemy's bullets returned 
home heroes. Our other two gallant companies, 
B, First Eegiment, and H, Fifth Regiment, 
were equal in heroic deeds to Company K and 
the gallant and lamented Captain Turner. We 
welcome to our hearths and our homes, and as 
to our brave Confederate dead, with ever}- pul- 
sation of our hearts say : 

Here sleep the brave who sink to rest, 
With all their country's wishes blessed. 
When Spring with dewy fingers cold. 
Returns to deck their hallow'd mould. 
She there shall dress a sweeter sod 
Than fairy's feet have ever trod. 

By fairy hands their knell is rung; 
By forms unseen their dirge is sung. 
There honor comes, a pilgrim gray. 
To bless the turf that wraps their clay, 
And freedom shall awhile repair. 
To dv.-ell, a weeping hermit, there. 



GEN. JOHN B. HOOD AT WACO REUNION, 

JUNE 27, 1877. 



After dinner was over and the band had 
played a few airs, the audience again assembled 
and General Robertson introduced 

GENERAL HOOD. 

He said that he had hardly hoped to be pres- 
ent at this reunion of his old comrades, but 
business that was as urgent in its force with 
him now as he had sometimes been with them 
had brought him to Texa.s, and he remainel to 
meet them on this occasion. Everywhere he 
had met with that familiar and hearty gi'asp of 
the hand he had felt in the days gone by, and 
that it was so cordial and true that it took him 
back to the days of his boyhood, when he was at 
West Point, and had gone to meet his mother 
and brothers. His fondness for his comrades 
and love for them was greater than for all 
things on earth save his family, and his meeting 



with them stirred up the deepest fountains of 
his heart in pleasurable emotions. He had a 
few words to say to them concerning the fights 
he had gone through with them, and while he 
would say much that was perfectly familiar to 
them, he would say some things they never be- 
fore knew concerning his orders and the cir- 
cumstances surrounding him on the different 
occasions, to which he would allude. The first 
at which they had become 

ACQUAINTED WITH 'THE ENEMY 

was at Eltham's Landing. True, in that fight 
they were only engaged with the skirmish line, 
but it was their first baptism of fire, the place 
where he first knew them and they him. At 
Gaines' Mill they first felt the keen edge of bat- 
tle. This was not only one of the grandest bat- 
tles of the revolution, but the first struggle in 



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which they had partaken. He had rode up to 
General Lee and that officer had said to him, 
"General Hood, the enemy are liere and we 
have not broken their lines ; I want them off the 
field." He replied that he believed if any 
troops could do it his brigade could. He then 
moved his brigade forward, and soon they were 
under fire. In emerging from the woods the 
Fourth Eegimcnt struck an open, bald field, 
through which they had to charge. He deter- 
mined to go with his old regiment and drive 
the enemy from their guns in front of them. 
On through the field they swept, and before they 
had gotten in five hundred yards of the enemy 
Colonel Marsliall and Lieutenant Colonel 
Warwick had fallen never to rise again. 
As they rushed down the hillside across 
tJie ravine and to the hilltop beyond, he gave 
the command to "fix bayonets." They received 
the order with a yell and a more impetuous 
rush forward. On they went until the ditch 
and breastworks and first guns were carried. 
Here the regiment took the bit in their teeth 
and forced themselves ahead, capturing and 
driving everything before them. 

The Fourth Texas Eegiment never satiated 
their appetites in this conflict until they had 
taken battery after battery and demolished line 
after line, until they had fourteen guns. The 
battle of Manassas always brought to his mind 
the gallant Upton and the Fifth Texas. Here 
he paid a glowing tribute to the gallanti-}- and 
qualities of the lamented Upton as a soldier. 
And in the same connection took occasion to al- 
lude to General Logan, the orator of the day, 
characteriing him as an able, energetic, brave 
and dashing officer, one who won his spurs by 
gallant fighting as well as by ability. 

AT SECOND MANASSAS 

the Fifth Texas took the reins in their hands, 
and fighting faster than he could keep up with 
them, had strewn the field with red breeches 
(Zouaves), and were crowding fast into the 
very vitals of the enemy. At Second Manas- 
sas General Longstreet's orders to him were to 



move on the enemy slowly, and he would send 
other brigades along to assist him, but the Fifth 
Texas never gave any other brigade a chance to 
come up. 

AT SHAEPSBDRG 

the First Eegiment concluded to fight on its 
own hook, as it were. Here they went into the 
fight with 2G0 men, whipping and driving 
everything they found in advance of the other 
regiments, coming out with forty men. With 
each of these fights were associated these par- 
ticular regiments. 

AT CHICAMAUGA. 

On Saturday he commanded the right wing 
of the army, but on Sunday morning the gal- 
lant Longstreet took command, and he was 
given command of five divisions. When he fell 
from his horse wounded in that terrible fight it 
was his fortune to fall into the arms of his old 
brigade and by them to be borne from the field. 
Could anyone wonder then, after having shared 
together such perils and privations, that their 
hearts were knit together as with great hooks 
of steel? Eeverting again to Gaines' Mill, of 
which battle this was the fifteenth anniversary, 
on the same anniversary eight years ago Go 1 had 
blessed him with two sweet little daughters. 
The General then drew a beautiful simile of 
flowers as illustrative of his love for his old 
command. He then drew a comparison of the 
past and present since the war, and said he was 

NOW HOPEFUL 

and buoyant for the future, but had only be- 
come so within the past six months. Prior to 
then he couldn't get the devil out of him, but 
now all looks brilliant before him. Through 
the wisdom of the President, Louisiana and 
South Carolina were able once more to assume 
their stations as sovereign States. They were 
again free and prosperity was dawning upon 
them. He then thanked his comrades for meet- 
ing him, and thanked the people of Waco for 
the magnificent welcome accorded him. 



REUNION AT BRENHAM, JUNE 22, 1881. 



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After an opening piece by the band. Doctor 
Chaplin led in a fervent appeal to the throne of 
grace, the burden of which was that the time 
might speedily come when the men of the South 
should be understood by their brethren of the 
North, when Ihey should be seen as they are, 
and when all the scars of the late terrible strife 



should be healed. An impromptu glee club 
sung most artistically. 

Colonel D. C. Giddings then came to the 
front and was received with loud applause. He 
welcomed the brigade in the name of the people 
of Washington County. He said: 

We felt honored by your presence, and would 
we be if we were not ready to extend to you 



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237 



that welcome which your conduct so richly 
merits at the hands of the people of Texas ? We 
welcome you, too, because your presence will 
tend to dissipate the error that the reunion of 
the two armies will tend to keep alive the ani- 
mosities of the late war. Had the matters at 
issue in that war been left to a vote of the sol- 
diers of the two parties, or even of the Union 
armies, a peaceful solution would have fol- 
lowed and bloodshed would have been saved. 
(Applause.) Success is the measure of merit. 
Had you been successful, the world would have 
rang with peans to your praise. But as you 
fought in a lost cause, we of the South claim 
the right to pay you tribute. (Applause.) All 
honor to the men who fell on both sides, 
whether they wore the blue or the grey. Their 
blood and their ashes mingle in the same soil, 
and together have nourished the beauteous 
flowers that grew on their mounds. Why not 
the surviors do likewise, and forget sectional 
passion and hatred ? Many of the soldiers on 
the other side are willing to forget and forgive 
(applause), and I am sure that we shall not be 
laggard. 

Washington County welcomes to her borders 
the soldiers of the lost cause, and just as warm- 
ly welcomes the honest soldiers of the Union. 

Again, on behalf of our people, I welcome 
you to our town, our county, our houses, our 
home circles and our hearts. (Loud applause.) 

Judge John N. Henderson, of Bryan, on be- 
half of the brigade, responded as follows : 

Address of Judge John N. Henderson. 

Fellow-citizens, ladies and gentlemen, and 
comrades of Hood's Texas Brigade: The duty 
has been confided to me, by the committee, of 
responding on the part of the brigade to the 
welcome which has been extended to us by the 
people of this community through the eloquent 
remarks of the gentleman who has just ad- 
dressed us. I should have preferred that the 
mantle on this occasion should have fallen upon 
worthier shoulders than mine, but, inadequate 
as are my own powers, I feel it a pleasing task 
to return, however feebly, our gratitude for this 
splendid ovation. But who would have expect- 
ed less from the people of old Washington 
County, from whence went forth to the battle' 
fields of Virginia two of the thirty-two compa- 
nies which composed Hood's Texas Brigade? 
(Cheers.) 

We have met again, fellow soldiers, after an 
interval of a year. As is our custom, we have 
come together from every portion of our beau- 
tiful State, to hold our annual reunion. For 
the time being, the busy cares of life are forgot ; 
the farmer has left his plow; the mechanic his 



shop; the merchant his store; the stockman his 
ranch; the lawyer and physician his offiice, and 
the remnant of Hood's Texas Brigade have as- 
sembled together. May I inquire for what pur- 
pose are we here ? I know it has been said that 
the object of these organizations is to foster 
and keep alive the animosities of the late war. 
By others it has been charged that they have 
a political significance; but I undertake to say 
that the accusation is utterly without founda- 
tion, and it is with pride that I appeal to the 
records of our own brigade reunions to refute 
the charge, with reference to ourselves. (Ap- 
plause. ) 

No, comrades, we are met for a nobler pur- 
pose. We have assembled together in social re- 
union, and our hearts go out to one another 
over the sacred recollections of the past. Though 
we are soldiers of a lost cause, we feel that we 
suffered no dishonor in defeat, and we are here 
for the purpose of renewing and cementing 
afresh ties that were welded amid scenes that 
tried men's souls. And today, where we now 
stand, the mystic chords of memory are touched 
and we look back across the lapse of near twenty 
years, and recall our share of the events of that 
sanguinary drama which drenched this land 
with fraternal blood. 

It is unnecessary on this occasion that I 
should do more than allude to the career of the 
Texas Brigade in Virginia, for you, my coun- 
trymen, are familiar with its achievements. 
There was scarcely a battle of importance 
fought from Eltham's Landing to Appomat- 
tox, in which it was not engaged, and in some 
it bore a prominent part. 

At Eltham's Landing it successfully aided in 
covering the flank of our army on its retreat 
from Yorktown; and such was the bravery of 
the First Texas Eegiment on that occasion, that 
General Smith, the division commander, said 
of it that, "had he forty thousand such men 
he would undertake a successful invasion of the 
North." 

Again, at Gaines' Farm, the brigade acted no 
mean part in securing that glorious victory, and 
the Fourth Texas, by its deeds of daring valor, 
covers itself with immortal renown. 

At Manassas the command was again con- 
spicuous, and by their gallantry did much to 
achieve that splendid success. The lamented 
Hood said of the conduct of the Fifth Eegiment 
on that field, that "it slipped the bridle, broke 
through three lines of battle, and penetrated to 
the very heart of the enemy." (Prolonged ap- 
plause.) 

And at Sharpsburg, too, throughout that ter- 
rible day which has been characterized as the 
fiercest struggle of the war, the Texas Brigade 



fought with desperate valor, and against fearful 

'^ And at Gettysburg and on other fields they 
received honorable mention. _ 

But if there were no other page in the batt e 
history of that brigade than the ^\llderness it 
wonkl stand alone as a sufficient monument o 
The leroism and valor of that little band ot 
Texans The passage of the bridge at Looi b>- 
Napoleon was a grand scene ; the assault o t Mc- 
Donald at Wagram, with '^^V;^ h«ri of the 
was a sublime spectacle; and the chaige of the 
light brigade at Balaklava, since made immor 
al by the poet's pen; these all mark epochs o 
he courage of men on the field of battle, but to 
my mind the charge of the Texas Brigade at the 
SlSness under the eye of the immorta Lee 
ids without a parallel in the annals ow^r^ 
Those were trained soldiery, and moved to the 
onslaught like a piece of --hmery, driven to 
their duty by the stern rules of ^^i^"! line. 
These moved to the charge, in the face of over- 
whelming odds, and against a victorious enemy 
Ihey changed with the coolness of veterans, but 
not more nerved by discipline than by the fire, 
of patriotism which burned m the bosom of 
each citizen soldier, and which determined hiin 
to do or die in a cause which he deemed pst 
and holy. 

"Musketry to right of them, 
Musketry to left of them, 
Musketry in front of them, 
Volleyed and thundered. 
Stormed at with shot and shell. 
Boldly they charged, and well. 

Into the jaws of death, 
Into the mouth of hell." 



I 



Though no sculptured marble rears alof Is 
spotless shaft to tell to the stranger that the.e 
Jo fell at Thermopyte"; though no paternal 
government stretches forth its Fotectmg arms 
to raise a splendid mausoleum to the fallen 
CoSederate heroes of th<^. Wilderness, y^et^ the. 
deeds of valor are enshrined in the hearts of 
Er conntrymen, and in the he-^s of the a - 
mirer« of true courage and manhood through 
out the world; and, in the urn of l^^tory th 
bri'ditcst page will be reserved, m which their 
memories will be embalmed, and will go sound- 
ing down the ages to the remotest tirne. 

Suffice it that this little band of Texans, sur- 
rounded as they were by tl^e m°st extraordinary 
circumstances, felt and realized that Texas had 
committed to their care and keeping her iair 
fame and her sacred honor. They were inspired 
bv the deeds of the illustrious heroes of the 
Alamo, of Goliad, and of San Jacinto, and they 



determined to bear aloft the honor of their na- 
tive State upon the points of their bayonets, to 
victory or death. It was no ignoble task to 
earn a place in the annals of the army of North- 
ern Virginia; and Texas need not feel ashamed 
of the deeds of those, her children, written in 
letters of blood upon almost every battlefield 
of Vir<Tinia. No history will ever record, that 
in the hour of danger these men ever proved 
recreant to the trust confided to them, or that, 
in the shock of battle, they ever turned their 
backs upon the enemy. 

«^¥^lereve^ death's brief pang was quickest, 
Where the battle's wreck lay thickest,^^ 
There, be sure, would they be charging. 

There many of them, alas will never charge 
a<rain How many of them sleep their last sleep 
on the soil of the Old Dominion, their bones 
bleaching on the battlefields of that classic 
land! 

"On fame's eternal camping ground. 
Their silent tents are spread ; 
While glory guards, with solemn round. 
The bivouac of the dead." 

Denny and Black fell at Eltham's Landing; 
Eyan and Marshall offered up their lives at 
Gaines' Farm; the soil of the Rapp:ibannock 
drank up the blood of the gallant Whaley ; the 
bold spirit of the chivalric Upton went forth to 
meet the god of battle from the plams of 
Manassas, and, as he would have chosen, whde 
the shout of victory was yet ringing in us eajs. 
Greg'' too, the Chevalier Bayard of the brig- 
ade, poured out his heart's blood in a skirmish 
in front of Richmond, though he had often 
courted death upon nobler fields; while Turner, 
the faithful soldier, is quietly sleeping under 
the ^een sod at Suffolk. Others of equal valor 
courage and devotion, if not of equal fame, rest 
in nameless graves, awaiting that resurrection 
mom which shall call all true soldiers to duty 

And let us, the survivors of that noble band, 
emulate their example in the battle of life which 
i. before us. It only remains, ladies and gen- 
tlemen, that I again thank you on the part of 
the brigade for these evidences of your hospital- 
ity- 

"Dixie" by the band was loudly encored, and 
General T N. Waul was introduced as the ora- 
tor of the day. He spoke substantially as fol- 

"^^llow Citizens— We have met with the cit- 
izens of Washington County today to honor 
Hood's Brigade, because they brought honor to 
Texas We honor them because, first ere the 



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239 



sun of the Confederacy had risen, they went 
forth to the call and followed the bright lumin- 
jiry from its earl}' rising to its L'loorjiy setlii'iu 
at Appomattox. Our hearts rejoice with you 
now as formerly they swelled when we read of 
vour deeds and your valor from Eltham's Land- 
ing — Sharpsburg — Chicamauga and so on to 
the end. We have followed you, step by step, 
ever onward and upwards, until you were ac- 
corded the highest honors and the highest posts 
of a soldier. The advance guard in every at- 
tack, the rear guard in every retreat. (Ap- 
plause.) 

The war was ended, and you were restored 
to your homes. (The speaker here paid a glow- 
ing tribute to the word home and its meaning 
—the Southern home included, he said, all this 
and more.) Firm, high resolve was stamped on 
the countenances of your matrons. In her cham- 
ber, your wife, with bowed head, wrote you 
words of hope, when all around her was dark as 
night lest she should unnerve your arm by tell- 
ing the truth. Every Southern home became 
a factory. The music of the piano was ban- 
ished and the hum of the spinning wheel took 
its place. Fans were supplanted by cards, and 
supplies were sent, not alone to the Southern 
soldier. Every soldier was their brother, and 
all were partially supplied. Mothers sent their 
boys from school, not as substitutes for their 
fallen fathers, but as recruits in the struggling 
army. Ah, you had the courage of soldiers, but 
your wives at home had the courage of martyrs. 
(Applause.) 

It was a just sentiment that inspired our peo- 
ple and all that our enemies have done to cast 
reproach upon us has failed and your presence 
here shows that you do not heed the odium. 

(He pictured the dark scenes in the South 
that followed the close of the war, when the 
carpet-baggers swallowed all that war had left.) 
But this is past. Your patience and endurance 
have won for you another victory, for peace hath 
her victories no less renowned than war. 

He referred to Roman history at the time and 
following the organization of the Italian con- 
federation, with Eome as its central figure, to 
draw both a parallel and a contrast between the 
social strife and its results in the attempt to de- 
stroy that confederation, and the late war be- 
tween the sections of this country and the re- 
sults that followed.) We are presumed to have 
our full rights in the Union. Our duties are to 
be performed with the same fidelity and honesty 
as if the storm of war had never swept over. 
We cannot forget the war; we do not want to 
forget it and he who was a soldier, and pretends 
to forget it, is a hypocrite and a traitor. (Loud 
cheers.) But that does not prevent us from be- 



ing honest citizens. Let us cling to the consti- 
tution with the fervor of true patriotism, never 
forgetting that he is the best citizen who sup- 
ports the party in power. It is our duty to obey 
the law, and, if it is unjust and unwise, secure 
its repeal. This country belongs to us and will 
belong to our children, from Alaska to Flor- 
ida, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. We have 
an interest in all this broad domain. With us 
everything is lofty and broad, and should ele- 
vate the soul of the Texan a^^ l.e lut^ lis foot 0:1 
Texas soil, until he feels the independence of 
the McGreggor— McGreggor when he had his 
foot on his native heath and his eye on Ben 
Lomond. 

(He paid a beautiful tribute to the brave 
men and fair women of Texas.) Coming gen- 
erations have escaped our troubles, but will have 
the benefit of our experience. Would you 
change places with them ? Would you lav your 
burdens on their shoulders? No;" for tliough 
we have lost everything else, we have saved all 
that was worth saving, because we saved our 
honor. (Loud applause. Hurrah!) 

The principal cause of the strife is gone ; it 
can never trouble us more. In all future strife, 
which will be one in political fields, we sliall 
have others with us, and we may thus hope some 
time to bring back this government to its orig- 
inal purpose and original purity. 

(He recounted something of the history of 
the brigade, and drew a warm word-painting of 
the afl'air at James River, which was received 
with enthusiastic applause. (Hurrah!) He 
alluded to the feature at Gettysburg as an ex- 
hibition of another character possessed by the 
brigade, even greater than the heroism shown 
in almost certain victory.) On that occasion 
your brave brigade did not obtain success, but 
you did more — you deserved it. (Cheers.) 
Your records are in the War Department at 
Washington, but (pointing to the battle-scarred 
flag) the flag of our brigade is not there. (As 
the audience took in his meaning, they greeted 
the sentence with most enthusiastic applause.) 

The time may come when those fathers will 
lead the victorious hosts of our united country, 
and when that time shall come, who will there 
be North or South who will not be proud to fol- 
low it to victory, and to cry "make way, make 
way for the flag of the Old Guard." (Tre- 
mendous shouting and applause.) 

MAJOR GENERAL M. W. GARY. 

General M. W. Gary, of South Carolina, was 
one of the bravest llajor-Generals the Confed- 
eracy had, and commanded a corps of as gal- 
lant troops as any army on earth could boast 
of. During the first of the war, Hampton's 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



South Carolina Cavalry Legion was a part of 
Hood's Texas Brigade. When Wade Hampton 
(its Colonel) became a Brigadier-General, 
Gary was made Colonel of the Legion and had 
ample opportunity to judge of Hood's Texas 
Brigade. Later as both Brigadier and Major- 
General, he became — like his chief — convinced 
that there was one brigade that never failed, 
no matter what the circumstances. General Gary 
pays a magnificent com))liment when he vol- 
untarily writes that: "When history is truth- 
fully written Hood's Texas Brigade will stand 
first among the Brigades of the Army of North- 
em Virginia." 

GENERAL GARY'S LETTER. 

Edgefield, C. H., S. C, May 20, 1879. 
Major Robt. Burns, Houston, Texas. 

My Dear Sir: I have just received your let- 
ter inviting me to deliver an address before the 
survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade, at their an- 
nual reunion on July 9th, at Palestine. It gives 
me great pleasure to receive this graceful rem- 
iniscence from the members of Hood's Texas 
Brigade. I was for a long time, as the Colonel 
of the Hampton Legion, a member of this dis- 
tinguished command. I feel proud of the fact 
that my old regiment fought shoulder to shoul- 
der with the gallant sons of Texas through 
many a fierce battle. 

IV/ien, the history of the unr is truthfuUfi 
written, the record of Hood's Texas Brigade ivill 
stand first among the brigades of the Army of 
Northern Virginia. 

I shall ever cherish my associations with 
these brave soldiers as the most pleasant remin- 
iscences of the war. I regret that my time and 
health will not permit me to accept your invi- 
tation. Please tender my sincere regrets to my 
old friends and companions in arms, and my 
best thanks for their distinguished considera- 
tion and courtesy, and assure them of my best 
wishes for their future welfare and prosperity. 

Believe me, very sincerely, your friend, 

M. W. Gary. 

(Gary was one of the most gallant Major- 
Generals in the army. — Burns.) 

Benediction was pronounced by Dr. F. T. 
Mitchell, and the procession was reformed to 
march to the dining hall. 

At the dining hall a most magnificent din- 
ner was spread, and was partaken of with a 
relish. When the proper time came, toasts were 
read by General Sayles as follows: "Our dead 
comrades, their part in all the pomp that fills 
the glory of the Southern rill, is that their 
graves are green." Eesponse by Major J. N. 
Henderson. 

"The Texas veterans, their monument is the 
empire State of Texas, in grandeur surpassing 



the pyramids, and, we hope, destined to out- 
live them." Response by General Robertson. 

"The honest men on both sides of our un- 
happy struggle. They have never lost their self- 
respect nor their respect for each other." Re- 
sponse by Major Plunkett of the Union army. 

"The Terry Rangers." Response by John M. 
Claiborne. 

"Our women — their heroism may have been 
less noisy and demonstrative than the men, but 
purer, perhaps, and certainly not less lofty." 
Response by Major Walsh. 

"The private soldier who got the hard knocks 
and the poor pay, but made an undying reputa- 
tion for his superiors." Response by Governor 
Lubbock. 

"The fire boys; we can all rejoice in their 
victories, for they leave no legacy of empty 
treasuries or bleeding hearts or rankling ani- 
mosities." Response by J. L. Moore. 

"The next war, may it be postponed beyond 
our day." Response by Captain Rogers. 

"The church militant, peace and good vnXl, 
so the fighting parson brings with him the olive 
branch." Response by Dr. Mitchell. 

"The chaplain and the chaplains, may they 
grow in grace and may their shadows never 
grow less." Response by Dr. Chaplin, in which 
he read the poem. 

HOOD'S BRIGADE. 

BY C. C. CHAPLIN, D. D. 

And read by him at their late Reunion in Bren- 
ham, June 22, 1881. 

Of all who fought 'neath Southern Cross, 

None better record ever made. 
Nor ever suffered greater loss, 

Than did the men of Hood's Bigade. 

At Freedom's cry, they left their all 

And flew to old Virginia's aid, 
.Where, pressing forward at her call, 

West Point was stormed by Hood's Brigade. 

At Seven Pines the Texas yell 

Was heard through tangled brake and glade; 
^Tiile among them many heroes fell, 

Victors at length stood Hood's Brigade. 

At Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbor, too, 
With helpless Richmond nigh dismayed; 

There routed were the boys in blue, 
By those who fought in Hood's Brigade. 

At White Oak Swamp was battle joined. 
And blow for blow was quickly paid, 

Fame's medals there were freshly coined, 
And proudly won by Hood's Brigade. 



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241 



On Malvern Hill, Old Stonewall bv. 
With Jeb Stuart ready for a raid, 

Again the blue coats had to fly ; 

The game was flushed by Hood's Brigade. 

From Hazel Run thro' Thoroughfare Gap, 
To where Bull Bun's water strayed, 

At Boonsboro hit McClellan a tap. 

To Sharpsburg's Heights swept Hood's 
Brigade. 

'Twas at the far-famed Wilderness, 
■^Tiere Grant his forces all displayed. 

Some Southron's fled the battle's press, 
But these were none of Hood's Brigade. 

Bold Lee came flaming to the front. 

As well McArdle has portrayed, 
But soldiers led him from the brunt — 

"Lee to the rear !" cried Hood's Brigade. 

At Darbytown they were well met. 

And the blue coats with them roughly played ; 
They laughed and shouted — "Texas get!" 

"Yes, we get, you bet !" said Hood's Brigade. 

At Gettysburg, where shot and shell, 
With grape nigh formed a shade. 

As tho' lured on by marriage bell. 

Upward swept tliis bold. Hood's Brigade. 

At Chancellor's, where Jackson's arm 
Forever sheatlied hi.-; trenchant hhulc. 

As whirlwind strong, without alarm. 
To victory rushed this Hood's Brigade. 

On Appomattox's bloody field. 

Where Fate most sadly was obeyed. 

Without dishonor's taint did yield, 
The remnant left of Hood's Brigade. 

On thirty fields these heroes fought. 

And never will their laurels fade. 
For true renown is ever bought 

By deeds like these of Hood's Brigade. 

But now this cruel war is o'er. 

With all its danger and parade; 
May sweet peace reign forever more. 

Pray all the men of Hood's Brigade. 
********* 

War had along with shadows drear 
Its lights in which was humor rayed; 

Many a loud and ringing cheer 
Betokened fun in Hood's Brigade. 

'Twas Christmas times, the war was hot, 
Of home thought men of every grade. 

And sadly sighed at their hard lot — 

No Christmas times had Hood's Brigade. 



The papers spoke of sumptuous feast — 
Turkeys, chickens, by cooks arrayed; 

Cakes, pies and things from South and East, 
To feed to the full Hood's Brigade. 

But when it came, 'twas feast so small, 
Tho' sent by men of every trade; 

"Let Richmond's poor now have it all ; 
We'll do without !" said Hood's Brigade. 

But here you have a table spread 

With cakes, and wines, and lemonade. 

Of turkeys hams, be there no dread, i 

But "sperets" float e'en Hood's Brigade. 

But ah ! time thins your much loved ranks — 
The boys of yore are maimed or grayed, 

Still are you full of merry pranks, 
For death alone stills Hood's Brigade. 

A toast ! a toast ! Come bow your head, 
Use water which your God has made; 

I drink now to the honored dead 
Who grandly died in Hood's Brigade. 

"The press, molder and exponent of public 
opinion — in wise hands the pen is indeed 
mightier than the sword." Response by Harry 
Cassil, of the Houston Post. 

"R. E. Lee; the South, which gave to the 
world her Washington as a monument of true 
greatness in success, has also given a Lee, to 
illustrate tlie grand character of a hero under 
defeat. 

From its scabbard never hand 
Drew sword from stain so free ; 

Nor purer sword led a braver hand; 

Nor braver bled for a brighter land; 

Nor brighter land a cause more grand; 
Nor cause a leader like he." 

Response by Major Hume. 

"The surgeons faithful on the wounds of a 
friend." Response by Dr. Burroughs. 

"Stonewall Jackson; he made the enemy his 
purveyors, and settled with them by a check on 
tl;e bank of the Potomac." Response l)v Colonel 
Winkler. 

"Germania and Columbia." Response by 
Prof. Jesser. 

"Peace hath her victories no less renowned 
than war." Response by A. E. Brietz. 

"The youth, who were the hope of the Con- 
federacy in 1861, are the stay of the Union in 
1881." Response by Mr. Haggerty. 

"The seed corn of the republic has been pre- 
served." Response by Seth Shepard. 

The dinner and toasts occupied the time until 
half past five. 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN B. HOOD. 



General Hood was bom at Owensville, Bath 
count}-, Kenrucky, June 29, 1831. He was edu- 
cated at Mount Sterling, entered West Point 
ililitan- Academy in 1849, and, graduating at 
the end of the usual term, he joined the Fourth 
Regiment of Infantri- in 1853. With this regi- 
ment he served nearly two years in California, 
and then was transferred, in July, 1855, to the 
Second Cavalry to wliich Albert Sydney John- 
ston and General Robert E. Lee belonged, in 
the respective c-ommands of Colonel and Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel. With this regiment he did duty 
on the western frontier of Texas, and in July, 
1856, was wounded in a fight with the In- 
dians. No doubt it was here, in the wild service 
of West Texas, he derived that boldness and 
dash so conspicuous in him during the four 
years of terrible strife he was soon called to 
participate in. This is apparent from the fact 
that, sometime before the vvar between the 
States began, he was ordered from Texas to re- 
port for duty as instructor of cavalry at West 
Point, but afterwards, at his own request, was 
returned to his regiment then at San Antonio. 

He resigned his commission in the United 
States Army on April 16, 1861, and entered the 
Southern Army with the rank of First Lieuten- 
ant and ordered to report to General Lee early 
in May, 1861. He was then appointed Cap- 
tain of cavalry, and sent to Magruder, then in 
command on the Peninsula. He was engaged 
in many skirmishes, and a fight at Big Bethel. 
On September 30, 1861, he was ordered to Rich- 
mond, and received the rank of Colonel of in- 
fantry, and assigned to the Fourth Texas Regi- 
ment — which had just reached Richmond from 
Texas. 

At this period Hood was in all the manly 
vigor of good health, and presented a fine com- 
manding appearance, with a powerful, melodi- 
ous voice, and a kindly though piercing eye : 
consequently his soldierly bearing and look soou 
won upon his men and very sf)eedily he obtain- 
ed their cordial good will. The men found him 
able and ready to give all the necessary instruc- 
tion, not only in drilling them but also in other 
minor technicalities of the field. Thus he suc- 
ceeded in forming a magnificent regiment out 
of a hardy and daring set of volunteers from 
historic Texas. 

In November, 1861, Hood and his regiment 
were ordered to Dumfries, Virginia, and there 
with the First and Fifth Texas Regiments, or- 
ganized into a Brigade under Senator Louis 
T. Wigfall, who had been appointed a Briga- 
dier-General. 

When, however. Senator Wigfall had to take 



his seat in the Confederate Congress, on March 
3, 1862, Colonel Hood was assigned to his post, 
with a Brigadier's rank. 

In this month tlie grand army of Tirginia 
evacuated Manassas, and marched south. Hood's 
Brigade then accompanied it to the Peninsula, 
and was attached to Longstreet's Corps at York- 
town and Williamsburg and when the army 
evacuated the Peninsula and retreated to Rich- 
mond, Hood's Texas Brigade brought up the 
rear of the main force. On May T, 1862, the 
Union forces under Franklin landed at El- 
tham's Landing, on the York river, in great 
forc-e, with the intention of cutting off the re- 
treat of Jolmston and capturing his whole wag- 
on train. General Hood with his small force 
of Texans came prominently forward in attack- 
ing him. Posting his Texans in an advantageous 
position in the swampy woods, he fell like an 
avalanche upon the advancing Federals, and 
gave them such battle as they could not face 
or withstand. The fight was wild and confuse-1 
for hours. The Texans fought in true Indian 
style, from log to log, from tree to tree, never 
giving an inch but all the time steadily advanc- 
ing. The enemy hurriedly fell back to their 
gunboats and opened up a terrible fire, shell- 
ing ever\- possible foot they thought the Con- 
federates could occupy. Hood's Texans however 
had not stopped in their wild tactics until they 
themselves were almost in the shadow of the 
boats. Xor did they leave their position hurried- 
ly, but doggedly held the Federal army at bay 
long enough to insure the safe passage of the 
wagon train. In meantime the continual fire 
from the gunboats sent their crashing shells 
far above the heads of the Texans. As night 
closed in General Hood withdrew and followed 
the main army towards Richmond. 

Being held in reserve there was little chance 
for further distinction at Seven Pines, but 
within a short time thereafter Hood and his 
Texans won immortal fame at Gaines" ^liU — 
which was their first great battle. Previously 
they had been held in reserve, placed where des- 
perate men were wanted on skirmish line or 
outpost duty. Now, however, they were called 
upon to show of what stuff they were made and 
the most forlorn and desperate dubi" was assign- 
ed them, and never did seasoned troops of any 
combination on this earth, more nobly or glori- 
ously do the awful work meted out to them. 
The Federal batteries formed a deadly line that 
was belching awful destruction and defied the 
best efforts of picked troops to dislodge them. 
Ref)eated charges had been made only to break 
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Hood said his brigade would do their best, and 
when the moment came the command was given. 
Hood himself, on foot, led them forward in 
this charge of death. The brave Texans, with a 
blood-curdling yell, at a run, rushed right on, 
heeding not the countless numbers that fell at 
every step, until they reached the redoubts, 
when delivering a (leadly fire that leveled every- 
thing before it, they rushed right at the guns. 
With demoniac shouts and clubbed guns they 
attacked everything in sight and a hand-to- 
hand conflict ensued ; their ranks were broken 
time and again, but rapidly closing up, the 
Texans fought like fiends. The result is known. 
No power on earth could withstand such an on- 
slaught. The enemy fled before the tremendous 
charge of Hood's Texas Brigade, while Hood, by 
his desperate courage and gallantry on this oc- 
casion was made a Major-General. 

From this time the movements of General 
Hood were so bound up with the grand army 
under General Lee, that to relate them in detail 
would be to exhaust our vocabulary, since he 
was everywhere that work was to be done and 
his men were as untiring as himself. 

At the battle of Second Manassas, August 
oO, 18G3, General Hood was again conspicuous 
for great daring and wonderful skill in his 
movements. On the first day, it is related that 
"General Lee, seeing the moment had arrived 
for a demonstration on the enemy's left, about 
nightfall this was undertaken. Hood's men were 
ordered forward and no sooner had these splen- 
did troops thrown themselves with ardor into 
the contest, than the whole appearance of the 
field suddenly changed. Up to that moment 
the conflict had been obstinate, but the firing 
upon both sides had perceptibly decreased in 
intensity. It was just at this moment Hood's 
men advanced ; and the quick tongues of flame 
leaped from the muzzles of his muskets, light- 
ing up the gathering gloom with their crimson 
light. Then with one long roar of musketry, 
and a maze of quick flashes everywhere, Hood's 
men charged forward, with wild cheers, driving 
the enemy before them into the depths of the 
forest." 

In the next day's conflict. Hood took the 
advance of Longstreet and pressing forward, 
"never yielded an inch." Hood himself shared 
equally the dangers of his men, and when the 
gory fight was won, could claim a full share 
of the high praise bestowed by General Lee on 
the charge he made. 

It is a strange coincidence that the troops 
actually opposed to Hood's men at this battle 
were the same he encountered at Gaines' Mill; 
they had been waiting, and praying, to meet 
him again ; and as there, after a most desperate 



and gallant contest, they had to retire before 
him. 

The first invasion of ilaryland, in Septem- 
ber, again brought General Hood prominently 
forward at Boonesboro, where he held the 
jnountain pass against McClellan until Lee 
came up. Hood accompanied the army to Fred- 
ericksburg. Here Hood held the right of Long- 
street, and was consequently on the left of 
Jackson. The enemy had captured everything 
in front of Hood's position, but he quickly 
charged and dispossessed them, and drove them 
back with great loss. 

In February, 1863, Hood was at the Seige of 
Suffolk, in Southeast Virginia. In June he was 
again in JIaryland at the second invasion of 
(that state by General Lee. General Hood was 
severely wounded in the arm, at Gettysburg, 
and on the retreat he suffered very much. It 
was at first thought his arm could not be saved, 
but proper care and attention preserved it, 
though ever afterw'ards it was shriveled and 
useless. Still, he would not forsake his com- 
mand. Resting awhile, he insisted on accom- 
panying Longstreet into East Tennessee, and 
then on to reinforce Bragg, then in active prep- 
aration for the battle of Chickamauga. In this 
battle General Hood was on the left hotly en- 
gaged and ultinuitely drove the enemy from his 
entire front. Second day at Chickamauga, Sun- 
day, Septemljer 20, 1863, he was again wound- 
ed, making it necessary to amputate his leg, 
it being nearly torn from his body and terri- 
bly shattered. For his valuable and marked 
service on this occasion he was made a Lieu- 
tenant-General ; but six months elapsed before 
he could again take the field. 

In the beginning of March, however, he was 
at Richmond, and aboiit the middle of the 
month proceeded to take command of his corps 
in North Georgia. On his way to Dalton, a 
collision occurred between trains and General 
Hood suffered much, but would continue his 
journey. At the Battle of Eesaca, Hood com- 
manded the right and as the army fell back 
he effectively and stubbornly disputed the ad- 
vance of the enemy and made it a continual bat- 
tle for him to advance. 

On the 18th of July, General Johnston was 
relieved from command and General Hood ap- 
pointed in his place, and assumed command 
in the following address: — 

Headquarters Army of Tennessee, 
July 18, 1864. 

Soldiers : In obedience of orders from the 
War Department, I assume command of this 
army and department. / feel the weight of the 
responsibility so suddenly and unexpectedly de- 
volved upon me by this position, and shall bend 



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all my energies and employ all my skill to meet 
its requirements. I look with confidence to 
your patriotism to stand by me, and rely upon 
your prowess to wrest your country from the 
grasp of the invader — entitling yourselves to 
the proud distinction of being called the de- 
liverers of an oppressed people. 

J. B. Hood, General. 

There is not in all military annals such an 
instance or such a picture — together with all 
its incidents and surrounding circumstances — • 
as that of General Hood relieving Johnston in 
command of the Confederate Army before At- 
lanta. 

It takes all the ability and bravery of the 
best of generals to conduct his own campaigns 
— and few would undertake to remedy mistakes, 
or harmonize elements connected with the com- 
mand of another — right in the face of a power- 
ful enemy. 

Again, in body, General Hood was not a sem- 
blance of a physical man. The maganificent 
physique that stamped the man of 1861 was 
all gone. With an arm all but wrenched from 
his body at Gettysburg, and now hanging a 
withered and useless member by his side, minus 
a leg that had been shattered to pieces and lost 
at Chickamauga, with other wounds besides, 
and yet not recovered from a railroad wreck, 
how wonderful it is that he was yet willing to 
follow his country's flag to the death and count- 
ed not if every other limb followed those gone 
before. 

In reflecting upon the career of General 
Hood it causes one to believe that indeed men 
can be born, who in their nobility, devotion, 
principles and courage soar far above earthly 
comprehension. He was evidently one of those 
whom no disaster or physical ailments — not 
even the terrible dismemberment of his body — 
nor any amount of external trouble, annoyance, 
or ill-will, can crush, but the spirit within was 
as powerful to will and to do as ever. Certainly 
all must — or ought to have known — that his 
future career could never be as conspicuous 
as it had been, and does it not seem he better 
deserved to have become the loved and honored 
ward of his country — instead of its active de- 
pendence in such a crisis and hour of need. 

His was no longer the fine commanding pres- 
ence of earlier days, in the outset of his military 
life — nearly four years of hardest active serv- 
ice having reduced his frame, and robbed him 
of all his physical ability, leaving the vigor of 
his powerful mind alone unbroken, and the 
piercing directness of his steel-like eyes un- 
dimmed. An eye witness says of him at this 
time: "I saw General Hood today, surround- 



ed by a group of magnificent-looking llajor- 
Generals and Brigadiers, in earnest converse 
under an oak tree. General Hood, notwithstand- 
ing his crippled condition and emaciated form, 
looked every inch the commander he was, and 
was in as cheerful flow of spirits as any of his 
brave and patriotic veterans." 

When we reflect as to how and when General 
Hood consented to take command of the Army 
of Tennesi?ee, our admiration for this great 
hero of the South becomes more intense and 
his wonderful patriotism and love for the Con- 
federacy, which far exceeded ordinary human 
comprehension. 

The record says: "On Sunday, the ISth of 
September, 1864, President Davis arrived at 
General Hood's headquarters, and, the follow- 
ing day, reviewed the whole army. In the even- 
ing the President addressed the soldiers in 
hopeful and encouraging tones. Turning to 
Cheatham's division of Tennesseans, he said : 
'Be of good cheer, for within a short while your 
faces will be turned homeward, and your feet 
pressing Tennessee soil.' President Davis was 
followed by General Howell Cobb, who made 
a very eloquent speech interspersed with many 
happy hits. Again and again General Hood was 
enthusiastically called for. At length he pain- 
fully rose from his chair and slowly came for- 
ward, and dashing his hat from his head like 
a blushing schoolboy, the General said : 'Sol- 
diers, it is not my province to make speeches. 
I was not born for such work ; tliat I leave to 
other men. Within a few days I expect to give 
the command "Forward,'' and I believe you are 
like myself, willing to go forward, even if we 
live on parched corn. I am ready to give the 
command "Forward" this very niijht. Good 
night.' " 

General John B. Hood was too grand a man 
in every respect for this author to attempt to 
reflect upon him because he could not win the 
independence of the Confederacy. General Rob- 
ert E. Lee and many other glorious men failed 
— who like Hood did their best. General Hood 
was one of the ablest corps commanders that 
ever existed upon this globe, and covered both 
himself and the troops he commanded with an 
everlasting wreath of glory. That as command- 
er of an army why he was not able to bring vic- 
tory to the Southern cause has been long fully 
understood by all fair-minded people, and 
General Hood, like General I^ee, and like the 
gallant soldiers that fought under them, all 
did their best. 

At Tupelo, Mississippi, General Hood took 
leave of the Tennessee Army in the following 
order : — 



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Headquarters Army of the Tennessee, 
Tupelo, Miss., Jan. 23, 1865. 
Soldiers : At my request, I have this day 
been relieved from the command of the army. 
In taking leave of you, accept my thanks for 
the patience with which you have endured 
your hardships durincr the recent campaign. / 
am alone responsible for its conception, and 
strove hard to do my duty in its execution. I 
urge upon you the importance of giving your 
entire support to the distinguished soldier who 
now assumes command, and shall look with deep 
interest on all your future operations, and re- 
joice at your success. 

J. B. Hood, General. 

After General Hood had visited Augusta, 
Ga., on the 3rd of February, to accept an ova- 
tion, receive a serenade, and make a speech, he 
paused long enough to publish his official re- 
jiort of the Tennessee Campaign — in which he 
differs much with General Johnston — and af- 
terwards proceeded to his home at San Antonio, 
Texas. 

There he quietly remained, trying to recuper- 
ate his shattered health. In short time the war 
was over — and he busied himself at home and 
elsewhere by advising all with whom he had 
any influence to quietly accept the new order 
of things. September 25th, 1865, General Hood 
went to Washington to find out how his case 
was to be disposed of. General Hood had chose 
Texas as his home and once said to me, "I am a 
Texan at heart and expect to live, die and be 
buried in Texas.'' The war ruined his hopes and 
subsequent events destroyed all his plans and 
he died of yellow fever in New Orleans during 
the terrible epidemic of 1879. Mrs. Anna Marie 
Hood, the devoted wife and mother, died on the 
evening of August 24, 1879. General Hood, the 
bereaved husband and father, followed on the 
morning of August 30th, leaving behind them 
in full orphanage, eleven children of very ten- 
der years. Lydia, the eldest of these, died on 
the evening of the same day, leaving ten young, 
helpless children, the eldest of whom were 
twins of the age of nine years and two months. 
The youngest was one month old. 

The generous heart of the country was quick- 
ly moved to the grateful recognition of the vir- 
tues, the chivalry and self-sacrificing devotion 
of the departed hero, and to an active and giv- 
ing sym[)athy for his children. Together with 
Hood's Texas Brigade committees were formed 
and a large amount of money raised and in- 
vested for the maintenance of the orphans. 
They were much sought for by wealthy people 
and were favorably and satisfactorily adopted 
into desirable homes. Hood's Texas Brigade still 
attempt^; to keep up with its wards and has a 



consciousness that fate has been kind to all its 
loved General's second Hood's Brigade. 



REPORT ON GEN. HOOD'S CHILDREN, 
READ AT BRENHAiVI, JUNE 22, 1881. 

New Orleans, June 14, 1880. 
Gen. J. B. Robertson, President Hood's Bri- 
gade Association, Waco, Texas: — 
Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge 
receipt of your letter of June 1st, in which you 
ask for information, to be laid before the sur- 
vivors of Hood's Texas Brigade at their annual 
reunion to be held at Seguin, Texas, on July 
14, 1880, "regarding the condition of the or- 
phan children of General Hood, what disposi- 
tion has been made of them, and what is pro- 
posed to be made; what amount of funds has 
been raised for their maintenance, and how in- 
vested, and who has the authoritative control of 
them."' I take oleasure in giving you the de- 
sired information. 

I enclose copy of the will of Mrs. E. R. Hen- 
nen, grandmother of the children, who was con- 
firmed by the probate court as their natural 
tutrix (or guardian), from which you will see 
that General Hood comniitted his children en- 
tirely to her control, and that she, at her death, 
which occurred April 6, 1880, transferred their 
trust to her brother-in-law, Mr. John A. Mor- 
ris, who had most generously and serviceably 
aided her in this charge up to the period of her 
death. 



LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE 
LATE MRS. HENNEN. 

The following is the will of the late Mrs. 
Hennen, as opened and read yesterday in the 
second district court : 

New Orleans, January 7, 1880. 

MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. 

General J. B. Hood, in the presence of wit- 
nesses, gave me his children unconditionally. 
Sliould it ever be necessary' to prove this. 
Colonel Samuel Flower and Mrs. Desire Mus- 
son can certify to the above. 

I, in virtue of the authority given me by 
General J. B. Hood do, in case of my death, be- 
queath my grandchildren, Annabel, Ethel, Gen- 
( vieve, John Bell, Duncan, Norbed, Lillian "^la- 
rie, Marion Maud, Oswald and Aum Gertrud'\ 
to my brother-in-law, John A. Morris, husband 
of my late husband's sister, Cora Hennen. I 
wish him to have sole control of the children 
and all property they have at my death. I com- 
mend these little orphans to his fatherly love 



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and protectiou, and feel assured he will give 
them the tender solicitude he has for his own 
children. 

****** 

I wish to acknowledge the unwavering kind- 
ness of Colonel Samuel Flower to the children 
of his friend, General J. B. Hood, and liope 
those orphans will never forget his services to 
them in the hour of trial. 

To John A. Morris I again commend my pre- 
cious ones, with the full confidence of his abil- 
ity to act for them with judgment and conscien- 
tiousness. 

Written entirely by myself. Xew Orleans, 
Jan. 7, 1880. Eleanor Hexxex. 

It was Mrs. Hennen's most earnest desire 
and effort, originally, to keep these children 
together ; but on her return from her tri p t t 
Austin. Texas, in December last, made with f!'." 
view of the selection of a home for them, her 
health previously delicate, suddenly failed her, 
convincing herself and her friends of her early 
dissolution. It had also become evident tliat 
the funds contributed by generous and sympa- 
thizing hearts from various portions of the 
country as well as from abroad, for the beni fit 
of the children, would prove inadeqxiate to yield 
a revenue sufficient for tbcir car- and mainten- 
ance — ten of them, and all of tender years. Ee- 
alizing this fact and conscious tliat she wo;;ld 
soon be taken from them, and their care be 
necessarily entrusted to others than kindred, 
she reluctantly concluded, in view of the many 
advantageous offers made in this b.-'vilf. thnt i 
separation would be for their future interest 
and welfare. Accordingly, all of the children 
have been disposed of as follows : 

Annabel and Ethel Genevieve, twins, born 
May 29, 1869, have been taken charge of by 
Mr. John A. Morris, referred to in Mrs. Hen- 
nen's will. Under the protection and care of 
their great-grandmother they have leen sent to 
Hanover, Germany, where Mr. ^Morris" own 
children are being educated, and where they are 
happily and most advantageously located. 

John Bell Hood, Jr., born September 23. 
1871, has been taken by Mr. and Mrs. David M. 
Russell, of Cnhojuo County. Mississi|)pi. 

Duncan Norbed, born January 25. 1873, has 
been taken bv Miss C. Furniss, of Xew York 
City. 

Marion Maud and Lillian Marie, twins, born 
March (>. 1ST4, have been taken l)V Mr. ;!iil 
Mrs. Thatclier M. Adams of Xew York. 

Odile ^lusson and Ida Richardson, twins. 
born October 19, 1870, have been taken by ^Ir. 
and Mrs. Geo. F. McGehee, of Woodsville, Miss- 
issippi. 



Oswald, bom July 11, 1878, has been takea 
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Harney, of Scars- 
dale, Xew York. 

Anna Gertrude, bom August 4, 1879, has 
i.i-en taken by ^Ir. and Mrs. M. Joseph, of Co- 
luiiibus, Georgia. 

It is proper that I should add, in view of the 
kindly interest which prompts your inquiries, 
that the above named parties, who have so kind- 
ly and generously opened both their homes and 
hearts to these orphans, are known to each 
other as well as known to or connected with 
many of the family friends of the latter; and 
;n'e people whose worth morally and socially 
will insure for the children affectionate care 
and all the advantages of cultured education 
and training. 

The amount of funds that have been contrib- 
uted for the maintenance of the children is $18,- 
412.04. These funds are still in the custody of 
the joint relief committee, composed as fol- 
lows: 

W. E. Lyman, chairman ; Francis T. Xich- 
olls, James Buckner, Samuel Flower, D. E. 
Calder, Jno. H. Murray, of Anny Xorth Vir- 
ginia ; J. A. Chalaron, G. T. Beauregard S. D. 
Stockman, Fred X. Ogden. Walter V. Crouch, 
of army of Tennessee; and have been invested, 
as they have been received, in bonds and stocks 
of the highest standing, mostly United States 
four per cents. As the cost of maintenance of 
the children, for the present, will be generously 
borne by those who have taken them in charge, 
it is proposed that the above fund, with such 
additions as niav result from f'n-tne- ;>o>-i!i!i' 
contributions, from settlement of the Hood and 
Hennen estates, from sale of General Hood's 
book, or otherwise, shall be securely place! un- 
der the joint direction of the aforesaid com- 
mittee and legal representatives of the childrc!) 
as a ready recourse in case the vicissitudes of 
fortune or other causes should deprive either or 
all of them of the protection and support they 
are now receiving; or, otherwise should good 
fortune so determine, to remain intact, save by 
its accumulations, for distribution, proportion- 
ately, as each of the beneficiaries may arrive at 
the proper age. In this connection I would ex- 
press the hope that the General's book, "Ad- 
vance and Eetreat." ma}' meet with a much 
more extended sale, as I am informed by the 
parties having the same imme<liately in charge 
that the proceeds thus far have not realized the 
cost of publication. Whilst we have to acknowl- 
edge our thanks to the press of the country 
generally, both Xorth and South, for their gen- 
erous and gratuitous advertisement of the work, 
yet the expenses of its publication have b?en 
such that unless a much larger sale of it be 



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reached the estate will be so much reduced be- 
tween cost and proceeds. 

It is also proper that I should state that the 
funds raised, I believe, through the exerlioiis or 
under the auspices of your Association, aad 
heretofore remitted to Mrs. Hennen direct, for 
the ininiediate necessities of the children and 
the construction of a tomb for the interment 
of the remains of General Hood and his daugh- 
ter, Lydia, have been so applied by her ; and to- 
gether with a few other sums contributed, to be 
similarly applied, constituted the means of 



their support up to the period of their disposi- 
tion as above stated. What balance remains 
tjiereof will, of course, be added to the relief 
fund above referred to. 

Trusting that I have satisfactorily answered 
your inquiries, I have the honor to remain; 
with higli esteem for vourself personally and the 
survivors of Hood's Brigade, 

Sam'l Flower, 
,:Vdministrator of the succession of J. B. Hood. 

Upon motion, the above document was or- 
dered spread on the minutes of the Association. 



DALLAS REUNION, JUNE 27, 1884. 



Judge Aldridge, in welcome, spoke as follows: 

ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

Ladies and Gentlemen: Nineteen years ago 
the last gun was fired in the great war between 
the States. We look around us, and, save the 
mouldering fortifications and the maimed forms 
among us, we look in vain for visible evidence 
of one of the greatest and fiercest struggles that 
ever darkened and affrighted the face of the 
earth. Not only have the outward signs of the 
great contest faded from the face of the land, 
but from the hearts of our people has faded the 
animosity engendered by the strife. The time 
has at last arrived when judgment, no longer 
beclouded by passion, awards to every man the 
loftiest patriotism, whether he battled for the 
Ulnion or against it. The fact remains to his- 
tory that the best and bravest throughout the 
Union stood in the ranks of the contending 
armies. The man from Maine and the man 
from Texas was each actuated by the utmost 
honesty of purpose and devotion to duty, and 
alike deserves the applause and gratitude of 
those for whom he bared his breast to the storm 
of battle. The brave soldiers of the Federal 
army who so gallantly measured arms with 
us upon the field, as cheerfully assert these 
truths as we do. None deny them except the 
soulless demagogue who sniffed the battle from 
afar off then, and would ride to power now by 
fanning with sacrilegious hand the last smoul- 
dering embers of political hnte. For nineteen 
years the South has devoted herself assiduously 
to the arts of peace. And peace hath her vic- 
tories no less renowned than war. Her cotton 
fields have whitened and her granaries have 
groaned year after year until at length the des- 
olation which oppressed her and spread its pall 
on every heart, has been lifted and the New 
South stands today clad in all her pristine 
strength and beauty. Under these favorable aus- 



pices we assemble here today. But let not this 
reunion be misinterpreted. Let no man mis- 
understand its meaning. It is not a revival of 
the war spirit. Believing implicitly that the 
general government was but a delegated power 
and that the sovereign States had a right to 
withdraw from the compact whenever they 
deemed it for the best interest of their people 
to do so, we appealed to force, the last argu- 
ment of sovereigns in dire extremity. How we 
maintained that argument, let the whole world 
bear witness. The torch blazed in our midst 
and the thunders of the conflict echoed on all 
our hills; from the Potomac to the Rio Grande 
and far out upon the bosom of the ocean, the 
war dog's growl told of carnage, and the waves 
were painted red with the gallant blood of the 
blue and the gray. It was truly a war of giants. 
But we were confronted by men whose ancestors 
were brothers of our own. Confronted by Eng- 
lish-speaking people, who have never ten con- 
quered by any other race, from Julius Ca?sar 
to the present time. They sometimes conquer 
one another, and so it was with us. The issues 
of the contest were two — secession and slavery. 
These issues were decided against us, and in all 
good faith we accept the result. The issues in- 
voted in that contest are res adjudicata forever. 
Nor would I have it otherwise. I believe that I 
but speak the sentiment of the Confederate sol- 
diers when I declare that I am glad that the ne- 
groes are free, and am willing that they siiall 
enjoy all the political rights that I claim foi- 
myself. And I believe that I but speak the 
same sentiment when I assert that I rejoice 
that the great Union is forever one and indi- 
visible. The stars and stripes float over no more 
devoted people in this government than the late 
soldiers of the Confederate army. Yet while 
we love the Union and the flag of our commoa 
country and stand ready to strike to the death 
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any brave or generous soul — North or Soutli — 
to forget our illustrious dead, and we never will 
forget them. Throughout the coming years t ) 
the last syllable of recorded time, we will teac'i 
our children to rise up and call them blessed. 
God forbid that the Southern people should ever 
cease to drop tears of sorrow upon their graves, 
and to twine around their monuments the rarest 
and brightest flowers of our own sunny clime. 
Their valor is the common property of the 
American people as it is that of those who 
fought them. And whether they sleep by thi; 
river side or on mountain height, by the sea, 
or 'neath the mourning pine, they are all safe 
from oblivion. The stones that mark their 
resting place may crumble and pass away, yet 
in the hearts of a great people they live on 
through the coming ages embalmed with their 
love and admiration. We love them because 
they loved us and they died for us. But to 
speak more directly to the object of this re- 
union. It is but natural that men who had 
been so closely associated in camp and upon 
the field for four long years should desire to 
meet again. And when they do meet they are 
irresistibly carried back to the scenes of the 
past. Wliat a theme in that past have the sur- 
vivors of Hood's Brigade ! They talk of El- 
tham's Landing, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, 
Malvern Hill, second Manassas, South Moun- 
tain, Sharpsbiirg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, 
Chicamauga, Knoxville, the Wilderness, Sjio't- 
sylvania Court House, Hanover Junction, Cold 
Harbor, the siege of Petersburg and Fort Har- 
rison. These are but the leading features. Ah ! 
my countrymen, what a record is that! I as- 
sert in all candor, and without enthusiasm, thai 
the record of Hood's Brigade is the brightest 
page in the military history of the world. The 
Macedonian Phalanx and the Eoman Leiion 
fought their inferiors. These men fought the'r 
equals in birth and their superiors in equij)- 
ment. Napoleon's Old Guard furnishes no 
such record. The nearest approach to it is bv 
the troops of the Great Carthngenian in the val- 
ley of Italy. We Texans celebrate th.e battle of 
San Jacinto. Its anniversary is made a 1egnl 
holiday by the law of the land, and I would not 
pluck one laurel from the brow of the heroes of 
San Jacinto, yet in the history of Hood's Brig- 
ade, that battle would scarcely rise above th" 
dignity of a skirmish. They displayed on a 
hundred battlefields the same valor that char- 
acterized our veterans at San Jacinto. Brave 
men all over the world have followed gallmt 
leaders into the very jaws of death. None have 
so loved their leader that they have refused 
to fight until assured of his safety. At the bat- 
tle of the Wilderness, the ragged Texans did 



this, thus saying by action that they feared not 
death, but only the loss of their commander. 
The grand old hero was moved to tears. I 
might speak of how they turned the tide of bat- 
tle at Gaines' Mill and Sharpsburg; how they, 
of all the army, stood alone, with clubbed guns 
and bloody bayonets on the mountain top at 
Gettysburg; how, as a testimonial of their valor, 
they were allowed to retain a brigade organiza- 
tion when only a battalion of them stood abne 
the ground. But I cannot discuss their achieve- 
ments. The subject in its magnitude is far be- 
yond the time I have purposed for these re- 
marks. 

We call this a reunion of Hood's Brigade. 
But well we know that Hood's Brigade is not 
here today. Let us hope that from the battle- 
ments of heaven, they lean and look with ap- 
proving eye upon this humble tribute to their 
memory. 

We have left to us only a fragment of the 
three full regiments that entered the army. Less 
than fiOO survived the war. Beggared in for- 
tune — broken in constitution — bankrupt in :ill 
save honor. 



REUNION AT SEGUIN, JULY 18, 1881 



Governor John Ireland Welcomed the Brigade. 

About noon, the vast assemblage was called 
to order by Gov. Ireland, who said : — 

Citizens, Soldiers, Members of Hood's Brigade : 

It is a pleasing task to welcome you to our 
midst — to our board and our hearts. As citi- 
zens, we extend to you all the hospitality of 
hearts overflowing with good cheer, and that 
deep and abiding faith in your manhood and 
worth that cements and binds our race in one 
family and brotherhood. As members of the 
most renowned and Justly celebrated military 
organization of any race or age, we extend to 
you tlie welcome due to a heroic and a gallant, 
band. This is not the time nor place to discuss 
the merits of the respective sides and causes in 
which you won for yourselves and country that 
renown and glory that make you the "Old 
Guard" of modern times, or the 300 of Ther- 
niopybie. The differences between your band 
and that 300 is that you were all Leonidases, 
having, one, however, who surpassed, in some 
respect*, the others in those qualities that fitted 
1 im for a leader. We see before us a small band. 
Am I told that the balance are not — that they 
are gone? This is a mistake. The others are 
here embalmed in the hearts of a grateful peo- 
))le, where thev will live green and fro'^h as long 
as the jjulse shall beat; nay, when this gener- 



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ation is no more, these little ones will meet at 
this spring, and from its pure fountain-head 
drink to the memories of Hood's brigade. Do 
not be disheartened because those principles for 
which your comrades died, and for which you 
bled and suffered, were not triumphant. Perfec- 
tion in judgment has never been attained. You 
failed in establishing those ideas for which you 
fought. Let those who defeated you content 
themselves with the fact that you have and do 
freely and honestly admit this. Let them re- 
member that true virtue and worth, with an 
enlightened people, consist mainly in following, 
with zeal and fidelity, convictions of right, and 
while others celebrate the anniversaries of the 
triumph of their cause, by the sword, let us re- 
.I'oice, with a no less hearty zeal, in doing hom- 
age to the loftiest patriotism, the most heroic 
deeds of valor known to the annals of man. The 
victorious in any cause are never wnthout their 
followers. Moral courage is more clearly dem- 
onstrated in following the defeated in a cause 
believed to be right. 

In the name of all the people, and our locnl 
government, I welcome you, gallant band, 
Hood's Brigade, to our midst, and bid you par- 
take, freely, of all that seems good. 



REUNION AT CAMERON, JUNE 27, 1885. 



Hon. E. L. Antony Delivered the Following ."Address of 
Welcome. 

ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY E. L. ANTONY. 

Ladies and Gentlemen: We are here today 
for the purpose of welcoming the survivors 
of Hood's Brigade, and as we are the host 
among our guests, permit me to address myself 
in your behalf to them. 

Survivors of Hood's Brigade! Soldiers of the 
Fallen Confedcracrj! The sons and sires, the 
maids and matrons of old Jlilam bid you wel- 
come within her precincts, bid you welcome to 
her hospitalities, bid you welcome — yea, thrice 
welcome, to tlie festivities prepared for your en- 
tertainment ! Not forgetting that many of her 
noble sons were your comrades in arms in 
"times that tried men's souls,'' it is with pride 
and deep-hearted pleasure that she greets you 
on this, the anniversary of your noblest achieve- 
ment. Your sympathies are her sympathies. 
Your memories are her memories, your glory 
is her glory. 

Recalling the time, now far in the past, when 
the people of the South after having for long 
years in the halls of Congress, in the forum, 
at the ballot box and on the hustings, fought 
nobly for rights — inalienable rights — bequeath- 
ed to them by the Revolutionary Fathers; se- 



cured to them by the guarantee of our cherished 
constitution — when all peaceful means to se- 
cure them had proven ineffectual, save one, and 
that one secession — resorted to, when the peo- 
ple had assembled in their solemn sovereign 
capacity, for the purpose of speaking into ex- 
istence a new nation, to take its stand in the 
great and honored family of nations on the 
face of the earth; when the new declaration of 
independence had been proclaimed throughout 
the land ; and when, in reply, the people of the 
Xorth, in a spirit of coercion, had sounded the 
tocsin of war; then it was that the great heart 
of the South was fired by the spirit of South- 
ern chivalry, and her people accepting the 
challenge of the North went forth to battle in 
the fierce conflict of arms, for the maintain- 
ance of those rights, dear to the hearts of all 
freemen. The call to arms resounded in every 
nook and corner of the land, and our then 
i-parsely settled community, filled with that en- 
thusiastic patiintisiu, coiunion to her entire peo- 
ple, hailed with delight the opportunity to smite 
with fire and sword their common enemy in 
defense of their homes and firesides, wives and 
little ones. 

In these stirring times came forth from vet- 
eran soldiery of the former L^nion, that famous 
warrior, John B. Hood, your old heroic com- 
inander. Sounding the battle cry of freedom 
upon the hilltojs, in the valleys and over the 
broad prairies of Texas, he gathered around him 
the truest, bravest, most patriotic body of men 
which ever unfurled its banners to the battle 
breezes or marched with dreadful tread to meet 
the invaders of a new-born nation. Into the 
foremost ranks, into the thickest of the fight 
they plunged headlong, led by the noble Hood. 
.\nd every battle field in the Old Dominion lies 
strewn with the bleaching bones of some of the 
old brigade. Nobly and well did every man do 
his duty to the sacred cause for which he 
fought, with not a traitor to the command, nor 
a deserter from its ranks. The courage, patriot- 
ism, and hardy fortitude of your great ances- 
tors in placing the Lone Star of Texas high in 
the constellation of independent sovereignties, 
as exhibited by them in defense of the Alamo, 
and at Conception and Goliad, and which cul- 
minated in the final achievement of glorious 
victory and independence at San Jacinto, fell 
upon their descendants in the fulness and rich- 
ness of their native beauty, and we but behold 
the same brilliant characteristics of the hardy 
pioneers of Texas in the conduct of their sons 
at Bull Run. Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gaines' 
Mill and a hundred other hotly contested fields, 
fighting for their rights and liberties against 
the oppressions sought to be inflicted upon 
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At Gaines' Mill when victory hesitated to 
perch upon Southern banners, when the bal- 
ances were nearly oven, with chances of suc- 
cess favorable to the Union cause, into the midst 
of the terrible conflict, the battlefield heaped 
with dead and dying and streaming with the 
blood of fallen heroes ; amid the storms of shot 
and shell, the rattle of musketry and roar of 
cannon, in the blinding clouds of smoke and 
fire which hovered over all — the Old Texas 
Brigade, in true obedience to the rallying cry 
of its great commander, with firm and steady 
tread and fixed determination, dashed with 
furious onslaught upon the hitherto invincible 
column of heroic blue-coats in their front, rout- 
ed them with fearful carnage, broke through 
their ranks, and turned the tide of battle to the 
then tottering Confederacy and brought victory 
— glorious victory — to the Southern arms, and 
at nightfall "the Bonnie Blue Flag'' unfurled 
its silken folds in triumph over the bloody 
field. Never was there greater courage display- 
ed by any soldiery in all the history of warfare. 
Not less glorious ^^■as their conduct than that 
of the victors at Jlarathon and Leuctra. Ther- 
mopylae never saw a greater sight ; and the old 
guard of Naijoleon, with all its glory and re- 
nown, never won a greater victory than this. 
And dumb be the tongue would speak to falsify 
your record ; paralyzed be the hand would write 
to rob you of its glory ! But it was all in 
vain. We lost at last. 

Survivors ! It is the memoirs of these occa- 
sions that we are here today to recount and to 
celebrate. Let us look upon them as things of 
the past, pleasant to recollect, thrilling to nar- 
rate, sad — sad, indeed — to reflect upon. We 
knew we were right; and thanks be to God, since 
the end came, our grand old ex-President Jef- 
ferson Davis, has prepared and spread broadcast 
over the land, the greatest, the most unanswer- 
able argument in defense of our cause ever 
made to sustain the cause in defense of which 
any people ever fought, and this will vindicate 
us in the eyes of the future generation. But it 
is all over now ; it is all gone, save to memory. 
We have become another people. We have as- 
sumed other and different obligations. We have 
another government to su])port. While we can- 
not forget the past, we must now look only to 
the future. While we love the memory of the 
"Bonnie Blue Flag," we must not forget our 
duties to the "Stars and Stripes." They nuike 
the flag of our country. It is ours now as much 
as it was before the disru|)tion came. Our dif- 
ferences are all settled. We are now in a new 
union — a union, indeed. There is no more se- 
cesson there. The men of the North and the 
men of the South are now 'inited in a common 



brotherhood, in a common country. It is all 
ours. And when the old American flag, the 
creation of our Revolutionary fathers, the star- 
spangled banner, which floats proudly over all 
this land from the ice-bound regions of the 
North to the tropical climes of the sunny South- 
land, basking in the gentle sun.shine of ifreedom, 
needs a blow in her defense and our new union 
calls for heroes to defend her sacred standard 
and save it from hostile hands, I dare say that 
arrayed in her behalf will be found the boys 
of the gray and the boys of the blue, standing 
side by side, fighting for her supremacy. Yet 
while this is trae, and we love our common 
country as much as they, may we not yet some- 
times come together in friendly concourse to 
indulge in the pleasures of memory ; may not 
the true history show as well the courage of the 
South as the courage of the North. If we are 
brothers again, we should all be proud of the 
heroism of both sections, not as Northern men 
and Southern men, but as united American cit- 
izens. At all events may Texas, proud empire 
that she is, never forget the valor of her son* I 
Forget it? No! In future ages, when she is 
teeming with millions of people — pros))erous, 
hapjiy, liberty-loving people; when the golden 
harvest fields all over her broad domain are 
yielding their rich fruits to the merry songs 
of the husbandman ; when her cattle browse on 
every hill and ]>lain; when the humming of 
her factories, the clinking of her anvils and 
hammers, the buzzing of her s-iws and the roar 
of her furnaces fill tb.e air with the music of 
industry, peace and plenty, and over all, floats 
our noble countr)''s flag, then will her chivalric 
people remember the heroic deeds of her sons, 
and all throughout her borders, from the sil- 
very mountains of New Mexico to the genial 
waters of the Gulf v, ill sing their praises, in 
one united, eternal, ever-swelling chorus of 
harmonious voices, the reverheratiou of which 
will flout along gently down tlie aisles of time, 
echoing and re-echoing tliroughout the bound- 
less recesses of the far off infinity ; and the 
conduct of the old brigade and its gallant lead- 
er will shine out with a yet more refulgent 
beauty. 

Again, Soldiers, we greet you with a hearty 
welcome to the bosom of nld Milam. 

OENERAL J. n. UOBERTSON 

of Hood's Brigade made a brief but eloquent 
response to the address of welcome. 

GOVERNOIl JOHX IREL.\ND 

then made the following well-defined speech, 
which was niost enthusiastically receive<l: — 

No man has a right to speak on this occasion 
except he has been a soldier in the late war. 



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When I say soldier, I do not refer to those who 
fought mosqiiitoes on the coast, but men who 
were in the front of battle with Lee, Johnston, 
and Jackson. (Voice — And Hood.) Yes, and 
Hood; I thank the gentleman for remindin'j; 
me of him. This is my first visit to Milam 
county, but I am rejoiced to meet 3'ou here to- 
day. Nowhere do we find more culture, re- 
finement, patriotism and bravery than in the 
broad state of Texas, and Milam county con- 
tains all the attributes of the other portions of 
this state. Knowing of the reunion of Hood's 
Brigade, I determined to avail myself of this 
opportunity and of an invitation "to visit you, 
and if I have not done so before it is not that 
I think less of Milam county than I do of 
Travis, but because of the vast extent of terri- 
tory included in this state. Texas is not a plac.' 
that can be jumped into and jumped over at 
one jump. Texas is a great state, of vast di- 
mensions, and in her citizens we find all those 
attributes that comprise the bone and sinew 
of all great nations in time of peace and in 
time of war. Look upon these survivors of 
Hood's Brigade, and compare them to the young 
men raised in cities and behind counters; not 
that I wish to disparage this portion of our 
population, but when we want men to fight 
our country's battles we must look for those ac- 
customed to contending with nature. I trust 
to God that we may emblam these noble men in 
our memories as / remember hearing of the 

- guard who acted with such distinguished 

bravery that hix name teas Irept forever on the 
roll, and there was always one appointed who, 

when the roll of the guards ivas called, 

ansivered to this man's name, "Here." So may 
tt always be that there will be some one to call 
to mind the noble survivars of Hood's Brigade. 
We have no enmity towards tho?e who do not 
exactly agree with us in political opinion, and 
I ask the members of this Brigade if in their 
estimation of their friends, they think less of 
those who wore the gray? It does not com- 
port with decency and good sense for anyone to 
say that these reunions shall not take place, and 
that these men shall not meet to recount the 
deeds of the past. I recollect some people of 
the Kepublican party were horrified and indig- 
nant because Mr. Da\'is was requested to go to 
New Orleans from his home at Beauvoir on 
the same train with the Liberty bell. Mr. Davis 
was a patriot and Mr. Davis' ancestors fought 
for the establishment of the liberty which that 
bell represents, and it was after Mr. Davis him- 
self had performed gallant services in the field 
when the Mexican army was rcspulsed, that 
General Taylor stepped up to him on the field 



of battle and said, "Mr. Davis, my God was a 
l)etter judge of men than I was." And yet when 
the commissioners returned from the exposition 
they were met with denunciations for allowing 
this man to ride on the same train with the 
Liberty bell. It has been said by our detractor-: 
that we are rebels still, that notwithstanding 
these soldiers delivered up their guns at Ap- 
pomattox and received paroles, they are trait- 
ors. But I say they were never traitors. They 
are patriotic and loyal citizens. We have wo- 
manhood, manhood, patriotism and loyalty sec- 
ond to none, not to any person or partv, to anv 
man or set of men, Init to the right. I speak to 
you as John Ireland. I believe tliat those who 
come here from the North, even though they 
once bore arms against us will receive the same 
consideration as one of Hood's Brigade. But 
they must not try to rob us of the right to ou:- 
own opinion. Tliey must give us the right ti 
construe the constitution according to our own 
ideas of right and justice. These men are not 
traitors — were never traitors. No man who 
fought for what he con.scientiously believed to 
Ije right can be a traitor. When our soldiers sur- 
rendered and laid dow-n their arms at Appo- 
mattox they meant what they said, and while 
their deeds as soldiers can never be excelled, 
yet they are true to our common country. This 
is no time for speaking. I did not come here to 
speak, yet I am willing and happy to add any- 
thing to your pleasure today. You have your 
chosen orators who will address .you, and I will 
only add a few words of congratulation on your 
condition. The state is marching on to improve- 
ment, and while reports do come to us occa- 
sionally of crimes, and they come from Milam 
county with the others, yet crime is not on the 
increase, but the increased facilities of morn- 
ing papers, telegraphs and telephones bring 
tiiem more frequently to our ears. I ain told 
that by the next election this county will ca-l 
5,000 votes, and the improved and growth of 
this county is but a type of what is going on 
throughout the state. We are in the habit of 
lauding our state for its size, its productions 
and its grandeur in all respects. We are all 
proud of it. In a few years she will number 
5,000,000 inhabitants, and instead of 13 rep- 
resentatives will send 35 representatives to the 
legislature. I saw an editorial the other day 
headed ''Division of the State." Is there one 
here who would be willing to see this great 
state divided? (Cries of "No, No!") I hope I 
will never live to see such an event hai;)pen. I 
do not believe there is a man so popular or so 
influential as to live in the affections of the 
people a single day if he expressed a wish to 
divide this great Empire State. We are one and 



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indivisible, united in sentiment, politics and 
all things. There are some who have been 
spoutin;,r about free grass, and quoting from 
that time-honored speech of Piitrick Ilcury. 
which ^^-e all used to speak iu our .-^cliool-boy 
days, the sentence, ''iTive ire liberty, or give 
me death,'' they have said "Oive lis free grass, 
or give us deitli." (Voice — They are gras- hop- 
pers.) Yes, they remind me of grasshopi-.ers. 



Educate your cliildr'cn, Iniild scIiodI houses, 
and olisLTve the laws. However hiird and op- 
jiressive a hiw may seem, it is your duty as 
good cit'zens to lender obedience. By these 
means you will rai.re wor;hy sons to succeed you, 
and should our boys ever be called on to fight, 
let them be certain that it i.s for the right and 
not for jiower. 



THE NAVASOTA REUNION, JUNE 29, 1886. 



Hood's Texas Brigade is the Pride of Texans. Captain F. B. Chilton's Stirring Appeal to 
His Comrades to Attend the Reunion at Navasota, will be Read with Interest and Feeling 



"Comrades," writes Colonel Chilton with an 
eloquence that is admirable in its simplicity 
and strength, in touching reference to the 
brigade's war record, "no sublimer spect:iele of 
fortitude, no grander example of loyalty to 
principle, nor nobler picture of unselfish patri- 
otism and undying devotion to country was 
ever exhibited by human beings of this or any 
other earth. Only true and loyal soldiers of the 
living God ever equaled your devotion to Vr.e 
cause that you held so dear — the cause that was 
lost. The record you made then must live after 
you have gone, and it is for the furtherance of 
that purpose that I plead with every member 
of you to be at Navasota." 

The brigade will be the guests of the town. 
The citizens' program provides for a great en- 
tertainment, the fame of which will long en- 
dure. There will be feasting and eloquence. 
Athenian oratory and Koman banqueting, and 
Grimes County will be remembered by tho-e 
fortunate enough to be present as a land flov\- 
ing with milk and honey and echoing with sil- 
ver-tongued speech. 

No one can doubt the Americanism of the 
South. But our patriotism is founded on loy- 
altv to the South; the South of 17:6, the South 
of "l812, the South of 1840, and the South of 
1861, as well as the South of 1898. The mem- 
ory of the great Civil War is a precious her- 
itage. The Lost Cause left unimpair(>d the 
great principle of civil liberty for which the 
South contended. You may defeat a people, 
but you can not kill a princiide. A principle 
is eternal, being part of the eternal law. 

Therefore the veterans of the Confederacy, 
among whom Hood's Texas Brigade made for 
themselves an illustrious name, arc held in 
honor. Their valor and self-sacrifice for their 



country are an inspiration and example for this 
and succeeding generations for all time. 

Texas has not forgotten her dead who died 
for her on the battlefields of the Confederacy. 
The surviving veterans are venerable not only 
because of age and the weight of years, but also 
because of their achievements and endurance, 
their courage, wounds, and hardships bravely 
borne. The gathering of these old men honor- 
able will lie a notable occasion. The Navasota 
reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade will be a fit- 
ting assemblage of the old soldiers, a pleasure 
to them, and memorable exhibition to our young 
men of the glory of the gray. 

THE PROCESSION. 

The proceedings at the Opera House closed 
at 11 o'clock. After charming music by the 
hand the procession formed on Washington 
.Vvenue, and marched to the barbecue ground 
in the following order: 

Herb's Light Guard Band, of Houston ; 
Bryan Rifles, commanded by Captain Tom Mc- 
Queen ; Navasota Guards, commanded by Ca{>- 
tain James Wesson; Lee's Light Infantry, 
commanded by Captain Robert Harlock, Jr.; 
Governor Ireland and other distinguished vis- 
itors ; members of Hood's Brigade, in carriages 
and buggies; citizens in buggies and on horse- 
Ijack and citizens on foot. 

Thus formed the procession under charge of 
Grand ilarshal Joe D. Baker and ass'stants 
moved up Washington Avenue to Railroad 
Street and turned in that thoroughfare. At 
this point the scene was grand and imposing. 
The measured tread of the marching military 
in perfect harmony with the sweet, inspiring 
strains of martial music, surrounded by pranc- 



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ing steeds, gay paraphernalia, bright bayonets, 
glistening and glittering in the sunshine, aug- 
mented by the cheers and plaudits of thou< 
sands of patriots who thronged the wayside, 
vividly brought to mind involuntary visions of 
the terrible scenes through which the torn and 
shattered remnant of one of the bravest brig- 
ades that ever faced a foe had passed. Arriving 
at the grounds, ranks were broken and a rush 
made for the grandstand. In a few seconds all 
available space in and around it was occupied 
by those eager to hear the patriotic recitation 
by one of Navasota's loveliest daughters, Miss 
Julia Owen. In a firm, sweet voice, as clear 
and as distinct as the silvery notes of a tinkling 
bell, she impressively uttered the soul-thrilling 
sentiments contained in the beautiful poem, 
"The Southern Soldier." It touched the hearts 
of the old heroes and brought tears to many 
eyes. Following are the verses : 

THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER. 

The war is passed; the weary march; 

The charge upon the cannon's mouth. 
Have left a remnant of the brave 

Defenders of our lovely South. 
And now that peace returns again, 

With sacred olive-branch in hand 
It is but mete that we should greet. 

The brave defenders of our land. 

Ye Southern soldier, tried and true. 

With pride we dwell upon your fame; 
Among earth's patriotic sons. 

There is not writ a prouder name. 
For while the foe from every land 

Drew men and arms, Ye stood alone, 
And hurled him back upon his track, 

Like waves that strike a wall of stone. 

Ye were not conquered ; nor subdued ; 

But overpowered by foreign aid — 
By Europe's nihilistic hordes. 

To whom the price of blood was paid; 
Bid had the North and South alone, 

Unaided, fought the battle through 
The Southern cause had won applause, 

And victory remcLvned with you. 

But let it pass ; a power divine 

Directs the course of human weal. 
And while our hearts do not repine. 

For the 'lost cause" we ever feel 
A grateful pride in Southern hearts, 

Who held, alone, the world at bay. 
For twice two years thro' blood and tears, 

A part of whom we greet today. 



The cause for which you fought is just, 

And sacred now as e'er before — 
The right to govern our own affairs. 

The foeman will deny no more. 
For this you fought ; for this alone, 

Which in the union now is ours; 
Instead of two, one flag we view. 

And one — the disunited power. 

Ye brave defenders of the South, 

Who with our noble chieftain stood. 
With hearty cheer we welcome you. 

And drop a tear to Lee and Hood. 
And now to our Confederate chief. 

Three patriotic cheers we give; 
The Southern heart gives him a part. 

And long it prays our chief may live. 



HON. GUSTAVE COOK 

the orator of the day at 13 o'clock took the 
stand and delivered a magnificent address. His 
speech was a master effort, abounding with elo- 
quence and sound reasoning, and was univer- 
sally pronounced the strongest address ever de- 
livered by that gentleman. From it we extract 
the following eloquent passages : 

Men of Hood's Brigade ! neither shall I 
pronounce any eulogy upon you, for already 
it is inscribed upon the memory of your coun- 
trymen. Moved by that patriotic spirit which 
alone makes free government possible, you an- 
swered the call of the State to which you owe 
allegiance, and turning away from the allure- 
ments of home and hearthstone, bared your 
good right arm for the strife. Shoulder to 
shoulder, and sustained by a sense of duty 
which admitted of no wavering doubt, you 
staked the forfeit of your lives, your fortunes 
and your sacred honor. I shall not follow your 
bleeding footprints, nor linger by the simple 
immarked graves that marked your line of 
march from the seven days around Richmond 
to the going down of the sun at Appomattox. 
Wlien the history of the war in Virginia is 
faithfully written, your children will read the 
matchless career of Hood's Brigade, and not 
until then can her eulogj' be pronounced. It 
is not meet that I should rehearse now the 
deeds that emblazoned the name of "Hood's 
Brigade" upon the scroll of imperishable fame. 
The fierce memories of those sanguinary days 
must not be summoned to this glorious festival, 
where peace presides and good will to men pre- 
vails. We are not here to revive the horrors of 
war, but to cultivate the inestimable privileges 
of peace. Let the memory of your hardships 
and dangers in the past be appeased by the 
peaceful blessings of the present. This re- 






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6plenclant scene is far more grateful to ihe eye 
than all the "pride, pomp and circumstance of 
glorious war." Forgetting all that is unpleas- 
ant in the past, devote yourselves to the gl.i- 
rious possibilities of the present. "BeholiI ! 
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren 
to dwell together in unity; it is like the pre- 
cious ointment that ran down upon the beard, 
even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts 
of his garment." In the providence of God we 
are again incorporated with the United States 
of North America. Whatever may have licen 
our opinions heretofore as to its wisdom or de- 
sirability, it is an established fact which as- 
serts itself and enforces its own recognition. It 
is the course of human events, directed by that 
mighty power which arrested Saul and said 
unto him: "It is hard for thee to kick against 
the pricks." It is a part of that divine econ- 
omy in which there is no mistake, and it be- 
comes us to reconcile our hearts and minds to 
the great fact, and, assuming it to be perma- 
nent, continue with a hearty good will the ]ior- 
formance of our duties under it. The diligent, 
earnest and patriotic discharge of every duty, 
civil, social and religious, which we owe to our 
country and fellow-citizens of every section, 
will make us better men, better citizens and bet- 
ter Christians. It is an educational ordeal to 
which I am sure we are subjected for our co'u- 
mon good. It will strengthen and prepare us 
morally and spiritually up the way that le;uls 
to ultimate perfection, which we believe to be 
the predestination of man. I have been sing- 
ularly honored by Hood's Brigade, for this is 
the second time it has been my lot to deliver 
your annual address, and I may be pardoned 
for referring in this connection to what I have 
said on former occasion. It has been eight 
years since, but some things which I said to 
you then I would like to impress on you by 
repetition, for I do not flatter myself so much 
as to believe you have remembered them with 
much distinctness until today. We have passed 
through the valley of the shadow of re const nu-- 
tion, and while it is not necessary and neither 
is it becoming that ice forget^ it is the part of 
tvisdom and duty, that we shall not cherish 
these rccollectiions in sullen- and angry resent- 
ment. The course of human destinv has affil- 
iated the South again with the North, and I 
come now to speak of our present and future 
duty, and to e.xhort you that you shall give 
heed. The war of shot and shell has long since 
ended, but the contest for liberty and free gov- 
ernment has yet to be decided. The contest lies 
ahead of you, and you have but to profit by the 
great lesson you iiave been so providentially 



taught, to become not only the final victors in 
the contest, but the preservers of constitutional 
liberty in America. ! men of Texas ; you 
have a mission, and I conjure you, as you love 
liberty, nerve your hearts and set your faces to- 
ward its accomplishment. Will you listen to 
me? Will you believe me? Shall I tell you 
what I told you eight years ago in order that 
I may convince you that it is no idle vagary 
which moves me to speak to you? If I repeat 
the forecast I then penned to you and you find 
it verified, will you believe? I know not how 
or why, but the vision is before me. I cannot 
believe 

" 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
But coming events cast their shadows before." 

And I do know that something inspires me 
to again spread the picture before you and 
warn you of the coming danger. Think of it, 
people of the South ! people of the North ! peo- 
ple everywhere! Eeflect that the grandest and 
most hopeful experiment of free government 
is now on trial. Think that when despotism, 
by means of its precursors, tyranny, commun- 
ism and anarchy shall have throttled our young 
America, the last and only champion of our 
popular government goes down, and answer if 
conservatism has its value, and if the South 
has her mission. 

GOV. JOHN IRELAND 

Followed Judge Cook in a grand speech. He 
was enthusiastically greeted by the vast audi- 
ence which plainly indicated the warm place he 
occupies in the hearts of the people. His ad- 
dress was received with vociferous applause. 

At the conclusion of Governor Ireland's 
speech, dinner was announced. Through the 
energy of Grand Marshal Baker, the members 
of the Brigade were the first to arrive at the 
tables and after them came the multitude. Pro- 
visions had been provided in abundance, and 
when eight thousand people had eaten all they 
wanted, enough was left for eight thousand 
more. Captain Dick Monroe deserves great 
credit for the excellent manner in which the 
barbecuing was done, and the noble ladies of 
Grimes County deserve equally as much credit 
for the delicious sweetmeats and otlier luxuries 
provided. 

PROGRAMME RESUMED. 

After a short recess for dinner and .social 
converse the programme was resumed, by the 
introduction by Hon. Norman G. Kittrell of 
the pretty and intelligent Miss Nora Barry. 
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recited the "Conquered Banner," and by her 
charming delivery at once captured the hearts 
of the audience. She fully proved herself a 
worthy daughter of the brave soldier, Captain 
W. E. Barry. Hardly had the tender voice of 
Little Nora ceased to sound in the ears of the 
audience, when some big-hearted son of Grimes 
County sighted 

MAJOR HANNIBAL BOONE 

in the crowd. He yelled "Boone !" and the 
multitude took up the refrain. Boone he>i- 
tated, but it was no use. The people were 
overflowing with love and admiration for him 
and intended to hear him speak. He mounted 
the rostrum which was at once seized by a ho.it 
of enthusiastic friends, and amid the deafen- 
ing cheers of the thousand present, was borne 
on their shoulders a point a few yards from th ■ 
grandstand. 

He paid a glorious tribute to the noble 
mothers and daughters of the South, and closed 
with a flow of oratory as grand and patriotic 
as ever charmed an audience. His eloquent 
words brought forth cheer after cheer for the 
gallant Boone and other heroes of the Con- 
federacy. 

BOYS OF THE BRIGADE. 

The 29th was certainly a field day for Grimes 
County. The presence in Navasota of the Gov- 
ernor, the reunion of the remnant of the gal- 
lant Hood"? Brigade, and the abundant show- 
ers that cooled and moistened the parched 
earth, and added renewed vigor and freshness 
to the beautiful flowers and broad, green fields 
of growing corn and cotton, contributed large- 
ly towards making it such, but not entirely all. 
Old St. Peter went to sleep. The gates of 
heaven were left ajar, and angel babes came 
down with a falling star. Captain W. E. 
Barry, Colonel J. Q. Yarl)orough and AVm. For- 
rester were the happy men. The advent of the 
young rebels occurred on the eventful 29tb — 



three bouncing boys. Young Barry will be 
known in the future as Hood Boone, in honor 
of the anniversary birthday of John B. Hood, 
and all that is left of the gallant Boone. 



IN MEMORIAM. 

BY EEV. A. J. RYAN. 
D. J. K. 

Young as the youngest who donned the gray, 

True as the truest that wore it — 
Brave as the bravest he marched away, 
(Hot tears on the cheeks of his mother lay), 
Triumphant waved our Flag one day, 

He fell in the front before it. 
Firm as the firmest where duty led. 

He hurried without a falter; 
Bold as the boldest he fought and bled. 
And the day was won, but the field was red, 
.Vnd the blood of his fresh, young heart was 
shed 

On his country's hallowed altar. 

On the trampled breast of the battle-plain, 
Where the foremost ranks had wrestled ; 

On his pale, pure face, not a mark of pain, 

(His mother dreams they will meet again), 

The fairest form amid all the slain. 
Like a child asleep, he nestled. 

In the solemn shades of the woods that swept 
The field w-here his comrades had found him. 
They buried him there, and the big tears crept 
Into strong men's eyes that had seldom wept, 
( His mother, God pity her ! smiled and slept. 
Dreaming her arms were around him). 

A grave in the woods, with the grass o'ergrown, 

A grave in the heart of his mother; 
His clay in the one lies lifeless and lone; 
There is not a name, there is not a stone. 
And only the voice of the winds maketh moan 
O'er the grave where never a flower is strewn. 
But his memory lives in the other. 



REUNION AT AUSTIN, TEXAS, JUNE 27-28, 1887. 



Hood's Veterans— The Old Brigade Meets in Annual Reunion— A BusinesslMeeting Yesterday 

Morning, and a Barbecue at Barton Springs— Governors and Congressmen 

Speak Eloquently of the Days that Tried Aden's Souls. 



The remnants of the gallant brigade which, 
on the fields of Virginia, during the great war, 
won renown for themselves, and fixed the fame 
of Texan soldiery upon the highest pinnacle 
reached by any State in the struggle, met in this 



city yesterday in annual reunion. Hood's 
Texas Brigade — the synonym of dash and gal- 
lantry, the forefront of many a charge that won 
the day; the pride of Lee and Jackson and 
Longstreet; the love of Hood and Gregg and 



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Eobertson — around the very name there clings 
the aroma of chivalry! Of 4,500 daring men 
who went into the thick of the shot and the 
shell, a tenth returned at the close of the strug- 
gle, and of these two-thirds have since passed 
over the river and joined their comrades and 
old commanders on the other side. Of the hun- 
dred who were here yesterday, empty sleeves, 
shattered limbs and weather-beaten faces attest 
the ravages that were wrought by the four 
years spent in the campaigns of Virginia. And 
dearer than all, the sight of the old veterans 
as they greeted one another, and as their eyes 
moistened when touching memories of the sor- 
rowful past were raised, attested the sacredness 
with which they surrounded the occasion of 
their assembling. 

THE BUSINESS MEETING. 

It was but a few minutes past 9 o'clock yes- 
terday morning when the old soldiers, who had 
been assembling for an hour at Nagle's store on 
the avenue, formed in line, and, preceded by 
a brass band, marched to the capitol. Here 
there were already gathered a crowd of ladies 
and gentlemen. The veterans filed into repre- 
sentative hall, which was speedily tilled. The 
Association was called to order by Major J. H. 
Littlefield, of Bryan, the Vice-President. Eev. 
Mr. Atkinson was introduced and offered a feel- 
ing invocation to the Throne of Grace. General 
A. S. Eoberts, chairman of the local commit- 
tee of arrangements, then introduced 

HON. J. W. ROBEETSON, 

Mayor of the city of Austin, who delivered an 
eloquent and touching address of welcome. 
Judge Eobertson's address was as follows : 

Soldiers of Hood's Brigade: I need not say 
to you that all the men, all the women and all 
the children of all nationalities, of all races, 
of all religions, of all political faiths, whether 
from North or South or foreign shore, who 
dwell in this city or who dwell in this country, 
unite in this welcome, this cordial welcome to 
the heroic survivors of Hood's Brigade. This 
demonstration is not intended as a mere token 
of hospitality and friendship. It means some- 
thing more. It is a manifestation of the grate- 
ful affection, respect and esteem we have for 
the brave men whose heroism on the battlefield 
has secured for them and for the cause for 
which they fought an imperishable name. We 
tender you this testimony of our remembrance 
of the sacrifices you made as Confederate sol- 
diers, of the dangers and perils )'ou endured, 
and of the imfading lustre of your valor in the 
field. 



A quarter of a century ago today, on the even- 
ing of June 27, 1863, Hood's Brigade moved up 
on the line of battle ready for action. To the 
right, along Powhite Creek, the combat raged 
with terrible fury, while the invincible col- 
umns of Stonewall Jackson were noiselessly but 
surely winding their way around to the right 
of the Federal army. The brigade advanced, 
led by that knightly chieftain, the brave and 
heroic John B. Hood. With steady tread and 
colors flying, and with the "rebel yell" rising 
above the flame and roar of battle, they charged 
upon the enemy, intrenched behind double lines 
of breastworks, supported by well served bat- 
teries, seized his guns and drove him from a 
stronghold he believed impregnable. The Fed- 
eral line was pierced and broken by this de- 
termined and brilliant assault, and a general 
advance of the Confederate army swept the en- 
emy from the field. Xight came on and closed 
over the scene. The battle of Gaines' Mill had 
been fought and won. The sun went down on 
a bloody field and our flag floated, proud and 
victorious, while the friendly darkness covered 
the retreat of the defeated and flying enemy. 
Hood's Brigade, torn and bleeding from the ter- 
rible conflict, slept on the battlefield where its 
valor had gained immortal renown and hope, 
exultant, joyful hope rested upon the victorious 
banners of the j-oung Confederacy. 

The Federal army was defeated, but the battle 
was not decisive. The beaten army was rallied 
and was ready to renew the battle with the 
dawn of morning. It is a fact, an historic and 
indisputable fact, that in this great war, with 
more than twenty general engagements, and 
more than two thousand conflicts of arms, there 
was no battle fought with decisive results. True 
it is, that at Donelson and Vicksburg, and at 
other places, armies were surrendered, but the 
loss was too small, and the blow too insignifi- 
cant to make any lasting impression on the final 
result. At Fredericksburg, Burnside was re- 
pulsed ■n'ith appalling slaughter, but his army 
was not routed or seriously demoralized, and 
he stood ready to meet his enemy at any mo- 
ment. The Federal army sustained an over- 
whelming defeat at Chickamauga, but it re- 
tired, gathered fresh strength behind its for- 
tresses, and finally drove the Confederate forces 
from Missionary Eidge, and from the invinci- 
ble fastness of Lookout Mountain. But the de- 
feated Confederate army rallied, reorganized, 
and fought with brilliant and distinguished 
courage on many other historic battlefields. 

At Shiloh the Confederates first won. then 
lost, a great battle, but the enemy was not able 
to give pursuit. Sharpsburg was a drawn bat- 
tle, and so were the terrific engagements in the 



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Wilderness and at Spottsylvania. The great 
assault at Gettysburg, the grandest illustration 
of heroic courage that is recorded in the world's 
history, failed of success, and the assaulting 
column, nearly annihilated, was hurled back 
from Cemetery Hill with awful slaughter, ter- 
minating in a disaster such as no army, save 
the Army of Northern Virginia ever yet sur- 
vived. Notwithstanding the utter defeat of the 
Confederate army, it sullenly retired across 
the Potomac unmolested. The enemy, though 
masters of the field, were appalled at the terri- 
ble shock they had received. They looked on 
in awe and wonder, while the bleeding rem- 
nants of the defeated Confederate army gath- 
ered about their colors, ready to obey any com- 
mand of their beloved chieftain. History rec- 
ords but one Gettysburg. No other battle so 
determined and destructive has ever been 
fought. 

At Nashville the half-starved and half-clad 
skeleton of the once magnificent Army of Ten- 
nessee was hopelessly defeated and driven from 
the field, routed and disorganized. In the 
dead of winter, barefooted, without clothes, 
without food, over the frozen ground, across 
the rivers and mountains, harassed at every 
step by a relentless enemy, this patriotic and 
heroic remnant of this brave and noble army, 
marched hundreds of miles, united with the 
army in North Carolina, and fought in the last 
battles with the same invincible courage and 
spirit that had given them distinction and fame 
in the earlier battles of the war. 

In all the great engagements, unparallelled 
in their ferocity, the defeated army invariably 
retired 5nd reorganized, and prepared to renew 
the stuggle. As long as the immortal Lee had 
an army he could figlit, and his worn and 
ragged followers did fight against a force that 
it was impossible for them to resist, until their 
great leader, encompassed by ruin on every 
side, halted his command at Appomattox, and 
the Army of Northern Virginia and the Con- 
federacy for which we had fought through four 
eventful and bloody years, with all their 
achievements and mighty memories, passed into 
history. The actors disappeared from the stage 
and tihe curtain of darkness shadowed the land. 

But even this final overthrow was not the re- 
sult of battle. It was a surrender to an over- 
whelming and invincible force. It was the su- 
premacy of might and power. 

In other wars, in Europe and elsewhere, a 
great battle has generally determined the re- 
sult. It was so at Waterloo, and effectually so 
at Sebastopol, at Sedan, and at Plevna. 

The percentage of killed and wounded in the 
battles of the Confederate war far surpasses the 



losses in battles between European armies. In 
the battles of Napoleon, and in the wars of 
later times, the losses in killed and wounded 
did not exceed 12 per cent. The records show 
that the average loss in our great struggle was 
more than 30 per cent. In some of the most 
desperate encounters the losses reached 40 and 
in some instances even 50 per cent, of the 
forces engaged. These terrible losses were not 
confined to one battlefield. It is true of Shiloh, 
Chickamauga and other battles in the West, and 
it is true of Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, second 
ilanassas, Chancellorsville, Sharpsburg, Get- 
tysburg, the Wilderness and Si^ottsylvania, not 
to mention many other important and well-con- 
tested engagements of the Army of Northern 
Mrginia. How shall we account for this fact 
in our history? How could it be that in a four 
years' war between the two sections of a coun- 
try, arrayed in the most destructive and bloody 
contest of arms that has ever occurred upon this 
earth, that no decisive battle should be fought? 
Why is the percentage of the loss in our war 
three times as great as in the battles that have 
settled the destinies of Europe? I answer that 
it was the private soldier, the blood and cour- 
age of the private soldiers that made this re- 
sult. It was the American soldier against the 
American soldier. It was Saxon blood against 
Saxon blood, and that blood never leaves a bat- 
tlefield unless crushed and overwhelmed by a 
superior force. The reason of this statistical 
and historical fact is found in the character of 
our citizen soldiery. It was independent man- 
hood, born and bred under the institirtions of a 
free government, and trained by intelligent dis- 
cipline. The common soldier was led by pa- 
triotic motives. He was devoted to principle, 
and he fought for principle. The world has 
never before witnessed such prolonged and de- 
termined devotion of a people to a cause. No 
such armies, composed of such material and led 
by such officers, ever before met in a battle. If 
a division was broken, tliey would fight by brig- 
ades. If brigades broke, the regiments would 
fight alone. And if the regiment was disor- 
ganized and routed, every man fought on his 
own account. Always seeking cover, the re- 
treating soldier would send tbe deadly bullet 
in the bosom of his advancing enemy from 
every rock and tree that lay in his path. He 
could be overcome and driven off, but he was 
never demoralized and was always ready for 
a fight. Such patient and heroic sacrifice, such 
endurance and such splendid courage, had 
never been witnessed before. The records of 
this war form the surest and truest test of 
American manhood. It presents the grandest 
realization of the success of free government. 



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and of the power of personal liberty in the de- 
velopment of the citizen, and the splendid 
prowess of his manhood. Such soldiers can only 
be found where the influence of free institutions 
exist. They draw their inspiration from a 
knowledge and appreciation of the duties of 
a citizen of a free republic. The character of 
the soldier rests on his independent manhood. 
Our soldiers were not bought by bounties. They 
were not mercenary, nor did they fight for 
plunder or reward. They were not forced into 
the army. They were volunteers who fought, 
bled and died for what they believed to be 
right. This is the character of the men that 
bore the Confederate flag in a hundred battles, 
and gave to history and to the world the splen- 
did example of their devotion to duty, and of 
their unfaltering courage in every danger. 

In all the records of this great war and in the 
many events and incidents of the battles that 
were fought, there will be found no grander act, 
no prouder achievement of human valor, than 
in the retaking and holding of the "bloody an- 
gle" at Spottsylvania, by Hood's and other 
brigades. There is nothing in authentic his- 
tory, there is nothing in tradition or fiction — 
bot even in the ride of the Six Hundred at 
Balaklava — that can equal, much less surpass, 
the grandeur of the courage of the men who 
retook and held the "bloody angle." It was the 
most desperate, the bloodiest, encounter of the 
war. Hood's Brigade, under the immediate eye 
of the great commander, charged upon a defiant 
and victorious foe of five times their number, 
drove him out of the greater part of the works 
he had surprised and captured, and held their 
position thoughout the day and night until 
trees were cut down by bullets, until the gi'ound 
ran red with rivulets of blood and until the 
dead were piled up in heaps. The sun in his 
course has never looked down on a scene so 
awful in blood and death. It was a voluntary 
sacrificial offering of their lives on the altar of 
their country to save a battle about to be lost. 
And it was saved. All honor to the memory 
of the heroic dead, who poured out their life- 
blood in the "bloody angle" as a libation to lib- 
erty and to save a great army from ruin and 
defeat. They sleep the eternal sleep of death 
on the field where they fell. 

"How sleep the brave wlio sink to rest, 
By all their country's wishes blest! 
When spring with dewy fingers cold 
Beturns to deck this hallowed mould. 
She there .shall dress a fairer sod. 
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 



By fairy hands their knell is rung. 
By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; 
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray 
To bless the turf that wraps their clay, 
And Freedom shall awhile repair, 
And dwell a weeping hermit there." 

Again, permit me to convey to the veterans 
of Hood"s Brigade renewed assurances of the 
most hearty and cordial welcome to this city; 
and, again to extend to you, individually, and 
as a body, the unlimited freedom of the city 
so long as you shall remain as our honored 
guests. 

The band at the conclusion of the address 
played "Dixie" in a spirited manner, and 
brought a round of applause from the audience. 

BARTON SPRINGS, 

the place where the fafted ox had been slain 
and put upon the spit. By 12 o'clock the town 
had been well nigh deserted, and the pecan 
grove at the spring was spreading its shade 
upon a crowd that approximated close to .5,000 
men, women and children. The Austin Greys 
and the Granite Rifles attended in full uniform 
and gave an exhibition drill which was much ad- ■ 
mired, but in addition to this they threw them- ■ 
selves into the breach for guard duty around 
the tables, and did effective service in keeping 
back the crowds. Considering that the Granites 
are a visiting company to the city, and that 
with the Greys they were especially invited 
guests on the grounds, this gallant conduct on 
their part deserves particular and cordial men- 
tion. 

ON THE GROUNDS. 

After the bulk of the crowd had assembled 
and the ladies, of whom there was a small army, 
had found seats on the hill sides, under the 
shade of the pecans, the battery of speakers 
began to open, and heavy firing continued 
through the whole of the engagement. 

HON. JOSEPH D. SAYERS, 

member of Congress from this district, was first 
introduced and delivered the historical and elo- 
quent address that is reported below. Major 
Sayers said : — 

Again have you assembled, not only to renew 
those associations and friendships which had 
their origin amid scenes of so interesting a char- 
acter, but also to recall the memories of those 
comrades whose lot it was to yield up their 
lives in battle, or upon the march, or in the 
camp, or in thickly crowded hospitals, or with- 
in prison walls. 

You, therefore, have a two-fold duty to per- 
form today — the one to yourselves, the other to 



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your dead — and I am quite sure that the dis- 
charge of this duty will be both pleasant and 
profitable. 

The friendships of unadventurous lives are 
of too soft a clay. They are quickly formed, 
and are as quickly broken. They germinate and 
bloom into full maturity before the midday, 
"but 'ere the shades of evening close they are 
scattered on the ground to die." 

Personal selfishnes.s and individual greed do 
their work, and they do it rapidly, easily and ef- 
fectually, making the sworn friends of today to 
become the bitter enemies of tomorrow. 

Too often is friendship but a name, 

A charm that lulls to sleep; 
A shade that follows wealth and fame. 

And leaves the wretch to weep. 

But not so with the love of the soldier for 
his fellow. The ties which spring from a com- 
mon danger, and which are strengthened and 
cemented by close companionship in privation 
and suffering, are too strong to be easily sun- 
dered, and too sacred to be soon forgotten. 
They are as enduring as the heavens them- 
felves, and they proudly defy time, distance, and 
every circumstance of life . 

Yes, survivors of Hood's Brigade, those who 
fell in the prime of their manhood's strength, 
at Eltham's Landing, or at the Seven Pines, or 
at Gaines' Mill, or on Malvern Hill, at Free- 
man's Ford, or at Manassas, or on Chickamau- 
ga's heights, or at Gettysburg, or at Shar])sburg, 
and those whose souls went out amid the ex- 
piring agonies of the Confederacy in the deep 
gloom of the Wilderness — though they have long 
since fallen — ^are with you today. In truth — 

Their faces do look upon you. 
Their forms go trooping past. 

And those battle flags of yours, I do not see 
them today. Where are they? If they be at the 
capitol as trophies of Federal prowess let them 
there remain, unsoiled by the dust of ages and 
untouched by the ravages of time, eternal mon- 
uments of Texan valor. Aye, let them remain 
there with the history which they have made — 
a history which will not fail to touch the hearts 
and fire the souU of all who admire dauntless 
courage and unshaken fortitude in the hour of 
peril and of suffering. There were many thou- 
sands called from the mountains and the val- 
leys, from the plains and the woodlands of the 
South to stand guard around the capital of the 
newly-l)om Confederacy, but of them all no 
troops crowned themselves with a more imper- 
ishable halo of glory than those three regiments 
who, there and so often, did battle for the 
honor of Texas and for the independence of 



their country. Truly were they the fit repre- 
sentatives of the Lone Star State — the worthy 
successors of those who fell so gloriously at the 
Alamo, and who fought so brilliantly at San 
Jacinto. 

Theirs was a proud duty, and proudly was 
that duty performed. 

When they turned their faces homeward; a 
bare remnant of near 4,000 stalwart men, they 
brought with them, as a trophy, richer and more 
beautiful than ever victorious soldier placed in 
the hand of beauty, the consolation that they 
had faithfully and fearlessly responded to every 
call that had been made upon them. 

No danger had been so great as to make them 
afraid ; no privation so severe as to cause them 
to falter; and no adversity so bitter as to ren- 
der them despondent. 

From the beginning to the end of that great 
struggle — whether upon the advance or upon 
the retreat, amid the shock of battle or in the 
bivouac, naked or clad, barefoot or shod, parch- 
ed by summer heat or shivering beneatli 
the cold of an almost Northern winter, 
rejoicing in victory or defiant in defeat, 
they were, at all times and at all places, true to 
the troth which they had plighted — the favor- 
ites of Hood ; and Longstreet and Jackson and 
Lee never called to them in vain. 

Beginning at Eltham's Landing, they then and 
there entered upon that career of glory which 
they so gallantly followed through every peril 
and through every privation, until the coming 
of that hour when he, whom they loved so well, 
bade them fight no more. 

But, let us take a brief and hurried glance at 
some of the memorable scenes through which 
you were called upon to pass. 

Says Major-General Gustavns W. Smith, 
who commanded at Eltham's Landing, in his 
report of that affair: "All the troops engaged 
showed the finest spirit, were under perfect con- 
trol and behaved admirably. The brunt of the 
contest was borne by the Texans, and to tlieni 
is due the largest share of the day at Elthani." 
And we have it from a Federal general, that, 
had it not been for the enemy's gunboats, this 
would have been another Bull Run affair. 

Here the First Texas lost more than two- 
thirds of all who fell upon the Confederate side, 
among the killed being Lieutenant-Colonel 
Black. 

Though greatly superior in numbers, the 
enemy was driven to seek the protection of his 
gunboats, and the retirement of the Confeder- 
ates from Yorktown out of the Peninsula was 
safely accomplished. 

Their route led them along and close by a 
deep navigable river, filled with vessels of war. 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



gunboats and transports of the enemy, and con- 
nected with the line of march, at almost every 
mile, by good lateral roads leading to favorable 
landings." 

But this engagement, though important and 
successful, was but as a skirmish when com- 
pared with the heavy and sanguinary battles in 
which the brigade was to bear so prominent and 
so honorable a part. 

Eichmond was become an almost beleaguered 
city, and the Federal commander was concen- 
trating his troops preparatory to a general bat- 
tle, which, he confidently predicted, would re- 
sult in the abandonment of the capital. A dis- 
tance of only four miles intervened between the 
left wing of his army and the goal of his am- 
bition. But that distance he was destined never 
to pass. It is unnecessary for me to enter into 
details as to the engagement of May 31 and 
June 1, 1862, known as the battle of the Seven 
Pines. 

The brigade was placed in the left wing of 
the army. General Longstreet, who commanded 
upon the right, being in need of more troops — 
using the language of Major General Smith,, 
who was in charge of the left wing — the brigade 
moved, under orders and in double quick time, 
through the mud and water, underbrush, and 
other difficulties of the ground, to his assist- 
ance, driving in the advance pickets of the 
enemy upon their support, and taking and pass- 
ing their camp with scarcely a perceptible halt 
or notice, only anxious to find the enemy in 
force, who were still making resistance in front 
of Longstreet and Hill." 

"'But, dark coming on,'' says General Smith, 
"there is no reason to doubt that Hood's Bri- 
gade of Texans upon the right and Griffith'^ 
of Mississippians on the left, supported by the 
brigade of General Semmes, would have enabled 
us, in one more short hour of daylight, to drive 
the enemy into the swamps of the Chickahomi- 
ny. As it was, darkness compelled us to relin- 
quish an unfinished task, and the troops were 
withdrawn from the wooded swamp immediate- 
ly in contact with the enemy and bivouacked in 
the open field within musket range of their 
strong, defensive position." 

As at Eltham's Landing, so at the Seven 
Pines do we find the brigade in the front and 
eager to establish a repuhition for those high 
soldierly qualities, which they w'cre to so often 
and so abundantly demonstrate upon many a 
hard fought field before the final fall of the 
Confederacy. A most difficult and a most dan- 
gerous task it was to accomplish, but the char- 
acter of the task was well understood and fully 
appreciated, and every man, with scarcely an 
sxception, prepared himself to meet the issue. 



THE BATTLE OF GAINES FARM. 

We now come to a most critical period in the 
early history of the Confederacy. The Federals 
were moving upon the capital by slow approach- 
es, strongly and securely fortifying themselve> 
at every step of their advance. 

Excluding the troops of McDowell, which 
were in the valley, they who stood in close 
proximity to Eichmond and were imder Mc- 
Clellan's immediate command, numbered full 
one hundred and fifteen thousand fighting men, 
exceeding the Confederates opposed to them by 
about thirty-five thousand. To the practiced eye 
of Lee it appeared that something should be 
done, and that, too, quickly and effectually, if 
Eiclimond would be saved. 

The enemy's left was too strongly protected 
to be successfully assaulted, and with a skill 
not inferior to that of the great Xapoleon, he 
planned and executed a movement which led 
to the overwhelming defeat of the enemy, to the 
abandonment of the lines which he had been so 
long forming and so laboriously protecting by 
every device known to modern warfare, ending 
in a precipitate retreat, with heavy loss of men 
and munitions of war, to his gunboats upon the 
James. My purpose, however, is to call your 
attention to the conduct of the Texas Brigade 
on that great occasion. Great things were to be 
done ; let us see who did them. Attached to 
the immediate command of Jackson himself, the 
brigade bore its part, during the seven days' 
battle, in a manner worthy the reputation it 
had already achieved ; worthy the great state 
of whom it was the sole representative in that 
grand army; and worthy the illustrious soldier, 
\mder whose leadership it was, for the time 
being, placed. 

Desiring to avoid every appearance of exag- 
geration, and anxious to present the facts to 
you as they occurred, I shall speak to you in the 
language of the commanding general — Eobert 
E. Lee. 

In his report of the seven days" battle, he 
says : 

"His," (Longstreet's) "column was quickly 
formed near the open ground, and as his prep- 
arations were completed Jackson arrived, and 
his right division, that of Whiting, took posi- 
tion on the left of Longstreet. 

^* ****** * 

"The line being now complete, a general ad- 
vance from right to left was ordered. On the 
right the troops moved forward with steadiness, 
unchecked by the terrible fire from the triple 
lines of infantry on the hill, and the cannon on 
both sides of the river, which burst upon them 
as they emerged upon the plain. The dead and 
wounded marked the way of their intrepid ad- 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



261 



vance, the brave Texans leading, closely fol- 
lowed by their no less daring comrades. The 
enemy were driven from the ravine to the first 
line of breastworks, over which our impetuous 
column dashed up to the intrenchments on the 
crest. These w-ere quickly stormed, fourteen 
pieces of artillery captured, and the enemy driv- 
en into the field beyond. Fresh troops came to 
his support, and he endeavored repeatedly to 
rally, but in vain. He was forced back with 
great slaughter until he reached the woods on 
the banks of the Chickahominy, and night put 
an end to the pursuit. Long lines of dead and 
wounded marked each stand made by the ene- 
my in his stubborn resistance, and the field over 
which he retreated was strewn with the slain. 

"Our troops remained in undisturbed posses- 
sion of the field, covered with the Federal dead 
and wounded, and their broken forces fled to 
the river or wandered through the woods." 

And Brigadier-General Whiting, the division 
commander, thus graphically writes of his 
troops in this engagement: 

"The field where we entered it was about the 
head of the ravine, which covered the enemy's 
left near the main road, a deep and steep chasm 
dividing the bluffs of the Chickahominy. On 
the left side of this, as we fronted. General Hood 
put forward the First Texas and Hampton's 
Legion. Men were leaving the field in every 
direction and in great disorder; two regiments, 
one from South Carolina and one from Louisi- 
ana, were actually marching back from the fire. 
The First Texas was ordered to go over them 
or through them, which they did ; the remaining 
Texas regiments were rapidly advanced, forming 
line on the right of the ravine, and the Third 
Brigade on their right, and, pressing on, the 
whole line came under the enemy's fire. 

4c 3}; :(: * ^ * * 

"The Texans had now come up and joined 
line on the left, when the word was given to 
charge, and the whole line * * * charged 
the ravine with a yell. General Hood and Col- 
onel Law gallantly heading their men. At the 
bottom ran a deep and difficult branch, with 
scarped sides, answering admirably as a ditch. 
Over against this was a strong log breastwork, 
heavily manned ; above this, near the crest, an- 
other breastwork, supported by well-served bat- 
teries and a heavy force of infantry, the steep 
slope, clad with an open growth of timber, con- 
cealing the enemy, but affording full view of 
our movements. 

"Spite of these terrible obstacles, over ditch 
and breastwork, hills, batteries and infantry, the 
division swept, routing the enemy from their 
stronghold. 



''Many pieces of artillery were taken (four- 
teen in all) and nearly a whole regiment of the 
enemy. These prisoners were turned over by 
Col. J. B. Eobertson, Fifth Texas, to Brigadier- 
General Pryor, or some of his staff. The enemy 
continued to fight in retreat, with stubborn re- 
sistance, and it soon appeared that we had to 
do with his best troops. * * * * in the 
meantime my division continued steadily to ad- 
vance, though suffering terribly, until night 
found them completely across the plateau and 
beyond the battlefield. * * * The battle 
was very severe, hotly contested and gallantly 
won. I take pleasure in calling special atten- 
tion to the Fourth Texas regiment, which, led 
by Brigadier-General Hood, was the first to 
break the enemy's line and enter his works. Its 
brave old Colonel (Marshall) fell early in the 
charge, on the hither side of the ravine. The 
stubborn resistance maintained all the day fal- 
tered from that moment, and the day was gain- 
ed. * * * So closed the battle of Gaines' 
Mill, the troops sleeping on their arms in the 
position so hardly won." 

This is the testimony of Lee and of Whiting 
as to the severity of the battle, and as to the 
conduct of the Texas Brigade, and this testi- 
mony is upon record to be read and admired by 
all men. 

In this engagement the Fourth Texas enjoys 
the proud though melancholy distinction of 
having lost more men, killed and wounded, than 
any other regiment of the eighty thousand who 
fought beneath the Confederate banner in any 
of the seven days' battles. 

And here the career of the brigade might 
have ended, and the pages of history cease to 
bear witness to the unparalleled courage which 
it afterward displayed on many a stricken field, 
and yet its more than knightly bearing at 
Gaines' Farm, and just twenty-five years ago 
from this very day, would well entitle it to a 
place, side by side, with those heroes who have 
made themselves immortal, and whose deeds will 
dwell in the memory of man forever and for- 
ever. 

MANASSAS, AUGUST 29 AND 30, 1862. 

Active operations upon James river having 
been discontinued bv the enemy, it was thought 
that Eichmond could be best defended by au 
energetic campaign against General Pope, whose 
forces were upon the Rapidan, with General 
Jackson in close proximity. 

Longstreet's troops, among which was the 
Texas Brigade, were pushed forward to Jack- 
son's assistance. The two forces combined did 
not exceed 54,000 men, while the strength of 
the Federals, under Pope, was not less than 
73,000. 



262 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



By a series of movements, no less successful 
than skillful, Oeneral Lee forced the second 
battle of Manassas and almost destroyed his 
enemy, though there was another Federal army, 
equal in numbers to his own, near Alexandria 
and Washington, and within one day's forced 
march of the battlefield. These movements cul- 
minated in a general engagement with Pope on 
the jilaius of Manassas, which resulted in a 
complete victory for the Confederates. 

Here we again see the Texas Brigade fully 
maintaining the reputation it had already ac- 
quired. At a most critical moment LongstreetV- 
forces moved forward to a general attack, and, 
by their headlong courage, decided the issue. 
In his official report that general says : 

"My whole line was rushed forward at a 
charge. The troops sprang to their work and 
moved forward with all the steadiness and firm- 
ness that characterizes war-worn veterans. * 
* * * The attack was led by Hood's Bri- 
gade, closely supported by Evans. * * * * 
The attacking columns moved steadily forward, 
driving the enemy from his different positions 
as rapidly as he took them. * * * The bat- 
tle continued until 10 o'clock at night, when 
utter darkness put a stop to our progress. The 
enemy made his escape across Bull Run before 
daylight. Three batteries, a large number of 
prisoners, many stands of regimental colors, and 
12,000 stands of arms, besides wagons, ambu- 
lances, etc., were taken." 

In this engagement the Fifth Texas lost very 
heavily, indeed, its list of killed and wounded 
greatly exceeding that of any other regiment 
upon the Confederate side. 

GETTYSBURG. 

Whenever and wherever disaster follows in- 
stead of success, and especially if it be serious 
and unexpected, severe, and oftentimes unjust, 
criticism is awakened. With the policy and the 
result of this engagement, however, we have 
nothing to do today. 

It is only of the Texas Brigade that I would 
speak. From the most reliable authority wc 
learn that the strength of the Confederate army 
in the Gettysbug camjiaign at no time exceeded 
fifty-eight thousand, while the Federals in thu 
engagement at Gettyslnirg not only numbered 
fully ninety-five thousand, but acted entirely 
on the defensive, occupying almost impregnable 
positions. In the approach of the former to the 
field of battle the brigade was the rear one of 
Longstrcet's corps, but it was hurried forward 
in advance of those ahead to its designated place 
in the line of battle, which was upon the ex- 
treme right. As usual. Hood's Brigade led in 
the attpck. 



Of this assault. General Longstreet, than 
whom no more intrepid commander ever led sol- 
diers to battle, says: "Then was fairly com- 
menced what I do not hesitate to pronounce the 
best three hours' fighting ever done by any 
troops on any battlefield. Directly in front of 
us, occupying the peach orchard on a piece of 
elevated ground that General Lee desired me 
to take and hold for his artillery, was the third 
corps of the Federals, commanded by General 
Sickles. My men charged with great spirit and 
dislodged the Federals from the peach orchard 
with but little delay, though they fought stub- 
bornlv. We were then upon the crest of Semi- 
nary Ridge. The artillery was brought forward 
and put into position at the peach orchard. 

The infantry swept down the slope and soon 
reached the marshy ground that lay between 
Seminary and Cemetery ridges, fighting their 
way over every foot of ground and against over- 
whelming odds ; at every step we found that 
reinforcements were pouring into the Federals 
from every side. 

"Nothing could stop my men, however, and 
they commenced their heroic charge up the side 
of Cemetery Ridge. Our attack was to progress 
in the general direction of the Emmettsburg 
road, but the Federal troops, as they were forced 
from point to point, availing themselves of the 
stone fences and boulders near the mountain 
as rallying points, so anno}-ed our right flank 
that General Hood's division was obliged to 
make a partial change of front so as to relieve 
itself of this galling flank fire. 

"Still the battle continued to progress. The 
situation was a critical one. My coqjs had been 
fighting over an hour, having encountered and 
driven back line after line of the enemy. In 
front of them was a high and ragged ridge; on 
its crest the bidk of the army of the Potomac, 
numbering six to one, and securely resting be- 
hind strong positions. My brave fellows never 
hesitated, liowever. Their duty was in front of 
them and they met it. 

"They charged up the hill in splendid styb. 
sweeping everything before them, dislodging the 
enemy in the face of a withering fire. When 
they had fairly started up the second ridge, I 
discovered that they were suffering terribly 
from a fire that swept over their right and left 
flanks. I also found that my left flank was not 
protected by the brigades that were to move 
echelon with it. McLaw's line was consequently 
spread out to the left to protect its flank, and 
Hood's line was extended to the right to pro- 
tect its flank from the sweeping fire of the 
large bodies of troops that were posted on 
Round Top. 

"These two movements of extension so drew 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



263 



my forces out that I found myself attacking 
Cemetery Hill with a single line of battle 
against not less than fifty thousand troops. 

"My two divisions at that time were cut down 
to eight or nine thousand men, four thousand 
having been killed or wounded. 

"We felt at every stroke fresh troops — the 
sturdy regular blow that tells a soldier instantly 
that he has encountered reserves or reinforce- 
ments. We received no support at all, and there 
was no evidence of co-operation on any side. To 
urge my men forward under these circumstances 
would have been madness, and I withdrew them 
in good order to the peach orchard that we had 
taken from the Federals early in the afternoon. 

"Our men had no thought of retreat. They 
broke every line they encountered. When the 
order to withdraw was given a courier was sent 
to General Lee informing him of the result of 
the day's work. 

"I am satisfied that my force, numbering 
hardly thirteen thousand men, encountered dur- 
ing that three and one-half hours of bloody 
work not less than sixty-five thousand of the 
Federals, and yet their charge was not checked 
nor their line broken until we ordered them to 
withdraw. 

"General Meade himself testifies that the 
Third, the Second, the Fifth, the Sixth and th- 
Eleventh corps, all of the Twelfth corps, except 
one brigade, and a part of the First corps en- 
gaged my handful of heroes during that glori- 
ous but disastrous afternoon. 

"I found that night that 4,529 of the men, 
more than one-third of their total number, had 
been left on the field. History records no paral- 
lel to the fight made by these two divisions on 
July 2nd at Gettysburg." 

Such is the picture drawn by Loagstreet, the 
MacDonald of the Confederate army, of this 
terrible assault. And the picture is not over- 
drawn. Alas, it is only too true. Federal and 
Confederate alike speak of the fearful conflict 
and of its fearful terribleness. Even at this date 
the cheeks blanch and the heart refuses to pul- 
sate as the mind endeavors to take in the awful- 
ness of that bloody scene. 

And during that summer afternoon, amid the 
carnage of Seminary and Cemetery Eidges, 
where were those gallant Texans? What part 
did that small band of heroes play in the fear- 
ful drama that was being then enacted ? 

The roll was called that night, and fully one- 
half of those who had answered to their names 
in the morning of that day were laying, wound- 
ed or dead, upon the field. All honor to those 
who fought, to those who fell, to those who sur- 
vived. 

Cemetery and Seminary Ridges ! Field of 



Gettysburg! Of all who stood upon your crests 
— of all who climbed your rugged sides on that 
eventful day, none braver fought or died than 
they of Hood's Brigade. 

And who will write the story of that sum- 
mer afternoon? And who will sing its song? 

Nay ; tell it as you may. 
It never can be told. 
And sing it as you will. 
It never can be sung. 
Leader of the men in gray ! 
Chieftain — truest of the true — 
Write the story as you may. 
And you did ; but even you, 
With your pen, could never write 
Half the story of that day, 
And you have failed. 
As failed our men in gray. 

THE WILDERNESS. 

The lifeblood of the Confederacy was fast 
ebbing away. Everything that mortal man could 
conceive or do had been devised and performed. 
Our resources, in men and supplies, were rap- 
idly and steadily failing, while those of the 
enemy were being increased almost every hour. 
The official register of both armies shows that 
when the Battle of the Wilderness was fought, 
Grant had, under his immediate command, one 
hundred and forty-one thousand fighting men 
well drilled and abundantly provided with sup- 
plies of every character. To this formidable 
army, Lee stood opposed with an army of but 
sixty-three thousand, nine hundred and eighty- 
one men, and they almost exhausted by a con- 
tinuous struggle of nearly three years, and but 
poorly and scantily provided with provisions, 
clothing and munitions of war. Truly was the 
conflict unequal, but even here and under such 
untoward circumstances did the Confederate 
soldier maintain the reputation which he had 
already achieved. The Texas Brigade had re- 
turned from the bloody field of Chickamauga, 
and from the arduous campaign that followed, 
to the scene of its early operations and to their 
old commander. It had returned with fresh 
laurels added to the chaplet of fame, which it 
had garlanded for itself whenever and wherever 
it had been called into action. It still maintain- 
ed it« haughty bearing amidst all the misfor- 
tunes that were thickly clustering around and 
about the cause which it loved so well, and to 
which it had plighted its life, its fortune and 
its honor. And here again was it to demonstrate 
its just title to that renown which had become 
known to the whole civilized world. And it was 
here that evidence was to be furnished anew 
of its undying attachment to their great clnef- 
tain. bv an act whicji lias no parallel in the 



26i HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



niliarr >rr^ :: aar odier peof^ It vzH ^- - r~ t^— - • • ^mii^ aai lo^ half 

dovB n> hkroer K one of die BOEt peolii - i ^ded «■ fl Mt Woo dy *qf. 

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war. I eaa bet grre it to jtm in the laK^BSge <nww t-.i :« <rf tte o^t be- 

<rf aB ere-viiBesc — hb^adf a noes diftii^B^hed fwe.~ 

TBgiBiaii: — Wlsat a =ec9e hxve w liese? What 

'Lett's a^ WDeoirs Ariaaie <rf A. P. does it amjace Mp? 

TTilF s eoips beii^ hard ^KCssed fej ttlie ^Epenor Au^ dhe doee wo^ aad alnaat 

mnbcE of HaiKodfs eiKps, Gcnaal Lee «t tzaUe waAa^nmih ti the WSAeaes— 

ma. aide to hieieD ihe aai^ of IiiHs^^zeer ~ Mar woobb^ — WKoiat th& ^lOEk aod lonoc of 

drnsoiE. bottle — didl aad OJUsa^ aad gnpe, aad Ihe 

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bk-qm^ im poialki erians, ak^ Ihe pbidc gataai^. die te^ade ige pnag far fte cfa^e. 

road, the Tesje Brigade i»froBSLG«EndIiDi^ wnnTwdf al of fltadf, bwt eairfal <rf iig hdored 

street rode ioni»d wiA tkat iaqienanaHe esol- da^aJB— flie r^gd aayart »iA hfe h aad 

nee. ■^iiei al^rsTs d maiA e iia Ed hin in ones ^OR the mm <rf Ihe cimmimIib- ^soaL 

of ]:ierikH5 aetaoB. and be^aa to pat Achi ib po- Mj fmnds, vhea jado- capiioi ^all hai« 

stkn OB ihe i^n and Mt of Ae load. Hk be^ oi^ileiBd ia aD oa iis 'yleiidid pvopor- 

^en f»M» to die fniBt <^ distHdeied basde •ili tioBE — ^^Bifieent aad ■w i Aji of die gRafnes 

a steadiBes nBesnipled e«^ aaoi^ Ttfif ta m?v ol TeiK. ^ it «iD be — fet t«o thia;^ addilina- 

^id with an riaa ahidi pneaged lestoratiai <tf al nf^ be done to iasane the i ma p bli i i of 

oar battfe aad eenaia ncfeoxT. Ae aiiiAe — die one. a paiwtiiitg, diava hj a 

-TTim diev aiined. die bailed of Ae eaeBv^ JBKte- hasd, nn^ be hag ia a ma^ pnsai- 

OBoari«*taaBk had bcgaa to sweep die field aert plaee ^m lE waBs, lepraMtt^ I/ee si 

ia tlK iwr <^ d»e artiDerr pfe oa die fcfi rf ihe Wndmg sK. Tie oAet a fefiy ■isi^rzr-: 

die toad. wlKie Gcnesal IJee" w« gtiias diiee- <rf die {Mies nazUe— ^zadia^ ia tte frMU — 

tioK and as^d^ Genfsal Hin ia ralhi^ aad to be aem br afl Ma, ad iMcfcd dwreo* Ae 

TeSosmaag las troops *«^ '^^* BngaJe—Almmsfg mm O* Ad- 

^t «= here feat die iaadeat <h lers diaz«e rmmce." Fatare ^BentioK will ga*, wt& ib- 

^dii G^'csg'^ Texas Bc^ade oeeaned. Tlie ae»i^ d^^, mptm Aai paiwdag , xmd v: 

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tillen- pat aad lis adjacfflff taeastwojJs. seMC. TralT — 

'Of ad noted br the grpfiJag <rf diEe bare ^ ^^ 

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tiencb^ aad foao««d ^c»e « Aeir liae as it ^?^_™l™°.?il!L. ^ 

morcd lapidlj ^mid. Tie mem dad mat per- »*«« Ae dead <^ ihe «e: 
eeite Aat he vre soias viA tlie^ aatil ther 

had advaaced done disiaaee ia die ciaise; _ 

vhea dier did. Aere eaae ctom Ae eaiiie Ime. The safeis aie sh M Aed isi -st - - etc 
as ii rEeSsed <m. ^te «t: "G^. '^h-^ir r^---** !>#. 
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g»TI«ait Geaaaal Gr-rrr ~ - _ . ^_ _-^ _i€ 
OB die 9A^ Oct: - Geasal Ice's 
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sOTiKd wiA him. C*^ «^ -EiJMOwd ae ia haUae he ^:. 

^Jast diffl I eaDed his atimaca to Gaer*l Tie giay bearded na ia Ae t^A dtmA hai. 

j^jj^^^^__^- ^-. . _ v^ |j^ been seekiae. aad ■vhn 

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ness of the people — ^in whatever shall redound 
to the welfare of humanitr — as espressioB — 
full to the overflowing with the sentiment of 
high nobUitT — lofty courage — earnest devotion 
— and tmmffled patience! An expression made 
immortal by Hood's Brigade. 

But I must be done. And yet, how feebly 
have I executed the task assigned me on this 
occasion I An hundredth part of the wondrous 
story of Hood's Brigade has not been told. 

To others more competent than myself do I 
leave the bloody fields of Malvern Hill, Free- 
man's Ford, Boonsborough Gap, Sharpsburg, 
Chickamauga, Siege of Knoxville, Spottsyl- 
vania and Appomattox, at all of which you, 
survivors of Hood's Brigade, and your com- 
rades, did your duty, your full duty, and more 
than your full duty. You stood watch and 
guard around the cradle of the Confederacy, 
and you were present when it was consigned to 
the slumbers of eternal rest. 

You stood courageously and steadfastly be- 
neath the folds of its flag from the very hour 
of your enlistment until it ceased to be the em- 
blem of a people struggling for their independ- 
ence. In victory and in defeat, on the field and 
in the camp, amidst snow and ice, as beneath 
midsummer suns, in sickness and in health, you 
were at all times, and under every variety of 
circumstances, faithful, patient and brave. Of 
all who were with you, full four thousand, from 
first to last, only a handful survived the war. 
and fewer remaiu today. 

I rejoice to speak it — ^your c-ourse since the 
termination of that great conflict, in which 
yon played so conspicuous and so honorable s> 
part, has been worthy the loftiness of your mili- 
tary career. Xothing more can I say, here and 
now, than to c-ommend yon and yours, and those 
kindred who yet survive yotir dead comrades- 
in-arms, to the eternal keeping of Him who 
doeth all things well, and in the hollow of whose 
hands rest the destinies of nations as of indi- 
viduals. 

COSGRESSMAX (MAJOR W. H.) MAETIK. 

Major Martin, of Athens, Texas, the success- 
or to Judge Eeagan ia the fiftieth Congress, 
hasn't worn his newly won honors long enough 
for his old comrades to cease calling him "How- 
dy BUI," and it isn't very likely, to look at him. 
that he will ever care to have them do so. He is 
tall, angular and ugly, but he is brave, gallant, 
and shows in his face and in his homely but 
hearty manner, that he has a big heart inside of 
his vest buttons, and that he loves the men who 
fought '"long side of him for four years, there 
can be no doubt. When Gov. Lubbock intro- 
duc-ed Major Martin, there was a degree of ap- 
plause that would have been classed as a Texas 



yell, only the presence of the ladies softened 
the tones somewhat. Major Martin made no set 
speech, but he noted the dav as the anniversary 
of the fight at Gaines' Mill when ^klcClellan's 
line before Eiehmond was broken. He eulogized 
the memory of Hood, who was the idol of his 
c-ommand. and he said that the welcome to the 
survivors of the old brigade, this day given, was 
a tribute to the memory of their old commander 
and as such it was received and would be cher- 
ished. He dwelt upon incidents in the history 
of the old brigade. One, especially — when, at 4 
o'clock on the evening of the •27th of June. 
1862, Hood rode through the lines cheering 
his men and telling them that "we'll whip 'em. 
yet,'' (this in the heat of the battle). The men 
of this brigade were loved, he said, by Hood, 
Lee and Jackson, and all unite in saying that on 
that day Texas broke the line of the enemy and 
saved the capitol of the Confederacy. Texans 
went there representing the heroism of Goliad 
and the Alamo and to represent Texas, and the 
glorv that was won is freely given to Texas. 
The speaker then dwelt upon the battle of Get- 
tysburg, where, in the cotmcil of generals, held 
before the fight. Hood dissented from the others 
of Lee's commanders, and even asked permission 
of Lee to change the programme ; how he obey- 
ed the order of battle, and in the heat of the 
fight, when his arm was shot away, he cried: 
"1 have lost my arm and I will lose my brigade, 
which will hurt me most." As these words rang 
out Major Martin opened a bundle before him 
and drew out a faded military c-oat, one sleeve 
torn away, buttons off. and braids worn and 
tarnished. This was the coat that was worn by 
Hood at Gettysburg when the shot struck him 
that cut away his arm, and caused the heroic 
remark that has been given. The scene was a 
dramatic one. The old Confederate uniform, 
with its front splotched with blood stains and 
its missing sleeve giving mute evidence of the 
sacrifice that had been offered, caused the vet- 
erans to crowd around the platform. Tears fell 
from the eyes of gray-haired men, and they 
sacredlv touched the garment, some even kiss- 
ing it and clasping it to their breasts. It was a 
touching sight, bringing up. as it did, memories 
of a day that is sacred to them all. 

Major Martin closed with an eloquent eulo- 
gv upon the brave soldiers everywhere, and after 
displaying a relic of second Manassas in the 
shape of a Zouave cup, picked up on the Federal 
side of the field, gave wav for an announcement 
of— 

"Diyrs-ERV 

The order to march to the table was then 
given, and the crowd was brigaded as follows: 
Ladies with the old soldiers; the old soldiers 



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next; then latly visitors and lastly the general 
crowd. Throe long tables were stiread and 
there were 2,500 plates upon them. These were 
twice filled or nearly so and everybody, even 
to the smallest urchin on the ground, was given 
all that was demanded, and still there was left 
over the traditional twelve baskets, full of fine 
barbecued meat. If tliere was a person on the 
ground who failed of getting all to eat of that 
provided, it was not the fault of the managers. 
The food was there — there in abundance, well 
cooked and well provided. The order maintain- 
ed was excellent, thanks to the officers who at- 
tended to the matter. 

AFTER DINNER. 

Returning to the grand stand the band dis- 
coursed a number of airs for awhile, and Gov- 
ernor Eoss was then introduced. He spoke just 
in the manner to please the old soldiers, inter- 
larding his remarks with anecdotes and pleasant 
stories. The governor said : — 

Ladies, Comrades and Friends: — It would 
have suited me much better to have played the 
part of a listener, rather than a speaker, ujx)U 
this occasion. But I cannot refuse to express 
the gratification that it is my good fortune to 
be present at this grand annual reunion of these 
old veterans of Hood's Brigade, and join thij 
vast multitude, coming from every section of 
OUT state, giving themselves up to the spirit of 
the occasion with such hearty pleasure and en- 
ergy, which, together with the ample prepara- 
tions made of everything which a large heart- 
ed hospitality and unstinted generosity could 
suggest, to accord to you a joyous reception, 
conspire to fill our hearts with the most pleas- 
urable emotions, and funiish a presage and 
pledge of ricli social enjoyments. It was not my 
fortune to be a member of your grand old bri- 
gade, but in the delightful fellowship of these 
old Confederate^;, bound together by the mystic 
ties which trials engender, passing through the 
same ordeal, inspired by the same hopes, and 
animated by the same sentiments, I felt sure of 
meeting a look and grasping a hand which 
would respond in sympathy with my own. I re- 
joice to meet the remnant of this old brigade 
under such different circumstances, and sur- 
rounded by such favorable auspices, illustrating 
so forcibly the contrasts between the horrors 
of war and the sweets of peace. When old com- 
rades in arms have come up from their peace- 
ful homes with buoyant feeling and pulse-stir- 
ring anticipations to recite to each other the 
vivid and heart-thrilling incidents of the strug- 
gle, while these people animated by the auspices 
of your fame, have gathered here to greet your 
presence i-nd joy in it liy extending you a fit 



and noble welcome, and thus refute an unjust 
imputation that rejiublics are always ungrate- 
ful to their benefactors, it would be strange, in- 
deed, if this gathering of the old Confederate 
clans did not send our thoughts trooping back 
along the vanished years, recalling a long se- 
ries of brilliant exploits, wild adventures bv day 
and by night, and a generous unwavering ardor 
that never found any peril too hazardous nor 
any suffering too unendurable in the toil and 
watch of that wonderful and memorable con- 
flict in which giants were struggling for the 
mastery. 

But few of you are here today. The great ma- 
jority of your old comrades fill unknown graves, 
with naugl)t to mark their silent resting places, 
but their names are embalmed in as many lov- 
ing hearts as ever entwined around living or 
lingered around the graves of deceased patriots. 
And today, as our memory recalls face after 
face of this vast spectral army who have pre- 
ceded us in the line of march to the silent shores, 
we shed the tear of affectionate remembrance 
as we echo praises to their memory and honor 
to their dust. 

Throughout the broad area of the world there 
never was a field more rich in facts which con- 
stitute the fibre of an earnest active patrio*^ism 
than that found in the .Southern struggle. 

And the lofty adnuration in which the man- 
hood, valor and endurance, as well as the sub- 
lime resignation with which you accepted disap- 
pointment after great hopes and greater ef- 
forts, is held all over the world, shows how 
much the world yet values true and brave men, 
who could shake off these troubles as great as 
they were, as easily as the strong man .shakes 
the snowflakes from his locks, and by lieroic 
efforts in time of peace, no less renowned than 
in war — make them to an impoverished coun- 
try, but as flaxen withes bound around a slum- 
bering giant. Wliat wonder the world has stood 
amazed at the persistent vitality of our people, 
a persistency only equaled by the grand results. 
For, under your admirable conduct, every bar- 
rier to the flow of capital, or check to the de- 
velopment of our unbounded resources was re- 
moved. 

And we see here today a free and independent 
mingling of men from every section of our 
broad domain, all prejudices of the past forgot- 
ten, and, while our state has been fortunate in 
acquiring thousands of those who fought against 
us, and who are an honor, both to the states 
which gave them birth, and ours, which they 
have made their home, it matters not whence 
they come, they can exult in the reflection that 
our country is the same, and they find floating 
liere tlie same banner that waved above them 



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267 



there, with its broad folds unreut sind it? l)riglu 
stars unobscured, and in its defense, if needs be, 
the twords of those old Confederates so recentlv 
sheathed would leap forth with equal alacrity 
with those of the North. 

No nobler emotion can fill the breast of any 
man than that which prompts him to utter 
honest praise of an adversary whose convictions 
and opinions are at war with his own, and 
where is there a Confederate soldier in our 
land who has not felt a thrill of generous ad- 
miration and applause for the pre-eminent he- 
roism of the gallant Federal admiral, who lash- 
ed himself to the mainmast, while the tattered 
sails and frayed cordage of tlie vessel was being 
shot away by piecemeals above his head, and 
slowly but surely, picked his way through sunk- 
en reefs of torpedoes, whose destructive powers 
consigned many of his reckless comrades to a 
watery grave. The fame of such men as Farra- 
gut, Stanly, Hood, Lee, and the hundreds of 
private soldiers who were the true heroes of the 
war, belong to no time or section, but are the 
common property of mankind. They were all 
cast in the same grand mould of self-sacrificing 
patriotism, and I intend to teach my children 
to revere their names as long as the love of 
country is respected as a noble sentiment in the 
human breast. It is a remarkable fact that those 
who bore the brunt of the battles were the first 
to forget the old animosities, and relegate to 
oblivion obsolete issues. They saw that nothing 
but sorrow and shame, and the loss of the re- 
spect of the w^orld was to be gained by perpet- 
uating the bitterness of past strife, and, im- 
pelled by a spirit of patriotism, they were will- 
ing, by all possible methods, to create and give 
utterance to a public sentiment which would 
best conserve our common institutions and re- 
store that fraternal concord in which the war 
of the revolution left us and the Federal consti- 
tution found us. And I emphasize the declara- 
tion that, in most instances, those whose hatred 
has remained implacable through all these years 
of peace, are men who held high carnival in 
the rear, and snored louder in bed at home than 
they shouted on the battlefield for their coun- 
try, and after all danger had passed emerged 
from their hiding places in a chronic state of 
wolfishness, and, filled with ferocious zeal and 
courage, and blind to every principle of wise 
statesmanship, seek to make amends for their 
lack of deeds of valor by preaching a crusade of 



bitterness while pressing to their lips the sweet 
cup of revenge for whose intoxicating contents 
our country has already paid a price that would 
have purchased the goblet of the Egyptian 
queen. 

In view of the efforts made by these ladies 
for your entertainment here today, and with a 
lively memory of their heroic devotion to the 
cause for which their loved ones contended, I 
cannot refrain from thanking them, in the 
name of these old soldiers for honoring this oc- 
casion with their presence. We all feel deeply 
grateful to them for their efforts to make this 
reunion one which will fill the surviving mem- 
bers of Hood's Brigade with a store of pleasant 
memories not soon to be forgotten. 

It is not surprising that they should feel so 
patriotic, when we consider that ours was the 
first government on earth to bestow upon wo- 
man universal freedom, and to break down the 
bars of prejudice and wdden her avenues of use- 
fulness by opening up to her the privileges of 
honorable competition in every profession and 
avocation suited to her sex. Deep down in the 
core of the human heart is the love of home, 
and she is the very soul and life, and we hope 
never to see them elbowing a passage amid slang 
and slander, as common runners upon political 
fields for its honors and emoluments. The wo- 
men of France tried it once, and brought eter- 
nal shame upon their sex. Unsexed and fierce 
they sprang out of absolute subjugation into 
riot, rapine and bloodthirstiness, shaming the 
coarsest men by their unbridled excesses, and 
while singing peans to liberty they trampled 
all human rights under foot, and scattered mis- 
ery and woe with a lavish hand into peaceful 
homes, and all history shows that whenever they 
throw aside the beautiful endearments of home 
life and enter the arena of politics, they dig n 
gulf between themselves and the blessedness of 
womanhood which can never be repassed. 

GOVERNOR 0. M. ROBERTS. 

Ex-Governor 0. M. Roberts was next intro- 
duced by Major Burns and made a brief speech. 
purely complimentary, which he closed by in- 
viting the members of the brigade to attend 
the reunion of the soldiers of Walker's division 
on the first of October next. 

GOVERNOR F. R. L/UBBOCK. 

Hon. F. II. Lubbock was next introduced and 
made a handsome speech, in which he distrib- 
uted compliments equally between the ladies 
and the old soldiers. General Wm. P. Harde- 
man and General John G. Walker were called 
for, and responded with brief remarks. This 
closed the speech making features of the day. 



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TOO YOUNG TO DIE. 

BY JOHN B. SMITH. 

(Anion X tlie killcil v.as a boautifiil Con- 
federate boy, apparently not more than fifteen 
years of age.) 

On the hard-fought field, where the battle 
.storm 

Had echoed its sullen thunder, 
Lay a soldier-child, with the golden thread 

Of his young life snapped asunder. 

He had comrades stark, in the great death- 
sleep, 
Lying cold in their bloody places ; 
But they were bearded men with stalwart 
frames, 
And man's look on their faces. 

But this soldier-child, with his silken locks 
0"or his smooth, white forehcnd sweei'lna. 

With a horrid wound in his brave young breast 
Seemed too fair for Death's grim keeping. 

For his beardless face, in its calm repose, 
Bore the mark of Beauty's finger. 

And his fine sweet mouth seemed the tempting 
spot 
Where a woman's lips might linger. 

Like slender shadows on fleecy snow, 
O'er his cheek crept the fringing lashes 

Of the white closed lids of his great dark eyes. 
All veined with faint, azure flashes. 

O'er the wounded breast, with a touching grace. 

His delicate hands were folded, 
With a meek soft clasp, as if for a prayer 

Their dying shape was moulded. 

I thought, as beside this warrior child 
Mine own young head was bending, 

That perhaps an angel mother's prayers 
Were heavenward then ascending. 

That the arm of the Father, who dwelleth 
where 

Sweet peace is never-ending. 
Might be found in the battle's dreaded hour 

Her darling boy defending. 

I thought how the voice of the false-faced worhj 
Would waft her the mournful story. 

With its pompous words for a healing balm. 
And its mocking meed of glory. 

But that mother's breast with its hopeless 
grief 

And its mighty pain is aching; 
The cliaijlet of fame is a withered wreath. 

When a mother's heart is breaking. 



GENERAL WM. R. HAMBY. 



General Wm. Iiobert Hamby, Austin, 
Texas, the genial and able President of the 
Citizens' Bank and Trust Company, was born 
in Paris, Tennessee, July 24th, 1845. His 
parents were Eobert J. and Louise V. Hamby — 
and he their only child. 

When eight years of age his father died, and 
himself and mother moved to Austin, Texas. 
When only sixteen years of age he left school 
and joined Company B, Fourth Eegimeut of 
Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia, and became a soldier of the Confederate 
States. He made a good soldier, faithful to 
every duty ; was badly wounded at second Man- 
assas. 

After Appomattox, Wm. E. Hamby entered 
Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennes- 
see. Finishing the university he embarked in 
journalism in Tennessee and was a charter 
member of the Tennessee Press Association. 

He was a Democratic Presidential elector for 
the Eighth Congressional District. He also 
served two terms as Adjutant General of the 
State of Tennessee and originated the first com- 
petitive military drill held in the South after 
the war. 

In 1882 General Hamby returned to Texas, 
and in 1888 was handsomely elected to the 
State Legislature, and w-as the originator of 
many wise and judicious laws. Eecognizing 
his superior ability, the Speaker named Gen- 
eral Hamby as chairman of the Committee on 
Military Affairs. 

General Hamby has just retired from the ex- 
alted position of President of Hood's Texas 
Brigade Association, which he filled with honor 
to himself and credit to his comrades. He was 
a member, as well as treasurer, of Hood's Texas 
Brigade Monument Committee, which has just 
ended its labors through erection of a magnifi- 
cent monument to the brigade on cnpitol 
grounds at Austin. General Hamby rose to 
rank of Captain during the war and while Ad- 
jutant General of Tennessee the Khedive of 
Egypt offered him a colonelcy in the Egyptian 
army, which his desire to return to Texas 
caused him to refuse. General Ilamby stands 
high among his comrades of Hood's Texas 
Brigade as a true comrade, and his position in 
State financial circles is an enviable one. He 
is hale and hearty and proves in step and mien 
that the living of an honored and exemplary 
life is the surest road to all the best gifts o'' an 
all-wise Creator. 




GENERAL W. R. HAAIBY 

Company B., Fourth Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. 
President Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Austin, Texas. Treasurer 
Hood's Texas Brigade Monument Committee. Past Presi- 
dent Hood's Texas Brigade Association 



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DR. J. C. JONES, 
SURGEON HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 

BY DK. S. 0. TOUXG. 

On January 25, in the midst of those whom 
he loved best, after a brief illness. Dr. J. C. 
Jones passed peacefully and quietly away at 
his home in Gonzales, Tex. He was bom in 
Lawrence County, Ala., March 13, 1837; and 
came to Texas with his parents in 1856 and lo- 
cated at San Antonio. He received his literary 
education at La Grange College, Alabama, 
taking the degree of A. M. He began the study 
of medicine soon after settling in Texas, and 
after a preliminary course of reading went to 
Scotland and entered the LTniversity of Edin- 
burgh. Here he remained four years, taking 
the degree of M. D. in 1860. The university 
was then in the zenith of its fame, and num- 
bered among its officers Sir William Gladstone 
and Lord Brougham ; in surgery, Sir James 
Syne and Sir James Simpson. From the latter 
he held a special diploma in obstetrics. He 
also took a special course in surgical pathology 
and operative surgery under Sir Joseph Lis- 
ter. 

After graduating at Edinburgh he went to 
Dublin, and was appointed resident student in 
the Eotunda Hospital, one of the most exten- 
sive and renowned maternity institutions in 
Europe. While there he attended the clinics 
of Stokes and Corrigan, and also the eve clinic - 
of the talented Sir William Wilde — Oscar 
Wilde's father. From Dublin he went to Lon- 
don and took the surgical course of Ferguson, 
Exichson, and Paget; also attending the eye 
clinics of Bowman and Critchett at Moorfield 
Ej'e Hospital. From London he went to Paris 
and continued his studies in the hospital under 
Velpeau, Nilaton, Jobert, Trosseau, and Cas- 
saignac. 

At the beginning of hostilities in this coun- 
try, in 1861, he returned to the United States, 
and was, on the personal recommendation of 
President Jefferson Davis, assigned to duty in 
the Army of Northern Virginia and served as 
surgeon of the Fourth Texas Regiment, in the 
famous Hood's Brigade, until the surrender at 
Appomattox. He attended the hrigai'e m nil 
its numerous battles and skirmishes without a 
day's absence. 

At the close of the war he returned to Texas 
(1865), and located at Gonzales. Here he con- 
tinuously resided and practiced medicine ever 
afterwards. He served on all the examining 
boards of the judicial district in which he re- 
sided. He was a member of the Texas State 
Board of Health, a member of the Texas State 
Medical Association, and was an ex-Vice-Pres- 



ident of that body, of the American Medical 
Association, and of tlie Ninth International 
Medical Congress. 

Dr. Jones was married in 1867 to Miss Mary 
Ivennon Crisp, daughter of Dr. John H. Crisp, 
of Columbus, Tex. The five children — three 
sons and two daughters — are : S. P. Jones, Mrs. 
R. S. Dilworth, John C. Jones, Miss Kennon 
.Jones, and Robert Elliott Jones. Dr. Jones 
contributed some valuable papers to the Texas 
State Medical Association. Dr. .Tones h:id Ion : 
been connected with the Church, and was one 
of the vestrymen in the Church of the Messiah 
at Gonzales. 

As a member of Camp J. C. G. Key, Confed- 
erate Veterans, he never missed a meeting of 
the old veterans, unless prevented by profes- 
sional duties. He attended a number of the 
general reunions, and always, on those occa- 
sions, wore a suit of Confederate gray. 

The foregoing records that Texas lost one of 
her most eminent citizens, one of her most ac- 
complished scholars, one of her most distin- 
guished physicians, but that is all. It says noth- 
ing of what a loyal-hearted comrade he was, 
nothing of the true friend, nothing of his good 
works, nor of his self-sacrificing Christian 
charities. His life was a beautiful one, and it is 
hard to realize that God in His infinite wisdom 
has deemed it best to bring it to a close. 

It has been said that he is blessed who 
maketh two blades of grass to grow where one 
blade grew before. This being true of him, 
who adds only to the physical good of man- 
kind, how infinitely more blessed is he who 
goes through life with willing hand out- 
stretched to raise and help his fellow-men, 
eager to guide the faltering footsteps of his 
weaker brothers from thorny paths to pleasant 
fields, from the tempest-tossed seas of life to 
the calms of peace and serenity. To attain 
such blessing one must possess qualities of 
heart, mind, and soul given to but few men. 
Yet we know that there are such lives, and 
wlien we come in contact with them we instinct- 
ively regard them as beacon lights to guide to 
higher and nobler things and realize in its com- 
pletest sense the truth of the Biblical state- 
•nent that "God created man after his own 
image," for truly there is much of the divine in 
the performance of one's whole duty to God 
and to one's fellow-man. 

Such was the life of Dr. J. C. Jones. Few 
men were better equipped for the duties of life 
than he, and fewer still had it given them to 
extend so long a life of usefulness over so broad 
a field. As a physician, as a soldier, as a cit- 
izen, and as an earnest and faithful disciple 
of the lowly Jesus, his field was large, and yet 



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tlie most critical scrutiny of liis life fails to re- 
veal a flaw. He met all of life's duties, ami 
when the final summons came it found him pre- 
pared — without fear and without reproach. 

His life was so full of grandeur and beauty 
that one scarcely iaiows which of its phases 
most to admire — the quiet, earnest conversa- 
tion of the polished scholar ; the skill of the sur- 
geon on the field of battle performing his 
duties amid the bursting shells and whistling 
Minie balls with as much delicacy and preci- 
sion and as coolly as if he were in the operating 
room of a private hospital; the peaceful physi- 
cian among his friends and neighbors, loved 
and respected by all; or tlie earnest, helpful 
Christian who so let his light sliine that others 
might see and follow in his footste, s to nobler 
things. His life was full of opportunity. He 
had many widely diverging duties placed be- 
fore him, and he met them willingly, uncom- 
plainingly, and performed them all. 

Had he possessed worldly ambition, bad he 
been less pure-hearted, less earnest in his life- 
work, there are no exalted honors to which he 
might not have aspired. He was superbly 
equipped intellectually for aught he might have 
undertaken. Few physicians are so well quali- 
fied for their noble calling as was he, few schol- 
ars so deeply read, and few men have a deeper 
or keener knowledge of their fellow-men than 
lie. He thought not of himself, however; sellisli 
ambition had not a place in his composition. 

He attained eminence in his profession with 
all its concurrent honors, but those honors came 
unsought, and he cared little for them. His 
great skill as a jihysician, his wonderful influ- 
ence for good over his fellow-men he reganlel 
in a light of sacred trusts placed in his hands 
for the benefit of others, and not as instruments 
to be used for his own aggrandizement. 

The world is better from Dr. Jones having 
lived, for he belonged to that type of men from 
whose great hearts all fears and doubts have 
been driven by an overwhelming love for their 
fellow-men, leaving naught but exceeding peace 
behind. It was such a man Leigh Hunt had in 
mind when he wrote : 

"Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) 
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace 
And saw within the moonlight in his room, 
Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, 
An angel writing in a book of gold : 
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold. 
And to the presence in the room he said, 
'What writest thou?' The vision raised its heal 
And with a look made of all sweet accord. 
Answered, 'The names of those who love the 
Lord.' 



'And is mine one?' said Abou. 'Nay, not so,' 
Replied the angel. Abou spake more low, 
But cheerily still, and said, 'I pray thee, then, 
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.' 
The angel wrote and vanished. The next night 
It came again with a great wakening light, 
And showed the names whom love of God had 

blessed. 
And, lo ! Bed Adhem's name led all the rest."' 



DR. J. C. JONES, 
SURGEON HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 

BY GEN. J. B. POLLET. 

"When he came to our camp, in October, 
1861, w^e young fellows thought we had fallen 
. n hard lines, to be commanded by a tyrannical 
martinet from the old army and to be doctored 
and sawed and carved by an old grandma like 
our surgeon or as callow and verdant a strip- 
ling as Dr. Jones then looked. H took but lit- 
tle time, though, for Hood to gain our love and 
admiration, and longer for Jones to do so. But 
when, at Gaines" Mill, June 27. ISC'i, tlir 
Fourth Texas were making the charge which 
broke the enemy's lines and our men were 
dropping dead or wounded at every step of the 
way, those of us who cast a glance backward 
could always see the young assistant surgeon 
following close in tbe rear of the line, here and 
fhere halting to bind up a wound or administer 
a stimulant. Then we began to love and re- 
spect him ; for, lacking the incentive of the 
private or officer, he vet risked every I'anirer v,-e 
encountered. As we came to know him better 
and to learn of his reniarkalile skill as a sur- 
geon, our respect continued to grow. 

"Dr. Jones was one surgeon of the Confed- 
erate army who was always at his post, never 
absent from a battle and never failing to fol- 
low close in the rear of the regiment and per- 
form his duty. Xo danger appalled him. and 
in the deadliest heat of the conflict he would 
kneel as calmly and coolly by the side of a 
wounded man and administer to his needs as 
though he were a hundred miles from danger. 
Always good-humored, never sparing labor or 
time to funish relief wliere it was possible. T 
doubt if he had his equal in devotion to duty 
in the army. In my recollection he was never 
absent a single night from the command, and 
no matter what the temptation in the matter of 
grub or good company, stayed in camp or 
right on the line of march and took potluck 
with the l)oys without grumbling. 

Modest, unassuming, and rather reserved, he 
was yet a very companional)le comrade. Truck- 
ling to no officialism and never self-seek ins, bis 



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advancement was slower than, considering his 
abilities, it should have been. Yet, although 
he served for nearly two years as a sub to polit- 
ically appointed surgeons, he made no com- 
plaint, feeling, doubtless, that he could accom- 
plish more good down on the ground floor next 
to the private who did the real fighting than if 
placed in a higher position. His was not a gal- 
lantly inspired by the e.xcitement of battle or 
the desire for distinction, but it was of that 
character which saved life and sent many a 
poor fellow home who might otherwise have 
filled a shallow grave. The best that can be 
said of any man is that he was true to his 



country, his friends, and his profession — all 
that and more may justly be said of Dr. J. C. 
Jones. Never ashamed of his Confederate rec- 
ord, he was generally on hand at all meetings 
of the Hood's Brigade Association to talk with 
his old comrades of the past. A zealous mem- 
ber of the United Confederate Veteran Asso- 
ciation, he held the position of Division Sur- 
geon of the Texas Division under three admin- 
istrations. A master of his profession and a 
law-abiding citizen, he had a large practice, and 
was held in the highest esteem by all who met 
him. Peace to his ashes, and may we all meet 
him in the grand reunion of the hereafter !" 



REUNION AT WACO, JUNE 27, 1889. 



DECORATIONS AND MOTTOES. 

The great chamber of the citv hall kindlv 
tendered by a vote of the city coimeii wa-^ taste 
fully decorated with flowers and bunting. Con- 
federate, national and battle flags w<^re hang- 
ing all around the walls. A beautiful design, 
conspicuous on the rear wall, behind the plat- 
form, was a harp made of flowers indited to the 
memory of W. T. Ford of the Fourth Texas. 
Among the mottoes were the following: 

Jefferson Davis; history irill vindimte his 
integrity. 

John B. Hood; peace to his ashe>i and gion/ 
to his name. 

Hood's Brigade; ten thousanil times wel- 
come. 

The cruel tvar is over! 

Long live Beauregard and all our comrades! 

Bohert E. Lee; let his great n^nne be hon- 
ored, while time continues. 

Stonewall Jaclson, the Christilan. soldier; 
may he rest in peace as well as aV our com- 
rades, on the other shore, under the shade of 
those bemttiful trees! 

The old battle flag of Hood's Fifth Texas 
Regiment, brought forward by its gallant com- 
manding officer. Colonel R. M. Powell, with its 
147 bullet holes, received in thirty-two battles, 
was hanging beneath the Robert E. Lee legend 
quoted above. 

The soldiers of all the states remember the 
old flag. It fluttered beneath the star of vic- 
tory at Williamsburg. It twinkled in the tem- 
pest of death on the Rapidan ; its folds were 



foremost at Fredericksburg; it waved on the 
.Tames, and was the palladium in the valley of 
the Rappahannock ; it hung the vraisemblance 
— a history of death and truth. When the old 
soldiers gazed ujion it they recollected forgotten 
things. Smoke appeared to ascend from the 
faded and tatter;'d banner, aiul the sound of 
musketry and cannon came faintly like the 
dream of an echo heard in a tomb. 

In front of the platform were pictures of 
the heroes of the Confederate army, and over 
the room brooded the spirits of Lee, Jackson. 
Hood and the rest. Where sucli flags flutter 
Lee and Jackson and Hood will come, until the 
Eternal Tnimjieter has marshaled their souls 
rm the camping grounds in Paradise and they 
can count all their comrades — until all shall 
answer "here" to Death. 

Gen. J. B. Robertson introduced e.x-Gover- 
nor Throckmorton, who spoke about an hour. 
The speaker said in view of the gravity of the 
task and solemnity of the duty and the dan- 
gers of misrepresentations he would brieflv re- 
capitulate the history of the soldiers whose 
deeds had made their own lives and their coim- 
try sublime. He dwelt upon the newness of 
tiie government of the Southern Confederacy, 
its imrecognized loneliness, its length of s?a- 
shore, its untold weaknesses and its giant 
strength derived from the naked, unsupported 
devotion, bravery and fortitude of its people — 
men and women. All the combined armies of 
the North perfectly equipped, supplied from 
factories and fields with all that was necessary 
for war found in Lee a matchless foe, audacious 
and skilled in war. Time and time again Lee 
hurled the armies of the North back across the 
Potomac. Lee had been stamped as one of the 
great captains of the age ; the losses he inflicted 



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ou the enemy were unparalleled in view of the 
disparity of the forces opposed, the preponder- 
ance so greatly favoring the Federals. He re- 
ferred to the order of Geueal Lee to General 
D. H. Hill, which fell into the hands of Gen- 
eral Meclellan and totally and suddenly modi- 
fied the Maryland campaign of 1862, precip- 
itating the engagements at Antietam and at 
South Mountain. He reviewed Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, the latter rendered a 
catastrophe by the death of Stonewall Jackson 
— changed from joy to sorrow by that awful 
calamity. Governor Throclkmo'rtpni gave a 
cyclorama, so to speak, of the battles in Vir- 
ginia, ending his exordial with an account of 
the last scenes between Petersburg and Appo- 
mattox. He then gave a brief account of 
Hood's Brigade, which began with Lee in the 
morning of the strife, and only halted when 
war had been rocked to sleep in the cradle of 
death. The trophies of the brigade won in 
battle would have made a Eoman triumph. He 
eloquently told of a charge of Hood's Brigade 
where half of the Fourth Texas fell and the re- 
mark of Stonewall Jackson next day: "Here, 
indeed, were soldiers." He told of the second 
battle of Manassas, when Colonel Robertson 
was wounded and other distinguished officers 
wounded or killed. Hood's men did not confine 
their fighting to shooting, but used their bay- 
onets and carried strong positions with the 
sharp points of those bayonets. Eloquently 
he told of the sufferings and terrible fighting of 
Hood's men which gave to Hood his commis- 
sion as Major General and ])laced Colonel J. B. 
Eobertson in command of the brigade, as brig- 
adier — a gallant successor of a gallant prede- 
cessor. He told of the historical incident of 
Hood's Texans seizing the bridle of General 
Lee's horse and holding him back from the 
breach, when the commander-in-chief would 
have ridden into the jaws of death, at the 
awful Golgotha — the battle of the Wilderness. 
Painters have depicted the scene ; poets have 
sung it, the historic muse has inscribed it on 
her brightest page and the sculptor had com- 
memorated that magnificent incident of war. 
In his peroration Governor Throckmorton eulo- 
gized the Fnion soldiers whom the Confeder- 
ates found to be foemon worthy of their steel. 
Memories that cluster around the dead teach 
the living to dwell in harmony, a single nation 
and a single flag. The speaker, tearfully and 
with a voice subdued by emotion, appealed for 
State aid for the surviving soldiers who fol- 
lowed Lee. Few, he said, of the Mexican war 
survive; few of those of 1812 ; none of the Rev- 
olutionary heroes; let then the State provide 
for its latest heroes, and their children. (Loud 



applause.) Unworthy would those people be 
who, succeeded to the honors Fannin and 
Crockett left if they shall neglect the Confed- 
erate veterans who returned from war to deso- 
lated homes. To this portion of the address 
attention was almost painful and tears fell 
plentifully. The speaker hoped that harmony 
and peace will bless a reunited people and that 
every mourning heart would receive the Com- 
forter. Eternal devotion and loyalty to the 
common country, to the union of states. 

Dr. Carroll's address was now announced 
and the famous pidpit orator, who had not been 
put down for a speech but was equal to the oc- 
casion, arose. 

The speaker had recently stood upon the bat- 
tlefield of Gaines' Mill, and had heard in fancy 
the crash and tumult of war and the groans of 
the dying mingled with the echoes of the shout- 
ing squadrons rushing to the charge. He had 
never before stood upon Virginia soil, but he 
felt he had a claim to Virginia sympathy in 
view of Texans' blood shed at Gaines' Mill. 
Wliile the Chickahominy flows through the 
shadows of its cypress trees, wliik' Gettysburr's 
heights stand, while the Rappahannock rolls to 
the Chesapeake, Texas will be remembered in 
all the valleys of Virginia. The present Vir- 
ginians do not all distinctly remember the war. 
Some of the j'oung Virginians only know of 
the war historically. But the veterans of Vir- 
ginia know how Texans fought. Let the South 
write its own history. Let the South write its 
poetry. Of the 5,000 men who went into the 
war with Hood's Brigade, 278 are living — less 
than a hundred are here tonight ; before all are 
gone; before the last man is called by the final 
tattoo and sink>< to rest, let e:K'h hand to the 
Historic Muse a note of personal experience to 
hand down to posterity, by which the coming 
ages will remember the deeds their fathers did. 
Buy the books of Davis, Stephens, Cook, Beau- 
regard, Johnson, and all those who wrote in 
the light of personal knowledge — who had 
faced the facts. South Carolinians, Georgians, 
men of Alabama — of all the states of the 
South — should teach their children the truth 
concerning the war. A day will come when the 
last man of Hood's Brigade will hold with him- 
seld a reunion. Around him will be ghosts, 
about him the valley and the .shadow of death. 
He will hear no music, no shouts, no speeches, 
no cheers. He will stand in a forest of monu- 
ments and read on every hand an epitaph. But 
in the solitary review the lone survivor will be 
cheered, for he will know that he is the only 
living soldier left of a matchless legion who 
once fought as sons of freedom fight, without 
fear. 



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Dr. Carroll was followed by Uncle Frank 
Lubbock, who delivered a stirring address. He 
wore the badge, he said, because it had been 
given him by those whose privilege it was to 
confer the honor and reflect the dignity. Ex- 
Governor Lubbock's administration took in the 
war period; in fact, he was the war Governor. 
He told of the hurrying forward to the muster- 
ing places by Texans, and said the old and the 
young men went to the war, and some of the 
girls. The Governor said all of the Texas sol- 
diers were good, some were better and a few 
were best ; some interfered witli horse prop- 
erty and molested bee hives; some entered gar- 
dens through a gap in the palings, but all 
fought and very few ever aot sick. They over- 
came green melons and the enemy the same 
day and rode forward to charge batteries and 
sabre gunners on horses that had in some in- 
stances been surreptitiously borrowed ; where 



Mars raged, death reigned, Texans ranged, and 
wherever carnage was thickest Texans were 
most forward, dying with a joke on their lips, 
as ready to die as to live. The speaker referred 
feelingly and eloquently to Jefl'ersnu Davis, 
still living, lie s^joke of (ienerr.l Lee'j re-iiark: 
"If I had 20,000 Texans I need not retreat." 
Governor Lubbock is a prehistoric rose still 
blooming, fresh as the Dew of Hermon. He 
said he went into the war late hoping to Find ;i 
sick Yankee on whom he might wreak the ven- 
geance of his bosom, but they all were healthy 
enough to keep out of his way. He hunted 
Indians in 1830 in Texas, but the Indians 
heard he was coming and fled. He shot Buffalo 
on the site of Waco in antiquity after he had 
floated into Texas on a broad-horn raft down 
the Mississippi Eiver. He gave a highly in- 
teresting picture of the past, a glorious review 
of its achievements and its future. 



REUNION AT GALVESTON, JUNE 27, 1901. 

Following Year After Great Storm, Galveston Entertains Brigade, 
Same as if Nothing had Happened. 



Hood's Texas Brigade meets in Galveston to- 
day for the second time in the history of the or- 
ganization. The previous meeting was held 
May 7, 1874, and was the third reunion in the 
history of the organization. The first and sec- 
ond reunions were held in Houston. It was not 
until 1877 that the brigade meeting was first 
held on June 27, the anniversary of the great 
battle of Gaines' Mill, which made the brigade 
famous. A glance at the roster of those who 
were present at the Galveston meeting in 1874 
will show the reader how the old heroes are be- 
ing gathered one by one to the silent hereafter. 
The Neivs reproduces from its issue of May 8, 
1874, said roster. 

Roster of Those Who Attended the Third 

Annual Reunion at Galveston, 

May 7, 1874. 

Hood's Texas Brigade held its third annual 
meeting at Galveston May 7, 1874. From the 
News of May 8, 1874, the following is taken: 

The following survivors of the brigade belong- 
ing to the First, Fourth and Fifth Texas and 
the Third Arkansas Regiments were present 
and participated in the reunion. All the names 
may not be given of those who participated, 
but the list is as full as could be ascertained. 



First Texas Regiment. 

J. Mayrant Smith, Company L. 

H. W. Waters, Surgeon, S. 

Sam P. Corbett, Company H. 

A. H. Brandt, Company L. 

J. L. Sheridan, Captain, Company I. 

Collin Alrich, Company I. 

Albert W. Wood, Company L. 

A. Wakelee, Company L. 

John M. Dillon, Company L. 

Zack Sabie, Company L. 

Leslie Thompson, Company L. 

William Schadt, Company L. 

W. A. Shelton, Company L. 

E. S. Jemison, Captain, Company G. 

Smith D. Sims, Company L. 

Joseph Wagle, Company L. 

James E. Nagle, Company L. 

W. N. Robinson, Company L. 

A. C. McKeen, Captain, Company L. 

J. B. Massey, Company K. 

S. T. Blessing, Company I. 

W. B. Wall, Captain, Company I. 

Thomas Barnett, Company L. 

L. F. Delesdernie, Company L. 

J. M. Morphis, Commissary. 

John M. Burroughs, Company I. 

W. D. Priehard, Company I. 

S. B. Smith, Company L. 



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Fourth Texas Regimmt. 

A. J. Stewart, Company G. 

J. M. Pinkney, Company G. 

H. F. Plaster, Company G. 

R. H. Pinkney, Company G. 

H. D. Boozor, Company G. 

Val C. Giles, Company B. 

W. C. Steele, Company C. 

J. S. Spring, Company H. 

T. A. Wynne, Company H. 

J. E. Stuart, Company H. 

R. R. Robertson, Company B. 

J. P. Kindred, Company F. 

Frank B. Cliilton, Company H. 

R. H. Skinner, Company F. 

C. G. Mooring, Company G. 

George L. Robinson, Company B. 

Howard Finley, Company H. 

J. Farley. 

W. M. Hvmau, Company G. 

W. C. Walsh, Captain, Company B. 

J. M. Brandon, Lieutenant, Company E. 

John Haggerty, Company F. 

W. W. Dunkin Company' E. 

C. M. Winkler, Lieutenant Colonel. 

A. C. Brietz, 0. S., Company G. 
R. H. Wood, Company G. 

William E. Barry, Lieutenant Company G. 
Joseph H. Dunham, Lieutenant Company G. 
J. S. Mooring Company G. 

Fifth Texas Regiment. 

B. C. S.impson Company A. 
F. M. Poland, Company A. 

J. M. Smithers, Company D. 

E. E. Maxcv, Company E. 
S. V. Patrick, Company E. 

C. P. Gardner, Company A. 
B. Pugh Fuller, Company A. 
J. E. Landes, Company A. 
Samuel D. Williams, Company I . 
R. K. Felder, Company E. 

W. H. Gray. 

John C. Cox, Company C. 

J. J. McBride, Captain, Company C. 

J. D. Roberdeau, Captain Company B. 

Thomas Coogan, Company F. 

Calhoun Kearse, Company D. 

B. S. Fitzgerald, Company T. 

F. Charles Hume, Company D. 
S. D. Haws. Company A. 

Edwin P. Settle, First Commissary. 
F. J. Newman, Company L 
Robert Burns, Brigade Commissary. 

C. F. Settle Company A. 

J. H. Littlefield, Brigadier Quartermaster. 
J. D. Rogers, Captain Company E. 
James Slangs r, Company A. 



Third Arkansas Regiment. 

E. P. Albritton, Company D. 

T. S. Carroll, Company A. 

J. D. Pickens, Lieutenant, Company E. 

VETERANS REUNION. 



The Last Day's Session of Hood's Texas Brigade^New 
Officers Chosen — Bryan, Texas, Selected as the Place 
of Next Reunion — Incidents of Gettysburg — Eighty of 
the Gallant Followers of Hood were in Attendance- 
Two Sponsors Elected. 

The thirty-first annual gathering of the sur- 
vivors of Hood's Texas Brigade was brought to 
a close at noon yesterday after a two days" ses- 
sion and a grand old reunion. The business 
sessions are never long and never tedious, but 
always brief and full of life and fun. These 
heroes of that terrible conflict are the joUiest 
aggregation of gray-headed, bald-headed "boys" 
that ever struck Galveston, and they thorough- 
ly enjoy themselves at these annual experience 
meetings and soldierly smokers. The follow- 
ers of the impetuous Hood who braved the bat- 
tles of that four years' struggle are fast pass- 
ing away. One by one they are dropping from 
the ranks in that long, wearisome march to 
eternal rest. According to the records 26 of 
the gallant comrades were called from their 
earthly cares during the past year, and the no- 
ble band is growing smaller day by day. 

The attendance this year was larger than 
usual, however, and 80 comrades registered 
present at yesterday morning's session. Of 
the three Texas regiments there are about 300 
survivors, but many of them cannot get around 
to the reunions, and the usual attendance is 
between 60 and 70 members, so this year's meet- 
ing was one of the most largely attended of 
any for several years. 

At the session yesterday morning Bryan was 
selected as the place for the reunion next year. 
New officers were elected and the brigade de- 
parted from its usual custom by electing two 
sponsors to represent the brigade for the en- 
suing year. A ha])py incident marked the re- 
tirement of Miss Minnie Hunter as sponsor. 
She became Mrs. Gorman at the adjournment 
of the reunion. 

The veterans enjoyed a trip on the bay yes- 
terday afternoon and many of them departed 
for home last night after a most enjoyable two 
days' sojourn in the city. 

ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS. 

Tt was about 10:30 o'clock when Commander 
J. T. Hunter called the meeting to order for 
the second and last day's session of the brigade. 



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a half liour having been consumed in registering 
the veterans in attendance. The members of the 
brigade occupied seats on the left of the com- 
mander, with the members of Camp Magruder 
forming a substantial background. On the 
right were the officers and members of the 
Daughters of the Confederacy. The hall was 
well filled and the proceedings were enjoyed 
by all those who attended. There were no long- 
winded speeches, no lengthy documents to be 
read and no knotty problems to solve. The 
Secretary had very little business to engage the 
meeting and the session was conducted in a 
very businesslike manner with just enough 
pleasantries to interest everybody. The harpers 
in an adjoining room dispensed sweet music 
and occasionally a few selections from South- 
ern melodies which made the "boys" who wore 
the gray feel young again and brought back 
recollections of the long ago. 

Comrade Barry asked for permission to ad- 
dress the meeting, and when he secured recog- 
nition he asked that Judge John C. West of 
Waco be requested to read a paper he had pre- 
pared on incidents at the battle of Gettysburg. 
The request was made, and Judge West came 
forward with his interesting story of incidents 
as he saw them on that memorable occasion 
while serving in Company E of the Fourth 
Texas. Before beginning the story he said he 
always considered it a distinguished honor to 
be privileged to address a Confederate soldier 
at any time and at any place, and he felt high- 
ly honored on this occasion. He said he hnd 
received a letter a few days ago from a Daugh- 
ter of the Confederacy, who wrote him about 
how she had enjoyed the Confederate reunion 
at Memphis, which was the first large reunion 
she had ever attended. She said tliat she would 
rather attend such a reunion than a congres-; 
of kings, and Judge West said he felt the same 
about the reunion of Hood's Brigade in Galves- 
ton. He said he was with the brigade but one 
year in the Civil War, and when lie hears the 
veterans talking about battles in which he did 
not participate it brings tears to his eyes and 
sadness to his heart. He said he would rather 
have died in the first platoon than to live and 
have to tell hi? boy that he did not share in the 
glory of fighting for the Confederacy. The re- 
cital of his story, printed elsewhere in this is- 
sue, elicited great applause from the old sol- 
diers, who vividly pictured the scenes of those 
historical events. 

Ivctters and telegrams of regret at not being 
able to attend the reunion were read from the 
following active and honorary members: E. G. 
Sessions, Rice. Tex. ; James Williams, Coleman, 
Tex.; W. E. Copeland, Texarkana ; T. L. Mc- 



Carty, Mrs. Lee Farmer Johnston, wife of tlie 
late Captain D. C. Farmer, and author of 
Hood's Brigade March, copies of which were 
received by the brigade and distributed. 



Incidents at Gettysburg — Recollections 

OF A Soldier Who Fought With Hood 

IN This Battle. 

Judge John C. West of Waco, who served in 
Company E, Fourth Texas, is the author of 
this story, which he read by request at the clos- 
ing session of Hood's Brigade yesterday: 

This was my first experience in a general en- 
gagement, and though we had marched all 
night of July 1, reaching the battlefield about 
10 o'clock a. m. on the 2d, the interest and ex- 
citement and novelty of the occasion kept me 
up with my eyes and ears wide open. Our brig- 
ade was on the extreme right of the Confed- 
erate line, with perhaps one other brigade on 
our right. We marched and countermarched 
and rested until about 3 o'clock in the after- 
noon, when we came into line in the edge of 
timber opposite Little Round Top and Deyil's 
Den. I could see the Federal batteries, or 
rather the location of them, by the smoke of 
discharge. They were about half a mile or more 
from us. This was the first actual contact and 
full view of our enemy. We stood in column 
of fours, with our faces towards our right, for 
some time, during which the batteries com- 
menced to play on us, and the first shot — which 
I recognized — seemed to be a solid shot, which 
struck the ground about 50 or 60 feet from the 
line and passed by a bound over us, scattering 
dust and dirt over our company. The next shot 
passed about an equal distance beyond us, tear- 
ing up the earth. The third shot hit our line 
about eight feet in front of me, knocking off 
one soldier's head and cutting another in two, 
bespattering us with blood. 

Just then we fronted to the left, facing the 
battery. There was a short pause. I saw Gen- 
eral Hood on horseback about 300 or 400 yards 
obliquely to my left, just out of direct range of 
the battery fire, in the edge of the timber. He 
took his hat, held it above him in his right 
hand, rose to his full height in his stirrups, 
and shouted in a stentorian voice, "Forward! 
steady ; forward !" We started across the open 
field. As we moved on I heard the word pass- 
ing down the line, "Quick, but not double 
quick !" We went in pretty fair order across 
the field. As we entered the timber and brush 
our line was more broken. We soon struck a 
stone fence; then came a branch. Lieutenant 
Joe Smith, Company E, wet his handkerchief, 



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wrung it out and tied it around his head as he 
moved up the slope, which we had now reached. 
Bullets and grapeshot were coming thick and 
fast. A bullet passed through his head ; exam- 
ination afterwards showed 11 holes through 
tlie folded handkerchief. I think it made a 
white mark for a sharpshooter. As we ad- 
vanced up the steep side of the mountain we 
encountered bowlders from the size of a hogs- 
head to the size of a small house. Our line at 
times could hardly be called a line at all. The 
battery was taken. The First Texas suffered 
the brunt of the battle. After we were up on 
the first ridge the ground was so rough and 
broken that it was impossible to form a straight 
line, but it was quite evident to me from the 
sounds on our left that we were in advance of 
our center. From this position we made sallies 
to our front, over rocks and bowlders and tim- 
ber. It was impossible to make a united charge. 
The enemy were pretty thick and well con- 
cealed. It was more like Indian fighting than 
anything that I experienced during the war. 
Tliey had sharpshooters in trees and on lugh 
places that made it exceedingly dangerous to 
appear in any open place. One bullet passed 
through my beard and grazed my left ear. An- 
other missed the top of my head about an inch. 
Both struck the rock against which I was sit- 
ting. I abandoned the position instanler. Just 
in "front of us, perhaps 50 yards, was a com- 
paratively open space on rising ground, very 
small in extent. It seemed almost certain death 
to attempt to pass it. Singly and in squads 
we made several experiments to test the pres- 
ence of the enemy beyond, and every time, 
night or day, a shower of bullets greeted us. 
About 10 o'clock on the night of the 2d. Gold- 
sticker of Company A ventured out. He was 
mortally wounded, and lay there many hours 
calling for help. I can hear his plaintive cry: 
"Water! water! Great God, bring me water!" 
but there was no truce. Death released him be- 
fore the dawn. Poor Goldsticker! He was 
a gambler, a German and a Jew, but he died 
at the front! 

We held our position among the rocks all 
night and until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon 
of the 3d. Colonel Carter of the Fourth was 
severely wounded, afterwards captured, and 
died in the Federal hospital. Major Winkler 
was also wounded. Private Champ Fitzhugh of 
my company was captured, and I saw him 
no more, until by a strange coincidence I met 
him in May, 1864, at 12 o'clock at night in the 
swamp on the bank of the Mississippi River, 
each of us attempting to cross tlie river. We 
crossed together in a canoe (with Yankee gun- 



boats above and below us.) This by way of 
parenthesis. 

From 3 to 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the 
3d the battle raged in the center on the left of 
our brigade. Wc liad received notice that 
the artillery on the whole line would open about 
2 o'clock, and upon cessation of artillery fire 
the entire line would move forward. This or- 
der was cari'ied out, and when our artillery 
opened the enemy answered as promptly as if a 
telephone message had said, "Shoot now." 

This cannonade was the grandest and most 
sublime circumstance I ever saw or heard. I 
can conceive of nothing grander, more porten- 
tous, or awful. An earthquake, a cyclone, a 
thunderstorm, a hurricane all in one could not 
be more terrific. It sounded veritably as if hell 
had broken loose and the imchained demons 
and furies were shrieking in the air. It was 
grand, sublime and glorious. The anticipation 
of the assault which was impending at the close 
of this fearful storm inspired the hearts of 
men with the joy of battle, which so filled us 
that there was no room for fear. While the 
earth quivered the storm ceased, and the for- 
ward movement began. Our end of the line, 
crooked and curved by the broken condition of 
the ground, made no progress. We were already 
in advance of the troops on our left. When the 
contest seemed hot on our left and towards the 
center we moved to the front, hoping to find a 
weak place or an opening for flank movement, 
but the enemy evidently recognized the import- 
ance of that position, and we could gain no ad- 
vantage there, but the fight grew fast and fu- 
rious on our left. We could see nothing, but 
the Confederate yell and the Yankee huzzah 
alternated back and forth with such regularity 
for nearly an hour as to satisfy us that a crit- 
ical moment was approaching at that point and 
that we were in danger of being flanked. Soon 
the "huzzah" advanced so far as to create un- 
easiness in our part of the line, and directly 
notice came from our left to "get out of here 
as quickly as you can." We did not consider 
the order of our going, but rushed down the 
slope with better speed than we had been able 
to make coming in. As we had obliqued to the 
right coming up the mountain, and now 
obliqued to the left coming out, we struck the 
open field several liundred yards to the riglit 
of the stone fence and branch which we had 
crossed, and looking to our right, siw the 
Yanks in full line in the open field. We went 
across the field under fire without regard to 
tactics. Bullets were pretty thick and hit about 
us with that peculiar searching "zip-zip" which 
suggests rapid locomotion. 

Mr. H. Van Dusen of Company C, Fourth 



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Texas, was just in front of me about 10 feet. I 
heard a bullet hit him and saw him tumble over. 
I thought he was dead and I so reported when 
our regiment got together after dark. Some 
man said, "Xo; he is over there by a tree."' I 
went to the place and found Van Dusen with 
head bound with a white cloth. The bullet 
had struck him in the head, but failed to pene- 
trate. He went to the field hospital, was after- 
wards captured and got among Dutch kinsfolk 
in Pennsylvania. It was said that they offered 
him every inducement to abandon the Confed- 
eracy, which he declined, went to prison and 
was afterwards exchanged. He survived the 
war and returned to Texas. The heroism of 
Confederate prisoners in Federal prisons would 
furnish a splendid subject for the pen of a com- 
petent historian. The fearful and untold suf- 
ferings of these brave men, their faithful re- 
sistance of the blandishments and rewards of- 
fered in exchange for their fidelity to the Con- 
federate cause, when hope had fled and certiiin 
death seemed imminent, have never been half 
revealed, and places them side by side with the 
noblest martyrs of the ages. 



SPONSOR'S WEDDING. 



Miss Minnie Hunter, of Huntsville, and W. C. Gorman 
Married. 

One of the happiest incidents in connection 
with the gathering of veterans for their annual 
reunion was the marriage of the brigade's 
sponsor. Miss Minnie Hunter of Huntsville, 
daughter of Capt. J. T. Hunter, the retirinu' 
president of Hood's Brigade As-ociation. The 
ceremony was performed yesterday shortly 
after the adjournment of the morning sessi'm 
at the Tremont Hotel. Beneath the blue fla'i; 
of the John B. Hood Fife and Drum Corps and 
the handsome silk Confederate flag, furnished 
by Veuve Jefferson Davis Chapter, Daughters 
of the Confedercy, Miss Hunter and Mr. Wil- 
liam C. Gorman of Palestine were united as 
husband and wife. Kev. W. H. Harris, rector 
of the First Baptist Church, and Chaplain of 
Camp Magruder, United Confederate Veterans, 
officiated in tieing the nuptial knot. 

It w-as an impressive scene in which joy and 
sorrow mingled while love pronounced the 
benediction. Miss Hunter is a most estimable 
young lady and was a great favorite with the 
veterans who gathered to witness the joyous 
ceremony which took her from them. They 
wished her joy and yet they were sad at her 
leaving. The ceremony was performed in the 
circular corridor just ofi from the parlors on 
the second floor. The members of Hood's Brig- 



ade, Camp Magruder, Daughters of the Con- 
federacy and a number of friends were present. 
Miss Barrett of Huntsville presided at the 
piano and rendered Mendelssohn's march as 
the bridal party entered the corridor. The 
bride was given away by her father. Captain 
Himter. She wore a lovely white dress and 
carried a bridal bouquet of white flowers. The 
bridesmaids were Miss Roberta Lambkin, of 
Huntsville, Miss Brantley of Calvert and Miss 
Lucy Barry of Navasota. 



CHAMPION OYSTER EATER. 



June 27, 1901. Medal was Awarded to Captain J. T. 
Hunter, Who Ate 1189 Oysters by Actual Count. 

There were oysters, raw, oysters fried, oysters 
stewed, in fact oysters cooked in every style, 
fried fish and fish chowder and the usual acces- 
sories that go to make up a successful fish and 
oyster feast. 

There were liquid refreshments in abundance, 
and while the veterans ate, the members of the 
Daughters of the Confederacy were in constant 
attendance to see that they lacked for nothing. 
There was nothing done or said to disturb the 
feast, but after the veterans had dined to their 
heart's content Mr. George P. Finlay mounted 
the stand and assembly was sounded. Colonel 
Knlay said in effect that the city of Galveston 
and its people were glad to have the honor of 
entertaining the veterans of Hood's Brigade; 
that no braver band of men were ever assembled 
and that their names would go down in history, 
a credit to themselves and the people of the 
Lone Star State. He referred to the fact of 
the numerous campa<igns in the State of Vir- 
ginia and how the members of Hood's Texas 
Brigade had upon every occasion covered them- 
selves with glory. He said that it was not his 
purpose upon this occasion to speak of the glo- 
ries won upon the battlefield by the veterans of 
Hood's Texas Brigade. He said that there was 
another matter that prompted his remarks, a 
matter that did not apply to battles, but to eat- 
ing. He said that while the veterans were feast- 
ing upon oysters and fish to their heart's con- 
tent a committee had been locating the man 
who had consumed the greatest number of oys- 
ters. "There have been spies out," said Colonel 
Finlay, "and they have brought in their re- 
port. " I know," he said, "that all of the vet- 
erans can eat, and if I were looking for the man 
who had eaten the most oysters and should 
throw a bnick, I have no doubt that every man 
would dodge." The committee he siid, had re- 
ported upon a man who by actual count had 
consumed 1,189 oysters at a single sitting, and 



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in doing so liad won the title of the champion 
oyster eater of the brigade. He said tliat the 
man wlio had distinguished himself in the oys- 
ter eating contest had been a noted scout on 
many battlefields, and when (in action was al- 
ways to the front. His beard, he said, was now 
white but then it was red and waved as a flag 
on many fields of battle. "I now present to 
Captain Hunter," said Colonel Finlay, "this 
medal emblematic of the champion oyster eater 
of Hood's Brigade." Coloney Finlay then placed 
about the neck of Captain Hunter the medal. It 
was carved from pine wood and upon the face 
was printed the number of oysters consumed 
by the Captain at the single sitting. 

Captain Hunter was taken by surprise and in 
responding said that he did not suppose thnt 
he had succeeded in eating more oysters thsm 
some of his comrades of the brigade. Howevei-, 
he said that he would abide by the decision of 
the committee and des^ired to say that one of 
the pleasantest reunions in the history of tl;e 
brigade was the present one at Galveston. The 
souvenir as the champion oyster eater of the 
brigade, he said, he would cherish and hand 
down to posterity. In concluding, he said that 
while he desired to enter no protest or find fault 
with the count of the committee, he believed 
that his friend Policy had eaten more oysters 
than he had. 

At the conclusion of the remarks of Cajjtain 
Hunter there were loud calls for Comrade 
Polley. 

In responding, Mr. Polley stated that the 
committee had made an eminently wise selection 
when they picked Comrade Hunter as the cham- 
pion oyster eater of the brigade. He said that 
besfides being an eater, Captain Hunter was a 
fighter, and that in many a battle where Hood's 
Brigade fought, Captain Hunter could always 
be found in front. Mr. Polley thanked the peo- 
ple of Galveston for the courtesies shown the 
veterans and said that they had never been 
treated with greater consideration by any people. 
"The men," he said, ''have treated us nobly 
and the ladies, God bless them, they speak for 
themselves." When Mr. Polley concluded he 
was liberally applauded. 

Colonel X. B. Sanders of Bel ton was next 
called upon. Colonel Sanders said that he con- 
sidered it a great honor to address the veterans 
of Hood's Brigade and was highly aj'preciativc 
of the honor conferred upon him in selecting 
him as honorary member of the Association. He 
said that he knew of the fighting reputation of 
Hood's Brigade, but he felt doubly honored in 
being elected an honorary member of the Asso- 
ciation when it was shown by actual count that 
a member of the band liad eaten n.dOO ovsters. 



There were loud calls for Judge Stephens of 
Hill County. The remarks of Judge Stephens 
were humorous to a marked degree and had the 
effect of putting the veterans in excellent hu- 
mor. He said that he at one time made an 
address of three hours' length and held his audi- 
ence spellbound. The speech, he said, was made 
to a lady and there were no others present ex- 
cept himself and her. He said that he had been 
to a number of reunions of Hood's Brigade, bui 
he had never experienced a more delightful tiiU' 
than at the Galveston meeting. He spoke nf th • 
glorious victories of Hood's Brigade and said 
that he hoped to meet at an oyster roast on the 
other side Generals Stonewall Jackson, R. K. 
Lee and Hood. 

When Judge Stephens finished Captain Wm. 
Barry of Navasota was called upon. He Siiid 
that he had anticipated that some one wouM 
call upon him to speak and that he had co :i;e 
prepared for it. He then spoke as follows : — 

In the name of my comrades, living and dead, 
I thank you and the people of Galveston for this 
manifestation of your love and devotion to the 
memories that cluster around the "lost cause" 
like a halo of glory. I have looked forward lo 
this occasion with much pleasure because I 
could again meet my dear old comrades, and re- 
hearse incidents and scenes of the long ago, and 
the heroes of the glorious past who reside in the 
mterior could meet with the generous people or 
this goodly city, and to know that this peopl", 
many of whom have grown up since the close of 
the unhappy struggle, are making sucli a splen- 
did manifestation towards perpetuating the 
memory of their gallant fathers. I rejoice to 
know that it is through your love and devotion 
to the cause, and the men who fought the bat- 
tles of the South that you have given this gen- 
erous reception. It is worthy of you who ga\e 
to the South that noble band of heroes, the 
"Lone Star Rifles." It is worthy of a people 
who presented to the South that matchless spiiit 
— the chivalric Harry Sellers. It is worthy of 
you, of our living comrades, who reside in your 
citv — Rogers, Hume, Yidor, Young and others. 
Wlien at our reunion at Palestine la^^t year your 
city was selected as the place for our next re- 
union, but a few months afterwards this beau- 
tiful gem of the Gulf was visited by the great- 
est calamity that ever befell any city of the uni- 
verse. Ajipalling the people in every land and 
countrv such a calamity made us all akin to you. 
and helping hands were reached out to you from 
every State and country. Out of all this deso- 
lation you bid fair to erect another city more 
l)eautiful than the first. God grant you may yet 
be the great commercial emporium your loca- 
tion entitles you to. We thought after this de- 



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etruetion of life and property the brigade 
would be compelled to meet elsewhere, that 
that spirit of enterprise which has ever animat- 
ed this people would listen to no proposition of 
change and we are here with you, the rem- 
nants of a glorious band, scattered like mile 
stones connecting us who are left with these 
who followed the Southern Cross on so many 
battlefields. Our dead — 

We care not whence they came, 
Dear is their lifeless clay. 
Whether known or unknown to fame. 
Their cause and country still the same; 
They died and wore the gray. 

No country or people in all Southland sent 
truer, braver or better men to battle and die 
for the right than Texas — men of devotion to 
duty under circumstances of the greatest peril 
and hardships and never faltered. We realized 
the solemn fact. War at best was most terri- 
ble to contemplate. We loved peace, but had a 
total abhorrence of cowardice. We did not 
want peace at the sacrifice of our honor and 
manhood ; we preferred to breathe as the free 
spirits of our ancestors who reclaimed this vast 
domain from the Indian and equally savage 
Mexican. We came by inheritance in posses- 
sion of a martial spirit; from the dawn of earli- 
est childhood we listened to the oft-repeated 
story of our pioneer fathers, who made the 
name of Texan immortal at Goliad, the Alamo 
and San Jacinto, and on all the fields of Mex- 
ico; from this fountain we drank deep of the 
principles of Liberty. When the liberty of the 
citizen and his rights of property had been in- 
vaded, the Constitution dethroned, the decrees 
of the courts of the country not recognized, 
and the ballot box failed to preserve and protect 
our rights, we desired a peaceable settlement of 
our rights. This being denied us, the only al- 
ternative left was the arbitrament of arms, and 
we took them up in our defense. President 
Lincoln, calling for troops, then began thi; 
struggle. From a sense of duty we resisted ; 
our consciences and hearts approved our course, 
and before God and all the hi.storic scenes of 
that period we have no apology to offer for our 
course. We believed we were right then and 
we believe so now. Wo handed down to posterity 
a history in which is recorded some of the 
grandest scenes and characters ever witnessed 
on earth. We want the world to fully know 
and understand that history. We want every 
page illuminated by the light of truth. Wo 



want posterity to know truthfully how that 
history was made. By our own act and deed we 
took our lives and fortunes in our hands and 
wrote that history in letters of living light that 
will go ringing tlirough the ages. Amid the 
smoke and carnage of many fields the sons of 
Texas wrote their names high up in the scroll 
of honor. We lived on short rations without 
complaint ; we wore our rags in honor ; we 
knew we had not a dollar on earth ; surround- 
ed by foes in countless numbers, overpowered 
but not dismayed, the heroes of '61 and '65 
stood, a living wall keeping back the advance 
of our enemy until we reared around us a 
slaughter hecatomb of more men than ever 
fought under the folds of our flag, we made 
our record and have left it to fame and im- 
mortality. Let it stand in its spotless purity 
and majestic grandeur. Let no vandal hand be 
raised to pollute it. Let that flag we loved so 
well and followed to the bitter end be furled 
forever and let the gallant hands who upheld 
it so faithfully be cherished forever. As for 
myself, when the hour comes for me to bid a 
long, a last adieu to the scenas of earth, let my 
eyes as they close in death, with a last lingering 
gaze rest upon a grander, a more prosperous 
South, built up from the sacred dust of her 
gallant sons. Let my eyes behold the sons and 
grandsons of our dead elevated if possible to 
a nobler manhood, who will be as true to prin- 
ciple and as patriotic under scenes of awful 
peril as their fathers. And, God, let my eyes 
rest upon a womanhood as lofty in purity, as 
faithful and self-sacrificing as their beloved 
mothers. I will then pass over that silent River 
of Death and rest under the eternal shades with 
all my dead comrades, satisfied and content. 
Let the flag I loved so well be placed upon my 
coffin, let this old battered casket with that be- 
loved flag moulder in the dust, perhaps both 
sown in dishonor may be raised in glory. 

When Captain Barry concluded the string 
band in attendance played "Dixie" and the fes- 
tivities were at an end. 

The veterans and invited guests then boarded 
the cars in waiting and returned to the city. 
The trip to town was made \\ithout incident. 

Mrs. Mollie Macgill Rosenberg, who assisted 
in waiting upon the veterans at the oyster 
roast, brought out two Confederate flags, which 
occupied a conspicuous place at the oyster camp. 
Before the return to the city the members of 
Hood's Brigade, invited guests and the Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy had a group picture tak- 
en by a local photographer. 



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JOY AND SADNESS. 



These Intermingled at Reunion of Veterans of Hood's 
Texas Brigade, Galveston, June 27, 1901. Bright Star 
of Valor. Major Hume and Judge Henderson Told of 
Brilliant Deeds of Texans in the War. 

When Commander Hunter of Hood's Texas 
Brigade Association rapped for order yester- 
day in tiie hall of Camp Magruder, United 
Confederate Veterans, he faced a larger num- 
ber of the old veterans of that famous organ- 
ization than had been hoped would attend. The 
old veterans, gray and grizzled with the expe- 
riences of war and the weight of years, were 
arranged at his left, while at his right were the 
ladies of the Daughters of the Confederacy and 
other visitors. These completely filled the hall, 
and there were a number who stood about the 
doorway. And the visitors were apparently as 
much pleased as were the local committeemen. 
It has been a little over 27 years since the or- 
ganization met in Galveston, and not a few of 
those present yesterday but remembered the de- 
lights of that previous visit. Therefore they 
have not to take the Galveston peo])le on trust, 
but having tasted of the delights of the hospi- 
tality of this city, they were undoubtedly anx- 
ious to come again. 

In that 27 years how have those ranks lieen 
thinned ! Many have gone forward and others 
are but waiting for the summons. While there 
were pleasures and delightful incidents con- 
nected with their soldier life, yet the pain of 
having parted with comrades on the battlefielil 
and the pain of having been separated from 
them by the grim destroyer are ever uppermost 
in their latter-day tlioughts. They miss the 
men who sat by their sides at the last reunion 
or some other reunion ; they miss the men by 
whom them fought the many terrific battles in 
which the valor and heroism of tlie Texan was 
riveted in history, for it liad been establisliel 
in the previous years. 

Therefore there is sadness at parting, mixed 
with the joy of greeting the comrades of old. 
There is pleasure in knowing that thi- and that 
member, altliough absent, is doing well, and 
pain when he tells them that adversity has be- 
set him. These reunions have their joyous si'e 
uppermost, but the constant tugging of Fate 
at the heartstrings of these brave men keep 
them in tlie recollection tliat Pain goes hand in 
hand with Pleasure. 

Yesterday's proceedings were routine in 
character and short in duration. The veterans 
assembled before the appointed hour and chat- 
ted with one another and with the visitors. 



There were addresses of welcome and a re- 
sponse, following which a little business was 
done and a few announcements made, and the 
Association adjourned until 10 o'clock today. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Major Hume's Eloquent Reference to the City's 
Calamity. 

Major F. Charles Hume delivered the ad- 
dress of welcome in behalf of the City of Gal- 
veston to Hood's Texas Brigade, speaking as 
follows : 

Comrades, you are welcome! 

The city that greets you has felt the heavy 
liand of fate since you were la^it her guests; but 
she is still fair to look upon, and brave of 
heart, and if there be suppressed tears behind 
lier smiles, account them witnesses of gladness 
that you are c^ome. 

She has put away the habiliments of woe and 
lifted her face to the morning. 

Henceforth she goes the Queen's way, as h;is 
been her wont. 

She is rebuilding tlie homes of her people 
and restoring the agencies and symbols of her 
power. 

She will not abdicate her crown, but, in- 
stead, will augment its splendor v.ith new.-et 
jewels. 

Although her throne is budded in the incon- 
stant sea and about it war nature's elemental 
forces, she will not yield it, nor drop from her 
liand the familiar scepter. 

It is true tliat she has suffered, and has en- 
dured, beyond the measure of imagination. But, 
for solace and alleviation, she has had the 
world's gracious and abundant sympathy. Xor 
does she lack the accustomed ministrations of 
the sweet South winds ; nor the loveliness of 
perfect skies; nor the light of imperial stars; 
nor the songs of the immemorial oem; mr 
the bloom and fragrance and gorgeous pageantry 
of June. And, more thm all. her heart still 
warms to the gray survivors of the gray battal- 
ions whose youthful valor and devotion dared 
tlie impossible, and thougli losing, exacted of 
frowning fortune the guerdon of imperishable 
fame. 

You are not now )ianoplicil for war — albeit 
you gather on tlie anniversary of a day malfi 
memorable by your feats in arms. Thirty-nine 
years have passed since that day at Gaines' 
Mill, in the swamps of the Chickahominy. Brief 
extracts from the official re]iort of General 
Wanting, the Division Commander, fix the cru- 
cial moment of the battle: 



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281 



"The Texans had now come up and joined 
line on the left, led by General Hood, and 
the gallant Fourth at the double quick, when 
the word was given to charge, and the whole 
line * * * charged the ravine with a yell. 
General Hood and Colonel Law gallantly lead- 
ing their men. At the bottom ran a deep and 
diliicult branch with scarped sides, answering 
admirably as a ditch. Over against tliis wa^r a 
strong log breastwork, supported by well served 
batteries and a heavy force of infantry, the 
steep slope, clad with an open growth of timljer, 
concealing the enemy, but affording full view 
of our movements. Spite of these terrible ob- 
stacles, over ditch and breastwork, hill, batter- 
ies and infantry, the division swept, routing the 
enemy from their stronghold. * * * The bat- 
tle was very severe, hotly contested, and gal- 
lantly won. I take pleasure in calling special 
attention to the Fourth Texas Regiment, which, 
led by Brigadier General Hood, was the first to 
break the enemy's line and enter his works. Its 
brave old Colonel (Marshall) fell early in the 
charge on the hither side of the ravine. The 
stubborn resistance maintained all day faltered 
from that moment and the day was gained." 

Texas may rest content with that account, 
written by one of the most brilliant soldiers 
that ever drew sword. 

The day of Gaines' Mill is but twin in glory 
to many other days immortalized by your con- 
stancy and conduct. 

Far away now is that heroic time. It has 
taken its august place in the procession of tl:e 
ages. Through the ever softening light of mem- 
ory we look without the old bitterness upon the 
death grapples of its contending armies, and 
the strains of its martial music fall not now so 
harsh and fierce. 

Nevertheless, it is due to truth and to our- 
selves to say that neither in intellectual nor in 
moral conviction are we changed. We are proud 
that we were a part of it all, and we w.uld 
have our children so to the latest genemtion 
that bear our names ; for if ever the path of 
duty and self-sacrifice was followed by man it 
was followed by the Confederate soldier. 

And now, after all, we rejoice that the enmi- 
ties of the past are dead ; that we live in p^-ace 
in our own land ; that our old comrades are 
called to the duties of Government and to the 
command of armies ; that our young men assist 
to maint^iin wherever it floats the' flag wh!<-h 
we once disowned and assailed ; that our St ite 
is one of the greatest I^'nion of Free States 
that was ever devised and administered by 
man; that we and our sons are Americans, 
ready and willing to meet all the obligations of 
citizenship, whether in peace or war ; that our 



one time enemies manfully concede that we 
fought in our youth as we believed and prayed 
— and, more, that the President of all the 
States, himself our gallant antagonist in arms 
in those dark years, tenders services of rever- 
ence to the ashes of our dead. 



JUDGE HENDERSON'S RESPONSE. 

He Told of the Wonderful Exploits of the Texas Men. 

Judge John N. Henderson of Bryan, a former 
member of Company E, Fifth Texas, Hood's 
Brigade, made the response to the address of 
welcome of Major Hume. He spoke as fol- 
lows : 

Ladies, Gentlemen and Comrades: The sur- 
vivors of Hood's Texas Brigade at the behes:3 
of the citizens of Galveston have met in annual 
reunion to do honor to their dead comrades 
and to the memory of the Lost Cause. A year 
ago your city was selected for this reunion. 
Your condition at that time was far different 
from the present. Then you numbered a pop- 
ulation of more than 40,000 souls. This was 
the beautiful "Oleander City"; the commercial 
emporium of Texas; industry stimulated trade 
and enterprise; faith in the future girdled 
your loins and hope smiled and waved her gold- 
en wand. Since that time your Island City has 
been devastated by the most disastrous storm 
in the annals of time. Your homes have been 
swept away, and nearly one-fourth of your pop- 
ulation has been destroyed. It does not need to 
say that on receipt of the sad intelligence of 
your condition, we hesitated to accept your 
courtesy — not that we believed it would not be 
graciously extended, but the fear was least we 
should become a burden and trespass on your 
hospitality. But I beg to state that this hesita- 
tion was only momentary, for we reflected that 
this had been the home of many of our dead 
comrades who had gone forth with us to bat- 
tle; that here lived, both before and after the 
war, the gallant Sellers, of whom General Hood 
said, "He was the bravest of the brave," and 
who, though only a Lieutenant Colonel and a 
staff officer, led the brigade to one of the most 
brilliant victories of the war; and when we re- 
membered that this was still tl:e residence of 
Rogers, Humes, the Settles, Goree, Vidor and 
others of our surviving comrades, we knew that 
you would take it ill should we change our res- 
olution : and we are here today to accept of your 
hospitality and to mingle together in social re- 
union. We are glad to find your city not pros- 
trate and despairing, but still strong and self- 
reliant. Like Neptune, you have taken your 
bath in the sea ; and though your locks may be 
disheveled, you are full of hope an:l faith in 



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the future; and with such determination as is 
yours, you will yet scale the walls of adversity 
and like the Venice of old, the city of the Adri- 
atic, Galveston, the metropolis of the new Med- 
iterranean, will receive into her lap the rich' s 
of the Orient and rival in wealth and splendor 
the most renowned cities of ancient or modern 
times. 

Forty years have passed since the three reg- 
iments of Texans who subsequently became 
known as "Hood's Brigade," left their native 
State and went forth to meet the invader and 
to do battle for the cause they believed to be 
just, on the historic fields of the Old Dominion. 
Years full of events ; some of sorrow ; some of 
joy, but all filled with hope as our country 
forged forward in the race of progress. So 
rapid has been the advance of the achievements 
of civilization, such the rush and hurry inci- 
dent to a money-making age, while the old gen- 
eration has been passing away, and new men, 
who knew not our fathers of 1861, have taken 
their places, it is to be feared that we are un- 
mindful of much that added glory to our Com- 
monwealth ; we are forgetting much that con- 
tributed luster to the name and fame of the 
Texas soldier. But amid all this change, to us, 
the survivors of the Lost Cause, nothing has 
occurred to diminish our pride or dim our eyes 
to the prowess and splendor of the noble heroes 
who offered their lives a willing sacrifice upon 
the altar of their country. I trust I shall he 
pardoned if I recall on this occa-sion, at the 
risk of being considered prosaic and perhaps 
boastful, some of the events which made the 
name of the Texas soldier the sjTionym of hero- 
ism throughout the world. And todiy my 
theme shall l)e. How Hood's Brigade Won Hs 
Spurs in Virginia. To tell all of its acbieve- 
nicnts would make a book, and would wnrry 
vour patience. T shall therefore undertake a 
glimpse of the campaign of 1862 — the first reil 
campaign of the war, and one in which that 
hand of heroes carved for themselves and tl'.eir 
State immortal fame. Had I the gift of ge- 
nius or the skill of the literary artist. I mijht 
W'cave a romance that would set at nought t' e 
march of Xenophon and his Grecian bard in'o 
the heart of Asia, or that would pale into insig- 
nificance the deeds of chivalry and valor which 
characterized the days of knight errantry, when 
Richard the Lion Hearted led the chivalrv of 
Europe against Salladin and his hordes of M'-s- 
lems in the Holy T>and. Hut as it i^, T must 
wntent myself witli cold facts, and let history 
speak for itself. 

Some of you '^^re remember (lie Texas fif 
18G1. The Lone Star State was then a marvel 
of beauty, intersjcrsed here an^J there with 



farms and hamlets, and towns and villages, the 
cheerful homes of men. The hand of civiliza- 
tion had as yet scarce marred the fair face of 
this Empire State. Only one or two short lines 
of railway were then in existence. Beyond 
these the stage coach was the public conveyance 
between places, while in all our borders we only 
had six or seven hundred thousand people, one- 
fourth of whom were negroes. But our white 
population constituted a robust and vigorous 
race — an honest yeomanry, the sons of pioneers, 
the progeny of the early settlers of this vat 
domain. But today how changed ! The beauty 
of the wilderness has given place to the wonders 
of civilization. The whole country is dotted 
with farms and ranches, towns and cities have 
sprung up on every hand, and more than 10,000 
miles of railway form a network of travel and 
communication between our most distant 
points, while an enterprising population of 
three and a half million souls indicate the ma- 
terial progress we have accomplished. 

When the call to arms was sounded the au- 
thorities at Richmond were appealed to, and 
Texas was grudgingly allowed to send throe 
regiments to Virginia, the anticipated arem of 
the contending armies. These were raised in 
an incredibly short space of time, the countiis 
vieing with each other in an effort to get into 
the regiments. As fast as they were ready they 
were sent forward to the front. In the early 
fall of 1861 all three of the regiments, compris- 
ing about 3,000 troops, had arrived at Rich- 
mond, were organized and armed, and after- 
wards went into winter quarters along the Po- 
tomac in the neighborhood of Dumfries, some 
30 miles below Washington. Shall I pause to 
describe to you this splendid Iwdy of men, as 
they stood for the first time on dress parade 
on the banks of the Potomac? Wigfall, Mi- 
Lood and Rainey of the First; Hood. Marsh dl 
and Warwick of the Fourth, and Archer, Rob- 
ertson and Botts of the Fifth, composed the 
field officers of the regiments, and 32 as gallant 
Captains as e'er commission bore commanded 
the 32 companies. As far as the eye could re.ich 
was a long line of gray. Three thousand bright 
Texas boys, mostly from 18 to 25 years of ago, 
with Enfield rifles and bayonets glittering in 
the sun, they presented a spectacle for the ad- 
miration of all beholders. The farm, tl e 
ranch, the storehouse, the schoolroom and 
the college, throughout the length and bread tli 
of our Elmpire State, had all contrilmted their 
quota to swell the ranks of this remirknble 
body of men. Do you doubt for a moment that 
as they stood there, a solid phalanx, a thousand 
miles from home, surrounded by the troops 
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sole representatives of the Lone Star State, they 
realized Texas had committed to their care and 
keeping her fair fame, and they were deter- 
mined to bear aloft the sacred honor of their 
State upon the points of their bayonets to vic- 
tory or to death? Their lips were yet warm 
with mother's, or wife's, or sweetheart's kiss, 
and with the parting benediction to come home 
with their shields or on them, they were in- 
spixed by the deeds of the illustrious heroes of 
the Alamo, Goliad and San Jacinto, and they 
pledged their faith to carve a name for them- 
selves and for Texas equal to the Tenth Legion 
of Caesar or the Old Guard of Xapoleon. 

But enough of this. The fearful drama of 
1862 is about to begin. In the early spring the 
Federal army, some 200,000 men, under Mc- 
Clellan, changed its base from the Potomac to 
the Peninsula at Yorktown of historic memory. 
They were confronted by Magruder with some 
10,000 or 15,000 troops, who held the vast 
horde of Federal troops at bay until the arrival 
of General Johnston, who rapidly marched 
from the line of the Eappahannock to reinforce 
Magruder. After confronting him for several 
days, our army began its retreat toward Rich- 
mond — Hood's Brigade, then belonging to 
Whiting's Division, covering the retreat to Wil- 
liamsburg, passing through that town, while 
the battle of Williamsburg was in progress. The 
division was moved rapidly to Eltham's Land- 
ing, on York River in order to cover an antici- 
pated movement calculated to intercept the re- 
treat of the army. Here, for the first time in 
the campaign, the Texas troops engaged the en- 
emy, in a densely wooded country along the 
York River. The Fourth and Fifth did but 
little fighting, but the First Texas encountered 
the enemy in strong force and a severe engage- 
ment ensued, in which that regiment drove at 
least double their number of Federal troops 
under cover of their gunboats. The entire brig- 
ade lost some 40 or 50 killed and wounded, 
while the enemy's loss was at least twice that 
number. Here it was that Captain Denny of 
the Fifth and Lieutenant Colonel Black of the 
First were killed, and Lieutenant Colonel 
Rainey of the First was severely wounded. I 
mentioned this battle, not so much on account 
of its importance as compared with otb.evs 
which ensued, but because it was the first con- 
tact the Texas troops as a brigade had with the 
enemy, and in that engagement it performed 
its part so well as to receive the encomium of 
General Gustavus W. Smith, the commanding 
officer. Hear what he says in his official report: 
"The brunt of the contest was borne by thi' 
Texans, and to them is due the largest share 
of the honors of the day at Eltham." And 



again he says: ''Had I 40,000 such troops I 
would undertake a successful invasion of the 

North." 

I pass by the battle of Seven Pines, as the 
Texas Brigade were merely passive spectators 
in that engagement. Shortly thereafter Gen- 
eral Robert E. Lee took command of the Con- 
federate forces in Virginia, and thenceforward 
that army ceased to retreat from the foe and 
began an aggressive campaign which crowned 
our cause with victory after victory until the 
name of the Confederate soldier became illus- 
trious wherever heroism is admired. As soon 
as General Lee assumed command of the army 
he undertook a campaign for the relief of Rich- 
mond and for the purpose of driving the Fed- 
eral invaders from the soil of Virginia. I shall 
not stop here to relate the splendid strategy 
which re-enforced Jackson, who was operating 
in the valley, with the division of Whiting, to 
which the Texas Brigade then belonged, and 
how all these troops were immediately trans- 
ferred from the valley, to the rear of McClel- 
lan's right flank at Mechanicsville. Suffice it, 
the battle of the 26th of June at Mechanicsville 
ensued, in which the Federals were driven from 
their works, and the two wings of our army, 
that on the north bank of the Chickahominy 
under Jackson, and that on the south bank un- 
der Lee, were reunited. 

On the morning of the 27th of June, today 
39 years ago, at early dawn, the Confederates 
began seeking the enemy ; Longstreet and A. P. 
Hill pursued the routes on our right nearest 
the Chickahominy, and came soonest on their 
lines, while the troops under Jackson, composed 
of the divisions of Whiting, Ewell and D. H. 
Hill, having to make a detour further to our 
left, came later upon the field, approaching the 
enemy in the neighborhood of Cold Harbor. 
Our lines on the right were formed about 12 
o'clock and later on the left, and conformed to 
the enemy's in shape, but our position, aside 
from their fortifications, was far inferior to 
theirs. Our line of battle, as formed, extending: 
from right to left, was as follows: Longstreet 
on the right. A. P. Hill to his left, then the 
divisions of Ewell and D. H. Hill to his left in 
the order stated. Whiting's Division, com- 
posed of Hood's and Law's Brigades, did not 
form in line, but were held in reservi' nenr 
Cold Harbor. The battle began in earnest a 
little past 12 o'clock and soon raged with fury 
on our right where Longstreet was posted. 
About 3 o'clock our left became engaged, and in 
the still, hot evening air the rattle of musketry 
and the roar of artillery was fearful all along 
our lines. We knew, from our position of safety 
that a terrible conflict was going on, in whifh 



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llic lilmiil 111' llic lirsi illld liruM'Sl (III l)(itll s.diS 
WHS boiiig poured out like water. Slill we wiTc 
heiii;,' held in tlie leash, and the Texas Ijn^iade, 
like (lie bedridden knij^lil in "Ivaniioe," Tell 
that they were destined to stay wliere they were 
wiiile the gnnie was being phiyed which shouhl 
bring us victory or defeat. At this juncture 
the 'I'e.xas lirigade was ordered to the front, and 
never did men nbcy sucli ordcT wilii more alac- 
rity. 

Al abnul I :;)() o'clock on that hot June after- 
lUMin, the 'I'e.xas Hrigade, under the eye of Lee, 
led by the gallant Hood, 8wei)t forward to storm 
the ("enter of the enemy's ])osition. The Fourth 
'I'e.xas on the right, to its left the Kightecntii 
(Ji'orgia (tiien rorniiiig a part of tlie brigide), 
then the First and Fifth 'I'e.xas, and on the e.\- 
treme left of the brigade llanijiton's IjCgion, 
then also a j)art of llic eoniniand. From the 
nature of the ground the Fourtli 'I'e.xas had 
far the more dillieult ta.sk of any regiinenl in 
the brigade, for in addition to the fortilied po- 
sition of the enemy across the branch which 
they were; to storm, they were to make the at- 
tack across an open field in front of the I''e<l- 
eral position, while the balance of the command 
moved to the assault under cover of llie thick 
woods in their front. 

As we moved into the fight each soldier of 
the brigade felt that the crisis of tie liattle had 
come, that the hour of destiny had struck. We 
knew that assault after a.s.sanlt had hem made 
all along our lines from 2 to I o'clock, only lo 
be repulsed with terrible loss, and around and 
before us were evidences of a fearful sti'uggle, 
for the dead and dying of the commands which 
had preceded us lay thick upon the ground, 
while the remnant of that advancing (olumn, 
demoralized and beaten, was retiring through 
our ranks in disorder and confusion, telling the 
soldiers of the brigade, as we neared the enemy, 
"not to go in there; that it was death; that the 
enemy's )>ositioii could not be taken." Rut V' s 
only added to our determination to break the 
lines of the enemy or jicrish in th(> allciir I. 
And undismayed the citizen soldiery of 'I'cx's 
moved steadily forward with the ma'estie tread 
of trained veterans. The First and l'"ifth Reg- 
iment.'!, with the Kighteenth (Icoigia and 
llampt<m's Legion, as stated before, charged 
tlu> enemy through the w^oods, and their task 
was not as severe as that of the Fourth, \\hich 
charged across an ojicn (ield undei- a murderous 
fire of the enemy's infantry and artillery Tr 
near half a mile. PmiI led as they were, by the 
immortal Hood, tbcv did it beautifully, 
grandly. 

In the language of (icncral Hood hiics'lf: 
"Onward wc marched under a constantiv in- 



creasing shower of shot and shell, whilst to our 
right could be seen some of our troojjs making 
their way to the rear, and others lying down 
beneath a galling lire. Our ranks were thiniicil 
al almost every step forward, and jiioporlion- 
alely to the growing fury of the storm of pro- 
jectiles. Soon we attained the crest of the bald 
ridge, within about l.'jO yards of the breast- 
works, llei'c was concentrated ujion us from 
batteries in front and Hank a lire of shell aud 
canister, which plowed through our ranks with 
deadly ctl'ect, Alii'ady the gallant Colonel Mar- 
shall, together with many other brave men, had 
fallen victims in this bloody onset. At a quick- 
ened pace we continued to advance without fir- 
ing a shot, down the slojie over a body of our 
soldiers lying on the giound aud across Pow- 
liite Creek, when amid the fearful roar of mus- 
ketry and artillery 1 gave llu' order to fix bay- 
onets and cliaigc. With a ringing shout we 
(lashed up the steeii hill, through the abattis 
and over the breastworks ujion the very heads 
of the enemy. The Federals, jianic stricken, 
lushed pi'eci])itately to the I'car upon the in- 
fantry in sujiport of the artillery. Suddenly 
the whole joined in flight toward the valfy hc- 
yond." 

While the Fourth was iiiaking this gk)rious 
charge, equal to any in the annals of war, the 
First and Fifth, with the Kighteenth Georgia 
and Hampton's Legion, were nobly fighting 
and charging in their front, and siniultaneous- 
Iv with the breach made by the Fourth, they 
swept the Federals from their front, and tlie 
enemy's center once pierced, they soon gave way 
all along their line, and as our victorious troops 
emergiMl ujion the high jilatcau latelv lu^ld by 
the enemy, as the shades of c\eniiig were gath- 
ering fast. We beheld the Federal ai'iiiy, broken 
in every ])art, in full retreat toward its bridgis 
on the Chickabomiiiy. The coming night alone 
saved that wing of jMeClellan's aiiny from utter 
ruin. \t is was, our victory was complete, and 
although our own losses were heavy, they were 
not heavier than the enemy's. 

As stated before, night put an end to the bat- 
tle and to our ])ursuit, and the remnant of 
Fitz John Porter's Corj s, under cover of dark- 
ness, esca])cd across the bridges of the Chicka- 
liominy and joined JlcClellan's forces isouth of 
that stream, whence they retreated to th(> 
James. Cencral i\!eClclian calls this a medi- 
tated change of base. He that as it may, t' e 
truth remains that if such was his previous in- 
tention, the result of the battle of (Raines' Mill 
greatly exjiedited that change. 

The battle of Ciaines' Mill was the battle of 
all others which inspired our troops with con- 
lidenee in themselves and their great com- 



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niaiider, Gcncnil Leo. It was (he battle wliifli 
taiif,'lit tlie Confederate troo|i.s in \'ir;:iiiia liow 
to will vietory, and was the I'ororunner of tlio 
series of splendid achievements which hence- 
forth attended Lee's army. 

Others have ehiiiued tlie credit of beinfj tlio 
first to break the Federal lines at Ciaines' Mill, 
notably (ien. 1). II. Hill, who commanded the 
extreme left of the t'on federate army. Fortu- 
nately the claim of the Te.xas Brigade to this 
honor does not depend solely on the testimony 
of themselves, for in addition we have as wit- 
nes.ses General Lee, wiio commanded the Con- 
federate army, and General Jackson, who com- 
manded on our part of the field, and besides we 
have the evidence of the Federal commander. 
General Porter. Here is what General hce 
says: About 4:30 when General Hood was ]ire- 
jiaring to lead the Fourth Te.xas to storm the 
enemy's works, he met General IjCO, who an- 
nounced to him that our troops had been light- 
ing gallantly, but had not succeeded in dislodg- 
ing the enemy. He added this must be dr)ne 
and asked (ieneral Itood if he eo\ild do it. To 
which (fcneral Hood replied he would try. Gen- 
eral Jackson, with reference to this charge of 
the Fourth Te.xas, says officially: "In tliis 
charge, in which upward of 1,000 men fell 
killed and wounded before the fire of the en- 
emy, in which 10 ])ieces of artillery and nearly 
a regiment was captured, the Fourth Texas, un- 
der the command of General Hood, was the 
first to pierce their strongholds and seize the 
guns. Although swept from their defenses by 
this rapid and almost matchless display of dar- 
ing and desperate valor, the well disciplined 
Federals continued in retreat to fight with stub- 
born resistance." And he further remarked 
"that the men who carried this position were 
sohliers indeed." 

General Fitz John I'orter, the Federal com- 
mander, says: "As if for a final effort, as 
the shades of evening were coming upon us, and 
the woods were tilled with smoke, limiting tlu' 
view therein to a few yards, the enemy again 
massed his fresher and reformed regiments and 
turned them in rapid succession against our 
thinned and wearied battalions, now almost 
without ammunition, and with guns .so foul that 
they could not be loaded rapidly. The attacks, 
though coming like a series of irresistible aval- 
anches, liad thus far made no inroads upon our 
firm and disciplined ranks. Even in this last 
attack we successfully resisted, driving back 
our assailants with immense loss, or holding 
them beyond our lines, except in one instance 
near the center of Morrell's line, where, by 
force of numbers and under cover of the smoke 
of battle, our line was penetrated and broken. 



Morrell's line of battle wii.s opposite the position 
carried by the Texas Brigade. 

1 pass hurriedly to the second battle of Ma- 
nassas, where the Texas Brigade was again des- 
tined to turn the tide of war. It is not neces- 
sary to recount how we arrived upon that field, 
further than to state that the seven days' battles 
around {Richmond had driven McClellan to seek 
a new base, an<l he had taken boat and gone to 
the neighborhoo<l of \Vasliing((ui, and Ia'.q was 
merely seeking him out. Meantime McClellan 
had been superseded, and Tope was in com- 
mand of the army. On the same battlefield 
which had witnessed the first great shock of 
arms between the Federal and Confederate 
forces in 1801 on the 29th of August, ISfiS, 
General I'ope, with about l.^O.OOO I^'ederal 
troops confronted (ieneral Ia'q in comnumd of 
about 7r),000 Confederates. During the greater 
j)art of the 2!)th a fierce conflict raged between 
the forces of Jackson on the Confederate left 
and the Federal troops opposite him, but noth- 
ing appears to have been gained on either side 
except the loss of many lives. The morning of 
the .'iOth dawned bright and clear, the atmos- 
l)here was heavy, and every man felt that today 
I he decisive battle viould be fought, but sonuv 
how the morning passed and the real struggle 
had not begun. In the evening the fighting 
again began on the left of our lino. At about 4 
o'clock the battle was taken up along our center 
and right, and at 4 -MO the Texas Brigade was 
ordered to charge. The troops nuned at a rapid 
pace some .'iOO or 400 yards, before the enemy 
was enco\intered, and here a strange scene oc- 
curred. The Fifth and Tenth New York Zou- 
aves, clad in their splendid red uniforms, op- 
posed th(> advance of the Fifth Texas Hegi- 
meut. They were [)o.stcd in the edge of a wood, 
with an open country sloping to a creek some 
200 yards in their rear. As the regiment near- 
ed the enemy in a rapid charge, they delivered 
one deadly volley and then before they could 
reload tlu! Texans were upon them, and the 
Federals turned and fled, and it is no exaggera- 
tion to say that hillside was strewn thick with 
th(! flower of those two regiments. An observer 
said that it was po.ssiblo to walk on corp.ses from 
the edge of the wood to the creek, so thickly 
were they strewn. Our troops did not pause, but 
swept forward like a cyclone. They passed the 
creek ])ursuing the Feilerals up the hillside be- 
yond, and when they neared the crest, they 
found themselves confronted by a line of blue, 
standing in a declivity, and beyond them and 
over their heads played upon the (Confederates 
shot and shell from a battery. There was no 
time to pause, for in such a crisis he who hesi- 
tates is lost, and the regiment pressed boldly 
forward. Time after time the flag of this regi- 



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nient went down, but as fast as one standard 
bearer fell another seized the colors, and the 
regiment pressed bravely on until this line of 
biUtle wa;; broken and fled incontinenl'y from 
the field, and the battle was ours. And still 
another line of battle of the enemy was broken, 
until this regiment, which, as General Hood 
says: "Slipped the bridle and pierced to the 
ver}- heart of the enemy," found itself almost 
surrounded, when it had to make a flank move- 
ment in order to shelter itself in the timber. 
To show how severe and deadly was this con- 
flict, the regiment lost seven standard-bearers 
killed : the flag-staff was shot in two, and the 
fl;!g itself was pierced with 27 bullets and had 
three bomb scorches on it. 

It is not claimed here that the Fifth Texas 
wa- the first to breach the enemy's lines, as is 
claimed for the Fourth at Gaines' Mill, as the 
movement on our part of the field seemed to 
have been general and the enemv* gave way all 
along the line, though if any other regiment 
accomplished any greater results than the Fifth 
at the Second Manassas the annals of the war 
fail to show it. 

At Antietam or Sharpsburg, 17 days later, 
the Texas Brigade materially aided Lee to re- 
pulse and hold the enemy at bay, thus winning 
another victory. At this time, by the long 
marches of the campaign and by the casualties 
of battles, the effective force of the three regi- 
ments, all told, was about 850. On our part 
of tl;e field, which was the left, we constituted 
both support and reser\-e. 

On this battle ground about 35,000 Confeder- 
ate troops confronted about 140,000 Federals 
under General McCleUan, who had again re- 
sumed command of the Army of the Potomac. 
The conflict on our part of the field began 
about sunrise, and soon raged fiercely in our 
immediate front. The word came that the Bri- 
gades of Lawton, Trimble and Hays were be- 
ing hard pressed and Hood's Division, composed 
of an Alabama brigade under Law, and the 
Texas Brigade, under Colonel Wofford of the 
Eighteenth Georgia, were ordered forward. 
When the troops emerged from the timber and 
passed the old church and into the open corn 
field a herculean task lay before them. Down 
the slant of the hill stood the remnant of the 
division before mentioned. They still held their 
]X)sition, but were unable to advance. Beyond 
them in the open and in the timber stood a 
solid field of blue, at least three columns deep. 
To an observer it looked as if the whole of 
Hooker's Corps was there. As we occupied .i 
position on the hill and above the Confederate 
line in front, the fire of the enemy played havoc 
in the ranks of the supporting column. In vain 
did the officers in charge of Havs' and Trim- 



ble's Brigade urge them to charge; and in vain 
did the Texas Brigade add its entreaties to 
theirs. The line would neither advance nor re- 
treat ; its ranks were decimated, and its fire 
was ineffective. Suddenly, as if moved by a 
single impulse, the Texans. unable to be re- 
strained longer by their commanding officers, 
charged over the line of our own troops and 
swept upon the advancing foe like an irresisti- 
ble avalanche. In the twinkling of an eye, the 
enemv wavered, turned and fled — still the Bri- 
gade pressed forward until two other lines of 
the enemy were broken and driven from th-j 
field and through the wood and were routed 
from behind a stone wall, where they sought 
shelter. Not receiving an expected support, it 
was beyond human endurance to advance fur- 
ther; but here the line rested, and was held 
through that bloody day, resisting assault after 
assault of the enemy. But for this terrific and 
successful assault on the part of Hood's Division 
our left center would have been broken, the left 
wing of the army turned, and the fords on the 
Potomac captured by the enemy and Lee's army 
shut in between the Antietam and the Potomac. 
By members of the brigade who were engaged 
in nearly every battle in Virginia and Mary- 
land, Sharpsburg. on account of its sanguinary 
and protracted character, has been characterized 
as the hardest fought battle of the war. 

General Hood, who won his rank of Major- 
General for gallantry on that day, speaks of this 
charge in the following language : "Here I wit- 
nessed the most terrible clash of arms by far 
that has occurred during the war. Two little 
giant brigades of my command wrestled "vith the 
mighty force, and although they lost hundreds 
of their officers and men, they drove them from 
their position, and forced them to abandon their 
guns on our left." 

This battle completed the campaign of 1862, 
and established for the Texas Brigade a repu- 
tation for bravery and courage, which was not 
excelled by that of any troops in General Lee'? 
army : and their noble example was an inspira- 
tion not only in Virginia, but throughout the 
West, and caused emotions of joy and pride to 
thrill the hearts of our countrvmen throughout 
the entire South. The brigade had thus won its 
spurs, but at the cost of the best and bravest 
in its rank^;; and the task henceforth devolved 
on the survivors to sustain the reputation which 
they had so heroically won. Though the task 
was difficult, I am proud to say they sustained 
the glon' of their achievements on almost every 
battlefield in which the Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia wa^ engaged. At Gettv-sburg, at Chicka- 
mauga and the Wilderness thev added new lus- 
ter to their name, and they kept their fame un- 



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tarnished until the end of the struggle at Appo- 
mattox. 

Hitherto I have told of their deeds; but I 
will here quote what some of the illustrious sol- 
diers, under whose eye they fought, said of 
them, so that it may be seen in what estimation 
they were held in that army. 

Here is what General Hood, who, if he does 
not stand so high as some others as a tactician 
or strategist, takes rank with the bravest of the 
brave as a soldier and a fighter. He says : "That 
so highly wrought were the pride and self-re- 
liance of these troops that they believed they 
could carve their way through almost any num- 
ber of the enemy's lines formed in an open 
field in their front." And again he says: "Ixing 
and constant service with this noble brigade 
must prove a sufficient apologv" for a brief ref- 
erence at this juncture to its extraordinary mil- 
itary record. From the hour of its first encoun- 
ter with the enemy at Eltham's Landing on 
York river in 1862, to the surrender of Appo- 
mattox Court House, in almost every battle in 
Virginia, it bore a conspicuous part. It acted as 
the advance guard of Jackson when he moved 
upon McClellan around Richmond, and almost 
without an exceptional instance, it was among 
the foremost of Longstreefs Corps in an attack 
or pursuit of the enemy. It was also, as a rule, 
with the rear guard of this corps, whenever 
falling back before the adversary. If a ditch 
was to be leaped, or fortified position to be car- 
ried. General Lee knew no better troops upon 
which to rely. In truth, its signal achievements 
in the war of secession have never been surpass- 
ed in the history of nations." 

And hear what the greatest military chief- 
tain of modern times. General Robert E. Lee, 
addressing General Wigfall, on the 21st of Sep- 
tember. 1862, just after Sharpsburg, writes : 
"General, I have not heard from you with re- 
gard to the new Texas regiments which you 
promised to raise for the army. I need them 
very much. I rely upon those we have in all 
our tight places, and fear I have to call upon 
them too often. They have fought grandly and 
nobly, and we must have more of them. Please 
make every possible exertion to get them on 
for me. You must help us in this matter. With 
a few more regiments such as Hood now has, 
as an example of daring and braver}', I could 
feel more confident of the campaign." 

I have thus dwelt on some of the events of 
the campaign of 1862 in which the Texas Bri- 
gade participated, not for the purpose of un- 
duly boasting nor of drawing a comparison be- 
tween the achievements of these troops and that 
of other Confederate troops or of other Texas 
troops who may have fought in Johnston's army 



or on this side of the Mississippi. They only did 
their duty as soldiers ; and if this litrtle band of 
Texans was more conspicuous or accomplished 
greater results than their brothers on other 
fields, it was doubtless because they were better 
disciplined and better led. In other words, they 
were afforded a better opportunity to display 
their courage, and simply demonstrated what, 
under the same conditions, other Texans would 
have done. All no doubt did their best in the 
great struggle which taxed the courage and en- 
ergies of the people of the South. And how 
near we came to achieving success in the mighty 
struggle, none but the God of Battles, who 
shapes the destinies of nations, can ever know. 
Xo doubt it was He who, on Shiloh's bloody 
field, directed the unconscious aim of the Fed'- 
eral soldier who fired the shot which struck 
down the great commander of the Western 
Army, Albert Sidney Johnston, and thus turn- 
ed victory for our arms into defeat. Evidently it 
was the guiding hand of the great unseen Archi- 
tect of Nations who brought the Monitor into 
the waters of the Chesapeake to grapple in 
deadly conflict with the Merrimac for the su- 
premacy of the seas. And we concede that ii 
was He who delayed Ewell's coming until the 
heights of Gettysburg were crowned with the 
Federal army under General Meade, and thus 
pitted the impregnable mountains against the 
fierce assaults of the cohorts of Lee under the 
gallant and daring Pickett. It was never in- 
tended by the Divine Hand that this nation as 
a nation should perish from the earth; on the 
contrary, cemented by the blood of its bravest 
and best, it was foreordained that it should con- 
tinue to live, to bless and guide the nations of 
the earth. And I have no doubt that the time 
will come when this great Republic as a nation 
will feel proud of the courage and achievements 
of the Southern soldier and will revere the 
names of Lee and Jackson as it now reveres the 
names of Grant and Sheridan. 

I am not unmindful that there be those who 
would rob us of our title to courage and honor ; 
all that remains to us as a result of the war. 
But of this rest assured, they are not of the 
soldiers who fought in that struggle. These, 
if they would, could not afford to disparage our 
courage or bravery, for on this pedestal rests 
their own prowess and fame. For, take notice 
of this fact, no nation will discredit its own 
deeds of heroism ; all men love glory, and all 
men admire courage, and without courage and 
love of glory a nation is doomed. 

While the harvest of death through four 
long years of terrible war enriched our soil with 
the blood of our purest and noblest, it was not 



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shed in vain, for in that martyrdom wliich tried 
men's souls our people coined a reputation for 
courage and duty, for patriotism and love or 
country, which glorified them, and of which 
notliing can ever roh or despoil us. That honor 



and courage henceforth is consecrated to the 
preservation of the nation, and we will trans- 
mit it as a precious legacy to our children. May 
they not forget the immortal dead; may they 
emulate their example. 



HOOD'S BRIGADE REMINISCENCES. 



Old Company B, Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's Te.xas Brigade, Army of Northern 
Virginia, and What Has Become of Them. 



BY VAL C. GILES. 



The Tom Green Rifles were organized at Aus- 
tin, Texas, early in the spring of 1861. 

They first went into camp of instructions 
near San ilarcos and later on at Harrisburg, 
near Houston. 

They were mustered into the Confederate 
service July 11, 1861, and when the Texas Bri- 
gade was formed at Richmond, Ya., they were 
assigned to tlie Fourth Texas Regiment as Com- 
pany B, and partici])ated in nearly all the great 
battles fought by the army of Xorthern Vir- 
ginia, and surrendered at Appomattox with 
General Robert E. Lee. 

I have tried to keep track of my old com- 
pany for the last 35 years, and in the main 
this roll is correct. Val C. Giles. 

Austin, Texas. 

B. F. Carter, Captain: Promoted Lieuten- 
ant Colonel, Julv 10, 1862, and killed at the 
Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, while in 
command of the Fourth Texas Regiment; an 
educated gentleman, a fine lawyer and thorough 
soldier. 

W. C. Walsh, First Lietitenant: Promoted 
Captain, August 10, 1862, and permanentlv dis- 
abled at the Battle of Gaines' Jlill, Jtme 27, 
1862. Served as Commissioner of the General 
Land Office for eight years. Resides at Bar- 
ton Springs, near Austin. 

James G. JlcLaurin, Second Lieutenant : 
Promoted to First Lieutenant, July 19, 1862. 
Never missed a battle in which the regiment 
was engaged and surrendered the fragments of 
Company B at Appomattox. A Christian sol- 
dier and one of God's noblemen. He died in 
Mississippi 30 years ago. 

Robert J. Lambert, Third Lieutenant : .\ 
natural bom soldier, a brother of the late Col- 
onel Will Lambert of Houston. He was mor- 
tally wounded at the Battle of Gaines' Mill and 
died in Richmond, July 5, 1862. 



F. L. Price, First Sergeant: Promoted Ad- 
jutant, July 21, 1862. He was a son of a Brit- 
ish officer and was born in the West Indies. 
Was captured at Gettvsburg. Died in Austin in 
1882. 

Oliver Flusser, Second Sergeant: Born in 
Kentucky, partly educated at Annapolis. Killed 
in the old cornfield at Sharpsburg. 

51. C. McAnnelly, Tliird Sergeant: Rough 
mannered, kind hearted and brave. Killed at 
Second Manassas. 

T. W. Masterson, Fourth Sergeant: Promot- 
ed Third Lieutenant, August 15, 1862. Died in 
Brazoria county in 1870. 

John T. Price, Fifth Sergeant : Promoted 
Second Lieutenant, August 15, 1862. Killed in 
Williamson county, 1898. 

Niles Fawcett, First Corporal : Killed at Sec- 
ond Manassas. 

M. T. Xorris, Second Corporal: Got a fur- 
lough in the winter of 1862. Came back to 
Austin and killed a man who had insulted his 
aunt. Returned to Virginia, was promoted to 
Third Sergeant and was killed at Gettysburg. 

S. H. Burnham, Third Corporal : Killed at 
Second Manassas. 

Robert H. Clements, Fourth Corporal : Was 
a Lieutenant in the Texas navy during the 
davs of the Republic. Died at the Confederate 
Home in 1899. 

Adams, A. M., was Justice of the Peace in 
San Antonio for several j'ears and died in that 
city. . 

Adams, Lee, died in Richmond, 1861. 

Black, L., died in Virginia, 1862. 

Blakey, H. G., killed at Sharpsburg. 

Bonner, "Bud," died in Richmond, Xovem- 
ber, 1861. 

Bonner, Cal., lives near Austin. 



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Bonner, Wash, Eichland Springs, San Saba 
county. 

Barker, J. C, rough as a pine knot, loved his 
friends, hated his enemies and had his fun. 
Jim properly belonged to Company G, but 
Lieutenant iFcLaurin used to "Ijorrow" him 
occasionally from Captain J. W. Hutcheson to 
have fun out of him. 

As the regiment charged down the hill at 
Gaines' Jlill. Captain W. H. ilartin of "Old 
K" was in advance of his men with a dragoon 
six-shooter in each hand, making a Fourth of 
July speech as he went : ''Your homes and your 
firseside (bang), your wives and children 
(bang), your — " Just then a shell burst about 
five feet above the gallant old fellow's head au'l 
the "subsequent proceedings interested him no 
more." 

Jim saw it and sang out above the infernal 
roar: "Thar, by G , Martin's battery is si- 
lenced at last." 

But "Old Howdy" was not killed, and led 
Old K in and out of many a hot place after that. 

Old K. was the ugliest company in the regi- 
ment. Thev all looked alike. 

Bill Calhoun used to say that "Old Howdy'" 
would carry them through a long summer cam- 
paign, get two or three dozen of them killed, 
and next spring when the dog-fennel began to 
yellow the old red clay hills of Virginia, they 
would all come back again and answer to roll 
call — the same fellows. Glorious "Old Howdy;" 
he was faithful, kind and as true as steel. Peace 
to his memory. 

Jim Barker came back to Texas and was 
killed in some sort of a row out at Eagle Pass 
in 1869. I never learned the particulars. 

Burdet, Tom P., somewhere in Western 
Texas. 

Burdett, Mike, died in Virginia in 1862. 

Burdett, W. E., died near Austin in 1873. 

Bemham, Frank, in Caldwell count}', if 
living. 

Burk, J., an Irishman, severely wounded at 
the Wilderness. He never returned to Texas. 

Buchner, C. A., printer, Austin. 

Callalian, John. His father was a Brigadier- 
General in the Federal army. John was killed 
near Sergeant Flusser in the old cornfield at 
Sharpsburg. 

W. C. Calhoun, the wit and wag of the regi- 
ment. Just after the close of the war I heard 
he was running a ferryboat on the Calcasieu 
river in Louisiana, with a grocery on each bank, 
singing :— 

"On the wings of love I fly 
From groceree to grocerei." 



A few years ago I heard that he was thrown 
from a wagon and killed by a runaway team. 

Campbell, A. C, died in Austin in 1886. 

Carpenter, W. G., killed by a runaway team 
•22 3-ears ago. 

Cater, Tom E., merchant near Austin. 

Caton. W. H., wounded and discharged in 
1863. Have never heard of him since. 

Colvin, Garland (Snooks), lives at Watters 
Station, 10 miles north of Austin. Has been 
County Commissioner of that precinct for manv 
years. A hard fighter, a poor fiddler and a big 
eater. 

Chandler, W. M., died at LaGrange in 1886. 

Cooper, Sam, killed in Austin. 

Cook, Pit, badly wounded at Gettysburg; 
died in Austin 25 years ago. 

Cox, Louie B., died in Austin in 1897. 

Crozier, Granville, the smallest man in the 
company and the first one shot at the battle 
of Gaines' Mill. Just as Crozier fell General 
Hood galloped up, dismounted from his horse 
and walked rapidly to the front of the regiment, 
about faced, and in a clear ringing voice said : 
"Soldiers, I have come to fulfill a promise I 
made you when Colonel of your regiment. I 
promised to personally lead you in the first 
great battle. The time has come and I am 
here !" Eaising his sword to the level of his ej'e, 
holding the hilt in his right hand and the point 
in his left, he gave the command: "Forward, 
guide right!" He never said "march," for the 
regiment anticipated him and were in motion 
by the time the word "forward"' was out of his 
mouth. He went down the hill backwards, 
holding the sword at arms length, dressing the 
line as it advanced. Just as the men passed 
General Hood with a yell, Colonel John Mar- 
shall, who was riding a few yards in rear of the 
regiment, fell dead from his horse. A year ago 
Granville Crozier was living at Graham, Texas. 
He was postmaster of that little city during 
Mr. Cleveland's last administration. 

Donohue. J., transferred to a Louisiana regi- 
ment in 1862. 

Davidge, R. A., captured in the first Mary- 
land raid and wrote to Bill Calhoun by flag of 
truce that he was dead. He was an editor and 
poet. 

Bearing, James H., was one of Longstreet'« 
sharpshooters. He was killed through mistake 
by a North Carolina picket in June, 1864. He 
■was 6 feet 4 inches in height, flashy in his 
dress, and as noble-hearted as he was tall. 

Dohme, C. A., clerking in Austin. 

Dunklin, died September 2, 1862, and was 
buried at Fredericksburg. 



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Dunson, J. K. P., discharged in 1862, came 
back to Texas and died on Walnut Creek in 
Travis county. 

Durfee, A. A., died in Travis county in 1893. 
Flanikin, W. J., died at Webberville, Travis 
county, in 18G8. 

Falls, G., died in Virginia in 1863. 

Ford, W. F., promoted to Second Lieutenant 
in 18C3; was full of romance, poetry and song. 
Died in Texas in 1875. 

Foster, W. K., a printer; died in Georgetown 
in 1878. 

Freeman, "Poney," died in Riclimond in 
1862. 

Freeman, C. L., died in Georgia in 1895. 

Fawcett. B. K., wounded at Sharpsburg and 
discharged ; murdered by Mexicans on the Rio 
Grande in 1869. 

Gregg, Alex., son of the late Bishop Gregg, 
died at Old Dumfries, on the Potomac, Janu- 
ary, 1863. 

Girand, F. W., lives at Graham ; discharged 
in 1862. 

Glasscock, Tom A., in Blanco or San Saba 
county, if living. 

Gould, Uriah, lost in the fog in the moun- 
tains of East Tennessee, November, 1863. 

George, M. A., lost an arm at the Wilderness ; 
merchant in Albany, Texas. 

Grumbles. Perry B., killed at Gettysburg, 
July 3, 1863. 

Giles, Val C, wounded at Gaines' Mill, 
scared to death lots of times, promoted Second 
Sergeant at Gettysburg, captured by the 136th 
Regiment (all Dutch but one) on the nieht of 
the 28th of Oct., 1863, in Raccoon Valley, East 
Tennessee; was sent to Camp Morton, Indian- 
apolis, Ind., and escaped from there in Novem- 
ber, 1864, the day that Abraham Lincoln was 
elected President the second time; tramped 
through to Kentucky, crossing the Ohio river a 
few miles below Owensboro; joined Major Wal- 
ker Taylor's command ; Taylor was in tliat sec- 
tion of Kentucky at that time recruiting for 
General Buckner; was paroled in Louisville, 
April 28, 1865, by General Palmer, who com- 
manded the Department of Kentucky at the 
close of the war ; returned home in September, 
1865, after an absence of four years and five 
months, and, thank the Lord, am here yet. 

Griffith. John, fell in love with everv pretty 
girl he met; as we went into Maryland the sec- 
ond time, he waded the Potomac at Williams- 
port, singing "Life on the Ocean Wave," and 
as we came out of that country at Falling Wa- 
ter, he crossed the old, rickety pontoon bridge 



repeating the lines from Moore, "0, ever thus 
'from childhood's hour," etc. ; somewhere in 
Mississippi, if living. 

Ilamiltdn, II., died in Virginia in July, 
1862. 

Hamby, Wm. R., handsomest man in the 
regiment ; severely wounded at Second Manas- 
sas and before recovery went into battle of 
Sharpsburg — without shoes — but came out 
shod. After the war closed he went to Nash- 
ville, Tenn., and when Porter was elected gov- 
ernor of that state he appointed Flamby as Ad- 
jutant General : later on he returned to Texa^. 
represented Travis county in the li'srishiture. 
and is now President of the Citizens' Bank and 
Trust Company. 

Hamilton, S. W., have lo-t his trail. 

Haralson, C. L.. graduated at Annapolis, was 
transferred to the Confederate Navy in 1863 
and died of cholera at Galveston in 1866. 

Hawthorn, A. J., a relative of the author of 
that name; disch;irged in 1862; have never 
heard from him since. 

Horton, W. H., v.lien he quit flighting h'- 
went to preaching; in Arkansas, if living: in 
Heaven, if dead. 

Haynes, J. J., (litter bearer) ; the late Gen- 
eral J. B. Robertson used to say that Hayne? 
was the bravest man in Lee's army ; at the bat- 
tle of (Jettysburg, as he was going in for "an- 
other load," a shell struck the soft earth about 
six feet in front of him and exploded almost un- 
der his feet; the old General said that he could 
see nothing but dust, pieces of litter, etc., flying 
through the air for a few seconds ; then he saw 
Ilaj-nes rise. Phoenix-like, draw his sleeve 
across his dusty brow, pick up his old wool hat, 
wave it high over his head and shout at the top 
of his voice, "Hurrah for Hell — damn you, 
shoot again !" Have not heard from him since 
the close of the war. 

Henderson, J. B., loved poker better than 
wa r. 

Hill, L. I)., company [ihysician ; prescribed 
"I'inetop" whiskey at Escobar's Store, La., 
while on our way to Virginia as an antidote for 
mosquito bites; was a member of the Twenty- 
Fifth Legislature ; is now surgeon in charge of 
the Confederate Home, Austin. 

Hoffler, G. W., a North Carolinian; was 
killed at Sharpsburg. 

Holden, D. W., don't know what has become 
of him. 

Hopson, B. W., lives in Fayette county. 

Howard, Bob, killed at Sharpsburg. 

Howard, Jeff, in San Saba county, if living; 
he and Bob were brothers. 

Hughes, J. J., died near Austin, 1867. 



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Horn, P. (one of the "Trombusky Mess") ; 
has been on furlough for 37 years. 

Herbert, Phillip, son of the Confederate 
Congressman Herbert from Texas ; played the 
guitar and sang like a lark ; died in Virginia in 
1862. 

Jones, A. C, discharged in August, 1863. 

Jones, Elanial, pulled the boots off a wound- 
ed Yankee officer at the battle of Ethan'o 
Landing, "so the fellow could rest," but kept 
the boots; died in Virginia in 1863. 

Jones, Joe E. ; died in East Tennessee about 
three years ago; the Confederate Veteran paid 
him a fine tribute and produced his picture at 
the time of his death ; he was a noble little fel- 
low. 

Jones, J. K. P. ; a gallant soldier ; killed at 
the battle of Chickamauga. 

Keller, W. H.; died in the Panhandle 20 
years ago. 

Keller, J. H. ; discharged; died in Austin in 
1870. 

L«ssing, W. H. ; the youngest man in the 
regiment unless it was Dick Pinckney ; prac- 
ticing law in Waco. 

Lightfoot, ^\. H.; is a preacher; do not know 
his address. 

Luckett, Alf. T. ; the only man in Company 
B that ever received a bayonet wound in battle. 
He had a quarrel with Lieutenant James T. Mc- 
Laurin after the battle of Second Manassas and 
swore that he would never speak to the Lieu- 
tenant again, "except officially." At the battle 
of Sharpsburg there was considerable confusion 
in the old cornfield. Orders were misconstrued 
and at one time the command got badly mixed 
up. Alf was fighting away, loading and shooting 
as fast as he could, and had not noticed that 
jiart of the regiment had taken shelter behind 
a rock fence near bv. Looking around, he saw 
Lieutenant McLaurin standing alone between 
two com rows, fanning himself with his hat 
and dead men all around him. The idea struck 
Alf that all of Company B had been killed but 
himself and the Lieutenant ; dusty, powder- 
stained and hatless, he rushed up to the Lieu- 
tenant, extended his right hand and said: 
"Lieutenant Jim, we are all that's left of old 
Company B; let's make friends and die togeth- 
er." They had a hearty shake right there, where 
the minie balls were fh'ing thick and fast. It 
was in that fight that he received a bayonet 
wound in the cheek. He died in Williamson 
county in 1873. 

Maier, H. ; killed at Sharpsburg. 

Marcham, E. ; I heard years ago that he died 
of yellow fever in 1866 ; have heard since that 



he was not dead, but I have not been able to 
learn the truth about it. 

Mayfield, Xewton W. (Old Burnsides) ; died 
near Austin in 1892. 

Mayfield, Eph. ; resides near Austin. 

Minor, Arthur; a mere boy; came to us in 
1862 as a recruit; died in Kichmond, 1862. 

McGhee, John F. ; lives at San Marcos. 

McMath, M. W. ; died in Virginia in 1862. 

McMullen, "Barney;" Barney was a dandy, 
a noble heart«d Irishman; died in Corpus 
Christi. 

McPhaul, C. M. (litter bearer) ; have not 
heard from him since the surrender. 

Masterson, A. E., captured a red artillery 
cap and got all the crown shot out of it at Get- 
tysburg; gave the scraps to a Dutch farmer as 
a souvenir and marched bareheaded to Hagers- 
town, Maryland ; lives in Brazoria county. 

Millican, Ed H. ; lives in Lampassas. 

Mosley, Sidney E. ; lost a leg in battle ; a 
good soldier and thorough gentleman ; died in 
Austin in 1870. 

Moss, W. C. ; died six years ago in Missouri. 

Mooris, C. L. ; killed on the skirmish line 
near Knoxville, Tenn., on Longstreet's return 
to Virginia. 

Huendoff , Max ; died at San Antonio in 
1885. 

Nichols, A. W. ; night watchman at the Cap- 
itol ; lives in Austin. 

Nichols, George W. ; killed at the battle of 
Chickamauga. 

Piper, W. L. ; died near Austin in 1885. 

Plagge, C, musician; died in San Antonio. 

Puckett, Lem; had himself captured on our 
retreat from Suffolk. 

Puryear, Wm. F. ; lives somewhere in the 
Colorado mountains. 

Eailey, J. D. ; died in Waco three years ago. 

Eice, A. E. ("Old Pontoon") ; Bill Calhoun 
said that in the stampede at Eaccoon Valley 
on the night of October 28, 1863, the old man 
was one of the first to pull out when the order 
came to "fall back;" on attempting to cross n 
ditch the old fellow fell on his hands and 
knees and half the regiment made a pontoon 
out of him ; I met him about 20 years ago and 
he told me he thought he had found a gold 
mine up in "Palapinty" county. I have not seen 
or heard of him since. 

Eoberts, A. S.; wounded at Second Manassas; 
courier for Hood; has been Major-General of 
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way with the United States Postoffice Depart- 
ment; travels most of the time. 

Robertson, George L. ; was left on the battle- 
field at Sharpsburg for dead; recovered, return- 
ed to Texas and died in Austin in 1898. 

Robertson, R. R. (Radway's Ready Relief) ; 
promoted to First Sergeant; a fine soldier, a 
good business man and a walking encyclopedia 
of practical knowledge; died in Austin in 1891. 

Rose, George W. ; a fiddler of the way-back, 
rack-back Davy kind; celebrated his golden 
wedding three years ago and died in Travis 
county in 1898. ' 

Rushton, Charles H. ; lived in Brazoria ; died 
two years ago. 

Rust, R. S. ; promoted to Orderly Sergeant; 
badly wounded at Sharpsburg; died in Austin 
in 1885. 

Ripetoe, J. ; killed, but I have forgotten 
where. 

Stovis, F. K. ; absent without leave; we 
picked him up on our way to Virginia; we 
finally lost him, but I don't remember where. 

Strohmer, Frank ; lives on the Perdinalis. 

Summers, John S. ; a Kentuckian; killed at 
Gaines' Mill. 

Sims, James, died at the Confederate Home 
in 1896. 

Tannerhill, Wm. J. ; lives near Bertram in 
Burnet county. 

Sheppard, J. L. ; died at Dumfries, on the 
Potomac, in the winter of 18G1. 

Schuler, John; killed at Sharpsburg. 

Simmons, E. ; discharged in 1862; have nev- 
er heard of him since. 

Stanley, A. E. ; lost since the war. 

Stein, Isaac; lost an arm at Second Manas- 
sas ; was a merchant in Austin for many years ; 
died in 1898. 

Stone, Dock ; lives near Austin ; in 1863 he 
was transferred to Terry's Rangers. 

Tatum, J. M.; died in Virginia in 1862. 

Taylor, S. C; discharged August 16, 1862, 
and has been lost ever since. 

Teague, S. P. ; Henderson's poker partner. 

Thomas, James H. ; belonged to my mess : 
told us the night before the battle of Second 
Manassas that he had a presentiment he would 
be killed in the next battle; the next day he 
was shot dead on the field ; if there was a Chris- 
tian among us it was Jimmie Thomas. 

Thomas, Mark; died near Austin 30 years 
ago. 

Thornton, L. C. ; died at Marshall, Texas, in 
1868. 



Todd, D. A. ; a good soldier and a good citi- 
zen ; died on his farm, eight miles south of Aus- 
tin in 1899. 

Walker, G. H. ; died in Virginia. 

Wheeler, John G. ; was my bunk mate in 1863 
and has never forgiven me for letting the Yan- 
kees capture me and all our blankets one cold 
night in East Tennessee; he lost an arm at the 
Wilderness ; is now a merchant at Manor, Texas. 

Wiile, J. A. ; a mysterious young doctor who 
joined us in Virginia ; he was an Alabamian ; 
messed by himself ; said but little and was an 
enigma to all; he died in Richmond in 1863. 

Wilson, Sam C. ; thrown from a horse and 
killed near Georgetown in 1868. 

Wright, J. A. ; met him five years ago, but 
don't know where he is living. 

Wright, P. A. ; died in Delaware in July, 
1862. 

Woodward, Logan ; died in hospital in Rich- 
mond in 1861. 

WHiitesides, H. ; an Irishman, a brave soldiev 
— wounded many times during the war; never 
returned to Texas. 

Price, John (colored) ; the muster roll of 
old Company B would not be complete without 
Uncle John ; his master, John T. Price, former 
sheriff of Travis county, took John with him 
as body servant and cook ; he was faithful to the 
end, although he had many opportunities to go 
to his so-called friends, the Federals; ho died 
at the Travis county poor farm two months ago. 

Johnson, Henry- (colored) ; company barber 
and Colonel Carter's body servant; buried his 
master at Gettysburg, and died in Baltimore in 
1864. 

"Candy," the little white dog, went with the 
company from Austin and became a great favor- 
ite with the regiment ; when George L. Robert- 
son lay wounded at the field hospital at Sharps- 
burg he saw a band wagon parading the camj) 
with the little rebel a prisoner ; engraved on his 
collar was "Candy, Co. B, 4th Texas Rcg't." 
He got lost from his company and regiment in 
the old cornfield and was captured by the ene- 
my. At the battle of Gaines" Mill he became sep- 
arted from us and next morning when the bury- 
ing detail was sent out from the regiment they 
found "Candy'' cuddled up under the arm of 
poor John Summers, who was killed the even- 
ing before. There was not a man in the regi- 
ment who would not have divided the last piece 
of "hardtack" he had with "Candy." He never 
swam a river or waded through the mud unless 
he wanted to. There was always some soldier 
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saw our little mascotte after the Battle of 
Sharpsburg, September IT, 1862. 

Of the ten original Captains of the Fourth 
Texas Regiment that went out in the spring 
of 1861, Colonel Ed H. Cunningham of Sugar- 
land is the only one now living. 

Captain J. G. C. Key of Company E died 
many years ago at Gonzales. 

Captain B. F. Carter of Company B was kill- 
ed at Gettysburg. 

Captain W. P. Townsend, Company C, lost 
a leg at Second Manassas, and died on the 
Brazos 20 years ago. 

Captain J. P. Bane, Company D, was wound- 
ed several times during the war. and died at the 
Confederate Home at Richmond, Va., years ago. 



Captain Ed D. Ryan of Company E was kill- 
ed at the battle of Gaines' Mill. 

Captain Ed Cunningham commanded Com- 
pany F. 

Captain J. W. Hutcheson of Company G was 
killed at Gaines' Mill. 

Captain P. P. Porter of Company H was kill- 
ed at Gaines' Mill. 

Captain C. M. Winkler of Company I passed 
through it all, and died at Austin while a mem- 
ber of the Court of Appeals. 

Captain William H. Martin (glorious old 
'•Howdy") of Company K, like Captain Wink- 
ler, bore a charmed life in the army, and died 
at Hillsboro two years ago. 



REUNION AT MARLIN, TEXAS, JUNE 26-27, 1903. 



Hood's Brigade Reunion. Gathering at Marlin of the Famous Texas Regiments that Never 
Failed to Participate in a Fight When the Opportunity Offered. Sketch of the Dauntless 
Leader. Loss of an Arm and Then a Leg Could Not Keep Gen. Hood Off the Battle- 
field. What Lee Thought of the Texas Regiments. The Flag Made by Mrs. 
Young Returned to Her After Its Strenuous Duty Had Been Performed. 



"For Dixie's Land they took their stand, 
To live or die for Dixie." 

Marlin feels today that a great honor has 
been bestowed upon her. The people of this 
city welcome the reunion of Hood's Texas 
Brigade with open doors, hospitable homes and 
warm hearts. To these old soldiers is given the 
kev to the city, and they are invited to take 
the best that Marlin has. They are here from 
all sections of the State, and nothing is being 
left undone by the citizens of Marlin that will 
redound to the comfort and pleasure of our 
venerated guests. The United Sons of Confed- 
erate Veterans, the Daughters of the Confed- 
eracy and all citizens of Marlin are bending 
their energies with the various Confederate 
camps of the county to the end of entertaining 
this honored assembly with genuine Sov.thern 
hospitality, and with that kind and generous 
liberality peculiar to Texas at large and to Falb 
Coimty in particular. The sons and daughters 
of the South r^".;ard with the stronsresr senti- 
ments of respect and esteem the soldiers of the 
Southern cause: hence, their efforts upon this 
occasion are inspired by the highest and noblest 
sensibilities that can spring from the hearts of 
worthy sons and daughters of noble sires. 

But who can review the pages of true history 



without feeling a sharp thrill of admiration 
for these old warriors, now stooped with the 
weight of years and grizzled with the hoar of 
time? In the distinguished valor of the South- 
em soldiery the courage and heroism of Hood's 
Texas Brigade occupies a prominent position. 
We read of this famous brigade at the battle 
of Gaines' Mill, in that fearful struggle that 
lasted from early in the evening till after night- 
fall, when charge after charge was made by the 
Confederates, only to be repulsed, and when, 
just as the last golden rays of a setting sun 
were fading behind the hills to the west, and 
the shadows had stretched out to their great- 
est length in the swamps of Chickahominy, 
when many Southern hearts had grown faint in 
anticipation of defeat, and Southern soMiera 
were groaning and bleeding and pnying and 
dving on the crimson battlefield; wh^n Rich- 
mond was trembling and the fate of the city 
hung on the result of this battle, it was just in 
that fearful moment that one grand and never 
to be forgotten charge was made by the Con- 
federates, in which Whiting's Division, con- 
sisting of Hood's and Lane's brigades, made a 
mighty sweep down a slope to a ravine opposite 
the right of the Union line. The Union mus- 
ketry roared, the Southern soldier saw comrade 



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after comrade fall by the leaden me.-sengers of 
death. Great gaps were torn in the Confeder- 
ate ranks. The work being done by the Union 
soldiers was of the most desperate nature. The 
Southerners were dauntless; they answered 
this awful roar of musketry and slaughter of 
their comrades with a wild yell and rushed for 
the Union works, sweeping out the Federal 
lines in that resistless charge, gained the Fed- 
eral entrenchments and won a most signal vic- 
tory after a hard fight against immense odds. 
Citizens of Marlin, doff your hats, do homag.' 
to Hood's Texas Brigade today. 

Could Not Down Hood — Lost .an Arm .\nd 
A Leg, but He Still Fought Ox. 

(Special to the News.) 

Marlin, Te.x., June 26. — "Thou bearcst tiio 
highest name for valiant acts." 
* * * 

General Hood was certainly a most remark- 
able character. Perhaps no braver man or 
more stubborn fighter ever appeared on the bat- 
tlefield. It is said of him that he was never 
known to yield territory without making a des- 
perate figiit to retain it. After being disabled 
in one arm at Gettysburg, he was not long in 
getting back to service. His was an illustrious 
part in the battle of Chickamauga, and it was 
there he lost a leg close up to the hip joint : but 
he was again in the field when the campaign 
of 186-1 opened. One writer says of General 
Hood : "An army consisting of men filled with 
his heroic spirit could never have been defeated 
except by annihilation." 

When Mr. Davis became disappointed at the 
"Fabian policy" of General Joseph E. Johnston, 
and believing that General Jolinston could not 
hold Atlanta any better than other strong posi- 
tions he had abandoned, he immediately de- 
cided that General Hood was the man for John- 
ston's place, and appointed him in Johnston's 
stead. Soon after General Hood's appointment 
some of the movements planned by him were 
not properly executed by minor officers and 
brought on the severest battles of the Georgia 
campaign (July 20 and 22). The Southern 
troops were not as successful as Hood expected, 
and the loss on the Southern side was heavy. 
General Hood has perhaps been censured for 
making a blunder, but the best authorities as- 
sert that his plans were skillfully laid, and. if 
properly carried out, the result of these two bat- 
tles would have been far different, and the 
South would have gained signal victories both 
those days. During the remainder of the war 
General Hood demonstrated wonderful skill in 



maneuvering his army, and all his operations 
were conducted in a masterly manner. 

The following sketch of the life of General 
Hood has been furnished the News correspond- 
ent by Secretar}- Branard of Hood's Brigade: 

Of the many names around which cluster 
thrilling memories, none stand sublimer in the 
military histon,- of the Confederate war than 
that of John Bell Hood. Born in Bath County, 
Kentucky, on the 29th of June, 1831, at a pe- 
riod when brave men were pushing the civiliza- 
tion of older parts of the L'nion into a frontier 
State, he soon acquired those sturdy, self-re- 
liant traits that so distinguished him as a sol- 
dier in that fierce conflict for States' rights. 

General Hood was brought up at Mount 
Sterling, in Montgomerj- County, Kentucky, 
the home of his father, who was a physician of 
marked ability. Many professional in iuo 
ments were brought to bear upon the son to put 
liim in the profession of his father. While tlie 
example of his father and the promise of be- 
ing educated in the highest medical universities 
of America, and a finish given by a course in 
Europe, were well calculated to sway him in 
his choice of a business avocation, he evin. ed 
no inclination to follow the healing professon. 

Every incident connected with the "'dark and 
bloody ground"' of his adopted State was sug- 
gestive of war, and to make himself master of 
all the aids which go to make up the character 
of a soldier became the all-absorbing thought of 
his soul. H so happened at this crisis in t!ie 
life of young Hood that his uncle, Judge 
French, was Representative in Congress from 
ihe Boonesboro district of Kentucky, and 
through him John B. H(X)d received an ap- 
pointment to West Point, into which he entered 
as a cadet in 1849, being then 17 years of age. 
In 1853 he graduated in a class with Sheridan, 
McPherson and Schofield. 

Brevetted as Second Lieutenant of tbe 
Fourth Infantr%-, then serving in California, 
Hood took voyage from Xew York via Panama 
and reached San Francisco, where at Bcnecia 
Barracks, he was stationed for a short time. 
In a few months he was ordered to report at 
Fort Jones, Scott's Valley, in the northern part 
of California, where, upon his arrival, lie found 
Colonel Buchanan in command with U. S. 
Grant as his Quartermaster. Finding but lit- 
tle active service in this remote garrison Lion- 
tenant Hood found both exercise and amuse- 
ment in killing game in which the country 
abounded. The vent for letting out the un- 
tamed energies of the young soldier were found 
in agricultural pursuits in his hours of rest 
from the routine of camp duty. A prairie open- 
ing was plowed by Hood and some of his com- 



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rades, wheat soweJ and a promising harvest 
almost in sight when he was again detached 
and ordered to report to Lieutenant Williams 
of the United States Topographical Engineers 
to assist in the survey of the Salt Lake country. 

The next step in the changing life of young 
Hood was an appointment in the Second United 
States Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Albert 
Sidney Johnston, with R. E. Lee as Lieutenant 
Colonel and George Thomas and W. H. Hardee 
as Majors. 

What a thrill of memories these names pro- 
duce as we recall the parts each was to play in 
the coming drama of war, carnage and blood, 
and how strangely separated into hostile pha- 
lanxes these quondam friends were to drift. 
Again Hood was relieved and ordered to Jeffer- 
son Barracks, Mo., where he first met W. T. 
Sherman — the man who was afterwards to be- 
come infamous in the South by his vandalism 
in Georgia. In November Hood left Jefferson 
Barracks and marched with his regiment to 
Fort Belknap, Texas, which was to be in com- 
mand of Robert E. Lee. 

Here began that warm friend-hip which 
never waned as long as life lasted. There is 
much in the life of Lieutenant Hood, such as 
his experience in reaching Fort Jla.'-'on over the 
Staked Plains without water and often w'ithout 
food ; his fights with Tonkaways, who treach- 
erously tried to deceive him with a flag of 
truce; his life at Camp Colorado ;md h's com- 
mand at Camp Wood of the Nueces and finally 
his appointment as chief of cavalry at West 
Point ; but we hasten to the close of his career 
as a LTnited States soldier. 

As the clouds of war between tie sections 
were already beginning to rise and the fl.Tsh- 
lights of the coming struggle were showing 
their forked tongues along the horizon. Hood 
asked to be relieved and so place himself as to 
act with freedom and do whatever an enlight- 
ened judgment and his sense of duty should 
dictate. Returning immediately to Texas he 
repaired to his old command at Tnd';'nola and 
bidding his comrades an affer-tionate farewell 
proceeded to Jlontgomery, Ala., where he of- 
fered his sword and his services to the cause 
for which he was willing to perish. His first 
services in the Confederate army were at York- 
town and then about Fortress Monroe. 

His general activity and fitness to command 
brought him at this time a commission at Lieii- 
tenant Colonel with an order to rnise and or- 
ganize a regiment of Texans, several companies 
of which had already reached Richmond. The 
history of this regiment, known as the Fourth 
Texas, is too intimately interwoven with the 
brilliant achievements of the Confederate sol- 



dier to need farther amplification. There is 
needed no defense of Hood's campaign as com- 
mander of the armies of the West. Defeat, 
want of war and overwhelming odds against 
the Western army and constant retreat had dis- 
organized the Confederate army and made it 
powerless to meet the overwhelming hordes of 
Federals pitted against it. Nothing is more 
pathetic than the history of the period in the 
Army of Tennessee. All that could have been 
done to avert the calamities that befell this 
army was done by Hood, but no strategy could 
be practiced by the most skillful soldier, no 
maneuvers effected, no combinations made <o 
thwart the purposes of a relentless foe — over- 
whelming in numbers, measureless in resources 
and inflated with continuous successes. 

When General Hood laid down his sword at 
the conclusion of the war he must have felt he 
had discharged his duty to the South — had 
done his best for the land he loved and was the 
hero of an immortal fame, that neither disaster 
nor defeat could take from him. After the war 
General Hood married iliss Henncn of New 
Orleans, daughter of a distinguished jurist, and 
began to build for himself a home where peace 
instead of war should sit upon his altar. How 
the purposes of man are often thwarted by the 
decree of the Deify ! Death came and blasted 
all the beautiful ambitions of mother and 
father, and to the Hood's Brigade was left the 
melancholy pleasure of assisting in providing 
for and educating the orphan children of the 
distinguished soldier, the spotless gentleman, 
the courageous citizen. Thus ended the life of a 
noble patriot, a loving father and a generous 
husband. As death can not quench the ardor of 
admiration we turn with mournful pleasure to 
the spot where he lies and bid the hero sleep 
in the conscious love of a grateful nation. 

Where Hood's Brigade Shone— Some Im- 
portant Engagements in Which 
They Participated. 

(Special to the News.) 

Marlin, Tex., June 26.— To Hood's Brigade, 
as much as to any others, is due the credit of 
the brilliant Southern victory at the second bat- 
tle of Manassas, where twenty-eight cannon, 
ten battle flags, 5,000 muskets, 500.000 car- 
tridges and 1,300 prisoners were the rich spoils 
captured bv the victorious Southerners. In 
this battle "some writer has said that "Hood's 
Texas Brigade unbridled itself." No greater 
battle was ever fought on the American conti- 
nent. The confidence of their ability in the 
battlefield that was given the Southern troops 



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at tliis great battle never forsook them evun 
down to the closing scene at Appomattox. 
Union offensive was broken up in Virginia for 
the balance of the year 1S61 by the first bat- 
tle of Manassas. During this great battle it 
was Bee that rode up to Jackson and exclaimed : 
"General, they are beating us back.'" Jackson's 
replv was cool and deliberate: '"Sir, we will 
give them the bayonet." 

When Bee rode back to his men he 
shouted: "Look, there stands Jackson like a 
stone wall! Let us determine to die here and 
we will conquer." What could be a more dar- 
ing or a grander charge than when the South- 
ern troops swept the enemy from the plateau 
and down the slope, and securing full possession 
of the Henry and Eobinson houses, with the 
Union batteries, the thing in this impetuous 
charge that caused a sad pang to pierce the 
Southern heart was that two gallant spirits, Bee 
and Bartow, lost their lives upon the nltar of 
their country. 

At Sharpsburg Hood's Brigade again distin- 
guished itself. This was a hard fought battle 
and the Confederates repulsed the Federals at 
every point. 

Hood's Brigade breasted the withering, piti- 
less storm of shot and shell at Gettysburg dur- 
ing some of the hard fought battles, but was 
not near enough to lend aid just at the critical 
moment, when the gallant Virginians under 
Pickett rushed forward and broke through the 
Federal lines, and with shouts of victory plant- 
ed their banners on the captiired guns, but who 
were compelled to retire as the Federals with 
overwhelming numbers, rushed upon the Pick- 
ett men from every side. This battle caused 
Union General Hunt to form a high regard for 
the Southern soldier, and he wrote : "Right gal- 
lantly did they act their part, and their failure 
carried no discredit with it. Their military 
honor was not diminished by their defeat, nor 
their spirit lowered." 

Hood's Brigade figured with telling effect in 
the battle of Chickamaiiga, where the Southern 
troops rushed into a gap that was left in the 
Federal line of battle and completely swept 
from the field Sheridan's entire division and 
several brigades of other Federal divisions, cap- 
turing batteries, wagon trains and provisions. 
The Confederates won a splendid victory. 

After the fight at Chickamauga, Hood's old 
brigade moved to Chattanooga, with Bragg's 
army in Longstreet's Corps, and took part first 
in an important night engagement in Raccoon 
Mountain, then moved back to Lookout Moun- 
tain and rested a few davs. The old brigade 



was then sent with Longstreet to drive Burn- 
side out of East Tennessee. 

Longstreet's forces defeated Burnside at two 
or three points and drove him into Knoxville, 
which place he proceeded to invest. Burnside 
was held close at Knoxville until Bragg's army 
lost Missionary Ridge and uncovered the rear, 
when Longstreet's Corps was forced to evacuate 
and return to Virginia and there engaged in the 
fierce struggle up to the Wilderness, May C. 
where the Union army was splendidly equipped 
and well supplied with evervihing needed in 
modern warfare. The supplies of the Confed- 
erates consisted of an immense supply of cour- 
age and heroism and little else; barefooted, 
half-starved, but privations and hardships had 
never caused them to desert their colors. Long- 
street's Corps (with Hood's old brigade) 
reached the Wilderness at a most critical mo- 
ment, things were begiiming to look bad for the 
Confederates. Desperate was the close-quar- 
tered fighting in these tangled thickets. Just 
at this juncture Longstreet's splendid corps was 
observed in double column and with ranks well 
closed coming down the orange plank road in 
a fast trot. Urged by Longstreet, the division 
made a desperate charge and captured the Fed- 
eral works. Gregg's Brigade (Hood's old brig- 
ade) of Texas and Arkansas, also figured might- 
ily in this great battle. General Law writes a-s 
follows : "As the Texans in the front line swept 
past the batteries where General Lee was stand- 
ing, they gave a rousing cheer for 'ilars' Rol)- 
ert, who spurred his horse forward and fol- 
lowed them on. When the men became aware 
that he was going in with them they called loud- 
ly to him to go back. 'We won't go on unless 
you go back,' was the general cry. One of the 
men dropped to the rear and taking the bridle 
turned the General's horse around, while Gen- 
eral Gregg came up and urged him to do as the 
men wished. At that moment a member of the 
staff (Colonel Venable) directed his attention 
to General Longstreet, whom he had been look- 
ing for. With evident disappointment General 
Lee turned off and joined General Longstreet." 
When night closed the battle of the Wilderness, 
General Webb of the Union army says of the re- 
sult: "Grant had been thoroughly defeated in 
his attempt to walk past General Lee on the 
way to Richmond. Ewell had most effectually 
stopped the forward movement of the right wing 
of Meade's army, and Hill and Longstreet de- 
feated our left under Hancock." In this bat- 
tle Dmgstreet with his men was mistaken for 
enemies by some of the Southerners and fired 
on. Longstreet was badly woimded and General 
Jenkins, commander of a South Carolina brig- 



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ade, was killed. The old brigade of Hood con- 
tinued to do great service in the series of bat- 
tles in the Virginia campaign that followed till 
the close of the war. 

Brave Men — The Times Brought Them 

Out — Many Showed Total Absence 

OF Anything Like Fear. 

"I was glad to see that little sketch of Georgo 
Branard in the News tliis morning," said a sur- 
vivor of the Fifth Texas Kegiment. "George 
belonged to the First, but all the Texans in Vir- 
ginia were like one family, and of course I saw 
a great deal of him, and I will say that not a 
word in the English language is too strong to 
use in describing his coolness and bravery. We 
had lots of the same kind in our brigade. Georgo 
occupied a prominent and dangerous position 
as color sergeant and was lucky in not being 
killed or entirely disabled, so that he had a long 
and brilliant career. I see he has our old flag, 
the battle flag of the Fifth Texas, at Maran. 
The flag was sent to us in 1802 by Mrs. M. J. 
Young of Houston and in 1864 was returned to 
her by the Fifth Texas. She prized it above all 
things and it has been sacredly guarded. Just 
contrast George Branard's luck with the luck 
our color sergeants had. I don't know how many 
men were killed or disabled carrying our flag, 
but I can count fourteen who were killed un- 
der it. In one battle alone, the Wildeme-s, we 
lost seven color bearers in less tlian an hour. 
The only man living now who ever held th;it 
flag in battle is J. C. Cox of Tyler, and he is 
shot all to pieces. 

"George Branard was in just as much dan- 
ger a hundred times probably as any of our flag 
bearers, and yet his luck pulled him through. 
He is a gallant little fellow and every survivor 
of the brigade knows that. 

"Of course, every one of us has some par- 
ticular man picked out as the bravest man we 
ever saw. My ideal of a soldier was Colonel 
Harvey Sellers. There was the bravest man I 
ever saw or expect ever to see. I have seen him 
on a score of battletields and T never saw him 
the least rattled or excited. He loved danger 
and would lead a charge with the same coolness 
and sang froid that a dude leads the german or 
cotillon. I'll never forget him at Manassas. He 
rode up to the Fifth Texas on a white horse that 
had so many wounds it looked red. He came 
to our right and called out : 'I want Company 
A to deploy as skirmishers and draw the fire of 
the enemy.' Then coming closer he said : 'Boys, 
this is a dangerous service and I hate to call on 
you, but you are my old company and I want 
you to have this honor. Come on, I am going 



with you.' And he did, too. He rode that 
bloodstained white horse right ahead of us, the 
most conspicuous mark on the field, and came 
through safely. Of course, we followed. Who 
could hold back with such an example? 

But before I forget it, I want to say that just 
as brave and gallant a soldier as Colonel Har- 
vey Sellers, George Branard or any of the hun- 
dreds of others who were with us in Virginia, is 
now in Marlin at the reunion of Hood's Brigade 
in the person of Virge Patrick of Galveston, a 
member of the Fifth Texas. Virge is mighty 
quiet and no one ever hears him say a word 
about what he has gone through or done, but I 
am here to tell you a braver or better soldier 
never carried a musket than that same Virge 
Patrick. I have seen him in some mighty tight 
places and I never saw him flicker. He was a 
stayer and nothing on earth could rattle him. 
Like Colonel Harvey Sellers, he seemed to act- 
ually enjoy danger, and I have seen him in the 
most terrible charge with that same pleasant 
smile on his face that he has today when he ap- 
proaches a friend on the street. When we 
cleaned up the Zouaves at Manassas and went 
up the hill after the Yankee batteries, Virge 
was not far from, me, and I remember distinct- 
ly, for it made a lasting impression on me, the 
bored expression on his face. Bored expression 
describes it better than anything else. It wa< 
the acme of cool courage — the total absence of 
anything like fear. 

"Talk about Ney, we had hundreds of them 
with us in Virginia — men who did every duty 
cheerfully, willingly and bravely, and I am 
here to tell you that Ney or no other soldier 
who ever lived had a better record for cool cour- 
age than Virge Patrick." 

The Standard of Travis — Men of Hood's 

Brigade For Four Years Never 

Let It Be Lowered. 

(Special to the News.) 

Marlin, Tex., June 26. — The following is a 
paper written by Dr. S. 0. Young of Galve-tDU 
and read at this morning's session of the brig- 
ade: 

To Hood's Texas Brigade Eeunion: It is 
needless for me to say that Hood's Brigade did 
much to add to the renown of the Confederate 
soldier, and that it was a most potent factor in 
making those four years of glorious history. 
You of the Armv of Northern Virginia faced 
and held at bay the best armies the world has 
ever jiroduced, won for your-selves the love and 
admiration of your friends, and the admiration 
and respect of your foes. It was your proud 
and lofty privilege to represent in that army the 



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Lone Star State, the only one which had al- 
ready a glorious record. Travis wrote the first 
pages at the Alamo and set the standard so high 
that it has never been surpassed, though to your 
credit and honor be it said, for four long, weary 
and bloody years you never allowed it to be low- 
ered. Tlie world recognizes and bows to tlie 
prowess of the Texas soldiers, who have never 
been found wanting, although subjected to the 
most crucial test. The history of the Hood's 
Brigade reads more like a romance than a rec- 
ord of facts. I know of no other body of men 
who were drawn so closely together as were its 
members, nor do I know of any where there was 
less jealousy between its component parts. The 
glory of one was the glory of all. Forty-one 
years ago today, when Hood, using the Fourth 
Texas as a wedge at Gaines' Farm, broke Mc- 
Clellan's line, the first page of that four years 
of imperishable glory was written. The Fourth 
Texas did it, but Hood's Brigade got the lionor 
and glory. The Fifth Texas added the second 
page at Manassas, while the third was written 
at Sharpsburg l)y the First Texas, when that reg- 
iment held an army at bay at such frightful 
cost to themselves that their percentage of loss 
has never been surpassed in the history of the 
world's wars. Thus on three occasions, each of 
the Texas regiments in the Army of Northern 
Virginia distinguished itself, but all the glory 
went to Hood's Brigade, and I doubt if there 
are a hundred people outside of the survivors of 
the brigade who know of these individual regi- 
mental acliievements. This is all wrong, and 
should be rectified before it is too late. There 
is glory enough for all, and a division should 
be declared. 

But it is not of Hood's Brigade as a wliole 
that I desire to speak. It is an easy thing to 
give credit to the Fourth Texas for its work at 
Gaines' Farm; to the Fifth Texas for its gallan- 
try at Manassas, and to the First for fearful 
self-sacrifice at Sharpsburg. All future his- 
torians will doubtless do that; but what of the 
heroic deeds of the individuals, the component 
parts of those regiments? Should not they re- 
ceive their just dues, too? I know you will agree 
with me that this should be done, and I hope 
you will agree with me, also, when I say that 
you are the men to do it. 

From Cold Harbor to A])pomaitox there was 
not a minute when you knew what Lee, Long- 
street, Hill, Hood or the other commanders were 
doing, or intended to do ; but there was not an 
hour, a day, or a year, during that time that 
you did not know what ynur messm;ite and reg- 
imental officers were doing. You can not write 
a history of General Lee, but you can write a 
history, and a good one, too, of the poor fel- 



lows who .stood guard with you in the sleet and 
snow; of the men who, on a hundred battle- 
fields, closed up the gaps in your ranks made by 
the enemy's shell and grapeshot, and who, after 
so many months and years of sacrifice, eith( r 
paid out their life's blood on the soil of Vir- 
ginia or Pennsylvania, or returned to their 
homes physical wrecks. This is work each sur- 
vivor can do, and in my opinion it is a duty 
which has been neglected too long and further 
delay may prove fatal. S. 0. Youn'c. 

Little Girl's Address. Miss Sauls, Aged 
13, Spoke to the Veterans Yesterday. 

Marlin, Tex., June 26. — The following is an 
address delivered by Miss Lessie Furman S uils, 
aged 13 years, at the Court House this morn- 
ing: 

My Fathers of the Confederacy — I hail you 
happy today, as you come together in your an- 
nual reunion. It is so hard for me to realize 
as I now behold your halting steps, your stoop- 
ing forms, your wrinkled brows, your silvered 
lock.s, that just a few years ago you were lithe 
and strong; your eyes were full of the fire of 
hope, and in your vigorous young manhood yon 
buckled on your armor and with all the knightly 
bearing of a true Southerner, you went forth to 
meet the invaders of your homes. 

As I read of your gallant deeds, your liarl 
marches, the privations you suffered, the mighty 
conflicts which you survived, my very soul is 
thrilled with pride in the thouglit that I am the 
grandchild of two old Confederate soldiei-s — 
two men who wore the gray and follnwed t!ie 
fortunes of the Confederacy. 

In my imagination I sometimes fancy that 
I lived forty years ago; that 1, too, was a Cmi- 
federate soldier, riding with Forrest, or Wheel- 
er, Stuart or Hamjiton, nr that I was of the 
hosts of the gallant TjCC, Jai-ksnn or Hood, 
sweeping like a tornado through the valley of 
Virginia, across the rolling waters of the Shen- 
andoah, Or with majestic tread cleaving the 
Potomac's sweeping current. 

In my imagination I can see you as a mighty 
host of strong young manbiiod, the purest strain 
of Southern chivalry, boh'ly riding forth in de- 
fense of home and honor. .\h, yes, and methinks 
I can see you as you form in line on the plains 
of Manassas in 'Gl, and under the eye of Johns- 
ton, Beauregard and the sainted Jackson, y>)U 
fall upon the invaders of our Southland, and 
hurl them back crouching and trembling uii ler 
the .spires of their capital city. I can bear the 
beat of your drums, the notes of the fife, the 
rebel yeil, as MeClellan beats his retreat from 
before Richmond; the exultant shouts of Le 



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and his Lieutenants at the second Manassas, 
the hand-to-hand conflict of tlie Wilderness, 
the siege of Petersburg, the erstwhile "Grand 
Army of the South'' living in the ditches in 
front of Our beleaguered capital. 

I look again and I see you in the last act of 
the great drama as you move with the prou;! 
march of the world's greatest heroes lo the final 
close at Appomattox — the remainder of the 
world's grandest troops surrounded by a vast 
army of ten to one. And yet, grandly and de- 
fiantly dictating your own terms of capitula- 
tion. 

My fathers, the world will never look upun 
your like again. Soon you will cross over the 
river to rest under the shade of the trees with 
the sainted Jackson, the immortal Lee and the 
gallant hosts of your comrades, who have gone 
on before. Now, honored fathers of tlie gray, 
we, your children and children's children, to the 
latest generation, will ever hold in memory's 
most sacred casket your honored deeds and dar- 
ing. 

LINES ON MANASSAS FIELD. 

The following lines, suggested upon a visit 
to the battlefield of Manassas, Va., by Mis-s 
Kate Daffan, were read this morning: 

We knew the ground was holy. 

For it was a battlefield, 
Where Southern soldiers fought and died — 

Their stout hearts would not yield. 

At the gates of this field we entered in 
Angels seemed to be standing there, 

Wiho guarded the spot where our loved ones 
fought, 
And my grateful heart breathed a prayer. 

We sat 'neath the shade of the great old trees, 
And remembered our blessed dead. 

Who went from that field to their home wiih 
God, 
And by Him their courses were led. 

The old Henry house is standing there 

In the shade of the apple trees. 
And nothing is clianged since our soldiers 
fought, 

WTiile their banners waved in the breeze. 

It was here General Lee said of Jackson's men, 
"They stand like a great 'Stone-wall.' " 

Their brave true hearts had no fear of death — 
They heard only their leader's call. 

And then I thought of the soldier boy. 
Who went into the battle that day. 

Who fought his last fight and breathed his la-t 
hope, 
Whose heart slept 'neath his jacket of grny. 



Then I remembered the dear, dear soldiers. 
Whose brave lives are spared to us yet — 

Let us fill their last years with tenderest love 
And never, never, forget ! 

— Kate Daffan. 
Ennis, Texas. 

Fifth Texas Flag— It Was Made by Mrs. 
Young, and Afterwards Re- 
turned To Her. 

(Special to the News.) 

Marlin, Tex., June 26. — The following ac- 
count of the flag of the Fifth Texas is fui- 
nished the News correspondent by Major Geo. 
A. Branard of Houston. The account is an 
extract from a letter that Major Branard re- 
ceived from Dr. S. 0. Young, Secretary Gnlvcs- 
ton Cotton Exchange : 

"My mother made the flag — I think in 'H'i — 
and sent it to the Fifth Texas by Bob Campbeil 
of Company A, Fifth Texas, one of the recruits 
who went back with Lieutenant Clute. The fl;ig 
was used until '04, when Lieutenant Clay, Cap- 
tain Farmer and some other otticers, whos.? 
names I forget, came back to Texas after re- 
cruits. The Fifth Texas held a meeting, wrot:' 
a magnificent letter and appointed these officer.^ 
a committee to return the flag to my mother, it 
being so badly torn and tattered as to be of no 
use. During its use by the regiment, fourteen 
men were shot down and killed ; two, I remem- 
ber well, were badly wounded, one of whom 
was George Onderdonk of Company A, who was 
afterwards killed in a runaway accident in 
Houston after the war; the other is his dear 
old side-partner of J. C. Cox, whom you will 
see in Bryan, and who will show you the bnll 
from a wound he received at Jlanassas, I be- 
lieve, and carried for over thirty-five years." 

Letter From Mr. W. E. Copeland. 

(Special to the News.) 

Marlin, Tex., June 26. — Confederate .soldiers 
are not only possessed of the characteristic of 
daring and bravery, but also of many other 
praiseworthy and noble attributes, and it is not: 
uncommon that they are men of much modesty, 
as the following fully evidences : 

Rockdale, Tex., June 24.— Mr. E. P. Hutch- 
ings, Marlin, Tex. — Dear Sir: Replying to your 
favor of June 22, asking for a sketch of my 
life for publication in the News in connection 
with the annual reunion of Hood's Brigade, 
would say if you have any regard for an old 
crippled Johnnie Heh, you will withhold his 
name from the public prints. Mode-ty is be- 
coming in all men, but especially in th9':e who 
undertook to do a thing and fniled. 



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Philosophy says, "It is better to have strug- 
gled to reach the apex and failed than not to 
have made the effort." This kind of philosophy 
may be all right to the theorist, but tho^e who 
have had the experience of almost reaching the 
pinnacle and then falling ignominiously to the 
foot of the hill and very much lower than from 
whence they started, are justified in saying, 
"Damn such philosophy." 

I have never attended any of the great Con- 
federate reunions, and only a few times have I 
attended the annual reunion of Hood's Brigaue, 
and then for the sole purpose of meeting my 
old comrades and taking them by the hand. It 
is very doubtful whether I can be at Marlin on 
the 26th and 27th, but in any event I would 
court the least possible publicity. 

Biographically, Jacob's reply to Pharaoh 
(Gen. xivii, 9) accurately portrays my past: 
"Few and evil have the days of the years of 
my life been, and have not attained unto the 
days of the Aears of the life of my fathers in 
the days of their pilgrimage." With kindest 
regards, I am, yours truly, 

w. e. copelaxd. 

Lee's Tribute to Hood's Brigade. 
{Special to the News.) 

Marlin, Tex., June 26. — The following is a 
copy of a letter that appears in a book of biog- 
raphies of Confederate generals, published in 
1872. The letter shows the high regard in which 
the Texas Confederate soldier was held by Gen- 
eral Robert E. Lee, especially those comprising 
Hood's Brigade: 

"General Louis T. Wigfall, Headquarters 
Army of Virginia, Xear Martinsburg, Sept. 21, 
1862. — General : I have not heard from you 
with regard to the new Texas regiments, which 
you promised to endeavor to raise for the army. 
I need them much. I rely upon those we have 
in all tight places and fear I have to call upon 
them too often. They have fought grandly and 
nobly, and we must have more of tb.em. Please 
make every possible exertion to get thi m in and 
send them unto me. You must he'p us in this 
matter. With a few more such regiments as 
Hood now has, as an example of daring and 
bravery, I could feel much more confident of 
the campaign. Yerv respectfully, 

"R. E. Lee, General." 

Biography of President J. C. Loggins. 

Marlin, Tex., June 26.— Dr. J. C. Log-jins, 
President of Hood's Texas Brigade, was born 
December 7, 184-5, at Anderson, in Grimes 
County. He enlisted in Companv G, Fourih 
Texas, in the summer of 1861, and went direct 
to Virginia. The company was known as the 



Grimes County Grays. He served during the 
entire war. He was captured at Gettysburg, 
July 2, 1863, and was in prison one year, es- 
caping from Fort Delaware July 1, 1864, by 
swimming Delaware Bay. He fought in near- 
ly all battles : Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fort 
Gregg, and was wounded in the latter en- 
gagement. The only portion of the war he 
missed was during the one year he was in prison. 



HOOD'S BRIGADE SURGEON. 

Dr. J. C. Jones Went in a Youth, and Never Missed a 

Fight, Nor Was Absent a Day or Night 

from the Command. 

{Special to the Neivs.) 

Marlin, Tex., June 26. — Dr. J. C. Jones was 
born in Lawrence County, Alabama, and re- 
ceived his academic education at La Grange 
College; began his medical education at the 
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1856, 
where he graduated ; also attended the medical 
schools of Dublin, London and Paris, returning 
home at the opening of the Civil War, when he 
was appointed as assistant surgeon of Hood's 
Brigade in Virginia, August, 1S61. In conse- 
quence of his youthful appearance, some misgiv- 
ings were felt lest he miglit not be equal to the 
stem emergencies of war, but after the com- 
mand received its baptism of fire at Gaines' Mill 
all doubts on that score disappeared. He served 
continually with the command, never having 
missed a march, skirmish or battle, and sur- 
rendered at Appomattox as senior or brigade 
surgeon. He was the trusted surgeon of General 
Hood, and was chosen to take care of him when 
desperately wounded at Chicamauira. He has 
been appointed surgeon general Texas Division 
of Confederate Veterans by Generals Sayers, 
Merriweather and Policy in recognition of his 
war record in the Army of Xorthern Virginia. 
He has resided and practiced his profession con- 
tinuously at Gonzales since 186.5, and is now 
one of the State Board of ifedical Examiners. 



REUNION AT MARLIN CLOSED WITH 

A BARBECUE AND SPEECHES BY 

VETERANS AND PROMINENT 

VISITORS. 

Marlin, Tex., June 27. — The Saturday morn- 
ing session of Hood's Association was opened at 
9 o'clock with prayer by Judge John W. Stev- 
ens of Hillsboro. The memorial committee sub- 
mitted the following resolution : 
To Joseph C. Loggins, President Hood's Tex.'s 
Brigade Reunion Association. 

Whereas, Since our last reunion the follow- 
ing comrades have departed this life: John 



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Patigon, Company B, Fifth Texas ; Jack Smith, 
Company A, Fifth Texas ; G. B. Huggins, Com- 
pany D, Fourth Texas; David Arnett, Company 
G, Fourth Texas; D. A. Beal, Company G, 
Fifth Texas; and. 

These comrades died as they had lived, loyal 
to their comrades, loyal to the cause they es- 
poused in '61-65, and true to the principles and 
their tattered colors, for which they fought and 
bled; 

We feel that these comrades departed with 
eyes secure and fearless as upon the bloody 
battlefields of Virginia, and that they entered 
upon the shoreless sea of eternity with their 
feet planted upon the "Eock of Eternal Ages." 
Be it, therefore, 

Besolved, by the Hood's Brigade Eeunion As- 
sociation, That in the loss of these our beloved 
comrades, with humble hearts we bow our heads 
to the will of our heavenly Father. Their priva- 
tion and patient endurance in the bloody drami 
of war, their upright, honorable lives in civic 
life has left to their comrades a splendid legacy 
which becomes to us a glorified memory. 

Resolved, further, That these resolutions be 
spread upon the minutes of this meeting. 

Resolved, in conclusion, That Comrade Cope- 
land lead in prayer at the adoption of these res- 
olutions. 

W. E. Barry. Chairman; 
JoHX W. Stevens, 
John X. Henderson, 
S. P. Burroughs, 

Committee. 

These resolutions were unanimously adopt- 
ed, after which the adopted song of the Con- 
federacy, "Nearer My God to Thee,"' was sunir. 
The following resolution was offered by John X. 
Henderson and J. T. Hunter and was adopted 
by the Association : 

Be it resolved. That we hereby tender the 
thanks of this Association for the generous hos- 
pitality accorded us by the citizens of JIarlin, 
and, further, that we tender to the local an.l 
daily State press and to the railroads our ac- 
knowledgments for courtesies extended on th:;' 
occasion of this our annual reunion. 

The date of the annual reunion was changed 
from June 26 and 37 to June 29 and 30 on mo- 
tion of Hon. John N. Henderson. 

The following officers were elected for the en- 
suing year: Dt. S. P. Burroughs of Buffalo, 
President; W. H. Lessing of Waco. Vice-Pres- 
ident; Dr. J. C. Jones of Gonzales, Surgeon; 
W. E. Copeland of Eockdale, Chaplain. The 
office of Treasurer was made perpetual and 
united with the Secretary. 

President Burroughs was escorted to the chair 



by Capts. J. T. Hunter and W. E. Barry. He 
made an eloquent address of acceptance and 
thanked his comrades for the high honor con- 
ferred on him. Vice-President Lessing was 
escorted to his seat by Judge Stevens and E. G. 
Session. Mr. Lessing thanked the Association 
with appropriate remarks. 

Ennis, placed in nomination by Miss Kate 
Daffan, was unanimously selected as the place 
of next meeting. 

Barbecue and Speaking. 

The la.?t half of the last day of the reunion 
of Hood's Texas Brigade was spent at the bar- 
becue grounds in the beautiful park on the es- 
tate of Colonel Baker, about one mile west of 
Marlin. By far the largest crowd assembled in 
Marlin for many years enjoyed the dinner, 
which was declared by the veterans to be the 
best any city has ever tendered them at a re- 
union. 

Eloquent patriotic speeches were made by 
Confederate veterans and others. The addrefs 
of Judge John N. Stevens of Hillsboro was 
particularly interesting. The crowd wouldn't 
let the venerable Judge stop speaking until he 
declared that the honors that had been heaped 
upon him by his comrades and the citizens of 
Marlin had worn him out, and he could speak 
no longer. 

Congressman E. L. Henry also delivered an 
interesting speech and received unbounded ap- 
plause. Hon. C. F. Greenwood of Hillsboro 
also addressed the gathering in appropriate re- 
marks. Mr. Greenwood reviewed in brief the 
history of the war with the States and eulogized 
Hood's Texas Brigade in particular. Mr. Green- 
wood is an orator of marked ability and his ad- 
dress was instructive as well as interesting. He 
was frequently interrupted by the enthusiasm 
he aroused in his hearers. 

The veterans have been royally entertained 
by the citizens of Marlin and they declare that 
the people of the Hot Water City are not lack- 
ing in general old Southern hospitality, and all 
desire to ^•isit this city again before they '"pass 
over the river and rest in the shadow of trees." 

U. D. C. Entertainment. 

Marlin, Tex., June 27.— Last night the Falls 
County Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, 
gave an entertainment to the veterans and vis- 
itors to the reunion at the Bartlett Park pavil- 
ion. There were many Southern patriotic songs 
and recitations rendered, which was attended 
and enjoyed by far the largest crowd ever as- 
sembled at Bartlett Park. The recitation by 
Miss Lessie Saul was particularly enjoyed and 



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she has won the love and admiration trf all that 
liave heard her. 

Mrs. B. J. Linthicum preseuted a silk Con- 
federate flag to the Willis L. Lang t'anip, Con- 
federate Veterans. Hon. Tom Coimally, on be- 
half of the camp, thanked Mis. Liiithieum in 
appropriate remarks. The affair at the pavilion 
ended with a selection on the piano by Miss 
Katie Daffan. 

After the entertainment a grand ball was 
given at the Arlington in honor of the reunion. 

A Prominent Visitor. 

One of the prominent visitors to the reunion 
is Dr. D. C. Jones of Cameron. Prior to the 
war Dr. Jones was acting assistant surgeon in 
the United States Army. He resigned and en- 
listed in Captain W. P. Townsend's company, 
Fourth Texas, in 1861. He served for nine 
months as a private, until the battle of Gaines' 
Mill, Va. He was then made surgeon of his 
company, and served as such the balance of the 
war. 

Flag Presentation — Willis L. Lang Camp 

Is Remebered by the Veterans. 

{Special to the Neivs.) 

Marlin, Tex., June 27. — In presenting the 
flag to Willis L. Lang Camp, Mrs. B. J. Lin- 
thicum spoke as follows : 

"In presenting this flag to you, brave war- 
riors and loyal sons, I do it in remembrance of 
the noble soldier and esteemed man, Willis L. 
Lang, whose life is held dear by you, and whose 
memory is kept gi-een by this valiant band. 
Long may this flag wave, emblematic of your 
patriotism, love of freedom and strengtli of 
union, and long may you live to preserve your 
interest in so noble institutions." 

The old Fifth Texas flag, tattered and torn 
with the honorable scars received on hard- 
fought battlefields, where it was so nobly borne, 
was unfurled and held out to the view of the 
old soldiers by ('apt. D. II. Boyles of Marlin. 
The old flag was greeted with wild and enthus- 
iastic cheers by the veterans. 

It was a late hour when the band played a 
good-night piece and the large assemblage com- 
menced to disperse. 

Hood's Brigade Ends — Judge Kittrell, of 
Houston, Orator On Last Day. 

(Special to the Galveston News.) 

When one hundred and twenty gray-haired 
veterans of Hood's Texas Brigade assembled 
upon the occasion of the reunion now 
in progress in this town, all records for attend- 
ance in a similar event were surpassed. Semi- 



political as was the meeting, that fact, with the 
consequent amount of advertising derived, 
served to bring from homes over the State a 
large proportion of the survivors among those 
who served in the great organization. 

Approximately 5,000 men went forth from 
Texas with Hood and the allied regiments that 
afterward were Joined under his command and 
eventually became a part of his brigade. Now 
there are few of them left. The ranks were sad- 
ly depleted by the ravages of war. The passing 
of years has marked the time of death for many 
heroes. Once before as many as a hundred of 
these veterans were assembled at Ennis, and 
that was several years ago. It was believed then 
tlian no such number could ever be brought to- 
gether again. 

Considerable difficulty was experienced in 
finding quarters for all who appeared. The ho- 
tels were filled and beds were in demand. Many 
slept in the same room and it was like an in- 
door bivouac. 

The hospitality of these war-worn veterans 
of the Civil War was lavish. To them the 
freedom of the town was given and the enter- 
tainment was sumptuous. 

Arrangements were as near perfect as the ac- 
commodations permitted. 

At the park all was arranged for their com- 
fort. Vehicles were at their disposal. The res- 
taurants were open and no cash register jingled 
where they were. 

No serious accident marked the occasion and 
no hitch in the program as outlined was made. 
'J'he parade was a credit to the town and the 
decorations were elaborate. 

The barbecue was one of the greatest ever 
given in the State, and every one was served. 
Tables were spread beneath the spreading 
branches of the trees and groaned beneath the 
burden of the weight of food. 

The crowd was large. As many as 4,000 
people gathered upon the field and it was as if 
the veterans were the guests of all. Chairs 
were given up to them ; they were served before 
any others. Every other man and woman on 
the ground was there, as it seemed for no other 
reason than to give service to those who had 
fought so gallantly in their support of the lost 
cause. 

In the afternoon of the first day the red 
reunion opened and today the address to the 
veterans was delivered by Judge Norman G. 
Kittrell of Houston. 

The organization was effected Thursday af- 
ternoon when President Goree of the association 
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organization and Major F. C. Hume of Hous- 
ton responded. His speech was one of the 
events of the reunion. It was short and punct- 
uated with eloquence. 

GovERXOR Culberson Becomes a Poet ik 
Sentiment — Hood's Texas Brigade. 

Our illustrious Charles Culberson has paid 
this tribute to the men we honor today : Hood's 
Texai Brigade was to Lee's army what the 
Tenth Legion was to Caesar and the Old Guard 
to Napoleon. We know this to be a well de- 
served eulogy for was there ever another such 
band of fighters. 

And— 

Today as we gaze on their faces, 
And the ranks which are fast growing thin; 
We hark back to days when in gallant array. 
They fought to die or to win. 

Stalwart, vigorous and handsome, 
In long columns they marched away; 
In the chill of the mid-night hour. 
In the dusty heat of the day. 

WTien the cannon belched forth its terrible fire. 
And grape-shot rained thicker than hail; 
With saber and gun and the old rebel yell. 
They made the enemy quail. 

Where army met army and the fighting waged 

hot. 
And the plains ran rivers of blood; 
Eight up in the front, in the thick of the fight. 
Were the men who followed brave Hood. 

There was Winkler, our own dauntless colonel, 
There was Harding to depend on as aide; 
There were Mills. Henderson and Stoddard, 
All fighters in Hood's Texas Brigade. 

For to fight was always Hood's motto. 
And his men were the same kind of stuff ; 
And tho' they didn't win out always, 
They still made things pretty rough. 

There was Pinckney, our dear martyred hero. 

Who fell by an assassin's hand ; 

Let us bow our heads in sorrow, 

That this hero has left the brave band. 

But we never could name all the heroes. 
From private to officer brave, 
And no words are needed to tell you. 
The dead fill a true soldier's grave. 

For wherever great deeds are recorded 
And related as tales often told ; 
Of men who were fighters in battle, 
Thev will tell of Hood, reckless and bold. 



They will t«ll that in all of the legions. 
There were none like Hood's Texas Brigade; 
They will tell you no men in the army. 
Another such record has made. 

But the mantle of peace, with its shrouding 

folds. 
Has fallen about the grim past. 
And the mellowing years are drying the tears 
Which for our dead soldiers fell fast. 

Yet methinks if in heaven these comrades 

should meet. 
And brave, reckless Hood should be there ; 
If a blue coated angel the>''d happen to see, 
There'd be a big fight then and there. 

— Mamie Downard Peck. 
June 27, 1905. 

********** 
AdjoJTnment was then taken for dinner. 

Fourth Texas Flag. 

Following are some features in connection 
with the Fourth Texas flag over which the 
spirited discussion was raised this morning. 

The Fourth Texas Flag was brought in this 
morning by Comrade L. A. Daffan and placed 
on the rostrum. It was sent by Val. C. Giles 
with the request that it be delivered to head- 
quarters of Hood's Texas Brigade Eeunion. 

The flag has ninety-six bullet holes in it and 
the metal spear which capped the flag staff, 
which also accompanied the flag, was also 
pireced by a bullet. To the flag is attached the 
following very suggestive and thrilling lines : 

In The Days When Wae Was Hell 

This faded relic here today, 
So torn by shot and shell. 

Waved proudly o'er Virginia's hills 
In the days when war was heU. 

Xo foeman's hand e'er touched the flag, 
And oft the rebel yell 

Has rang beneath these thirteen stars. 
In the days when war was hell. 

'Tis old and faded now by time, 
And torn by shot and shell ; 

'Twas never furled on any field. 
In the days when war was hell. 

This grand old flag, so silent now, 
A story sad can tell. 

Of those who died beneath its folds 
In the days when war was hell. 

—V. C. G., Co. B, Fourth Texas. 



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HOODS TEXAS BRIGADE 



Hood's Telis Beigade ai Gaixes"' AfiTT.~. 
June 2:.. 1862. 

There's Jackson, from the waller, with dnst 

brown ranks has come. 
Where Pi^en. Hill and Anderam rosh on. the 

woods jet dumb: 
Bnx Fitz John Porte-'s stem Fifth Corps has 

sworn to bold Ae lines: 
Behind the ridge of Gaines-' Mfll the Yankee 

bayonet shincs. 
Before ibe set of snn that day, 'tw^ Boat- 
swain's Creek ran red. 
And stars and stripes and stars and bars ^xax 

o'er the dcathksE dead. 
And Fame's star rose nptm Ute Seld. amid that 

battle's roar, 
Whidi pinned in ^orr s SrmameDt fte badge of 

the Fifth Corps.' 
For Sykes. Mordl and grim MeCall tiidr blue 

divisions shoved. 
And faced their double mnnbeis, Fitz Jcbn 

Porter blocked our road. 
The man who rashly fancied that a Yankee 

wouldn't fight 
Was sharply tanght contietion ere fell flie 

shades of ni^t. 
For Stonewafl's moi no firmw- were than foes 

wlio wonld not yield: 
And four l«ig hoars the tempest brote on 

danntless Batterfidd. 
In Tain Gregg's Candinians faced Sykes-' r^ 

nlar? — hero kd. 
Old ^ irolina^s legions nikd with bold 

E ■?ir head. 

Figh t standard bearers 'neath tiie alken stars 

and bars woit down. 
Four diarges withered in the fires, that hell's 

nproar would drown. 
Pi^ett and Cobb weze beaten ba^ from oS fbe 

bkodyhiD, 
Whoe, now at bay, the Hfth Corps bkd in 

silaiee. Suiting stiD. 



The "thnndering : 

died away. 
For Weed and T 

deathly ? 
Without a ci- 

kees stood. 
In the last reding ba 

called for Hood. 



r-r <a K.- 



^1 our lines witii 



victor Yan- 



■itr, 'twas Whiting 



iliJ, the 



From ont the swamps of Gaire 

Hampton le^aa came. 
With law^c Brigade and our own Hood, his 

eager eyes uSaan^ 
And Texas gaTe the Fast and Fifth, who boie 

flie sii^lp star. 
Tie Eighteenth Georgia and oar Foonh — "the 

Texas boys were thar,'' 
When Jadson urged and lin^tieet called. 

Hood led bnngplf Ins mco. 
Arms at die train, the Texam dadied into the 

deviPs den. 
With wol^i strides, thdr fiag bedde, and cold 

steel in thdr han^ 
They bnrst the circling waDs of fiie. There 

Hood a Tietor stan^! 

Go*! What a foe! "nie Fifth Corps yielded. 

indi by indi, with fire. 
A tliOBsand fell, while Hood swept on. We had 

onr heart's desire. 
Pickett and WUcox, mdiing on in line widi 

Texas' s«he. 
Poured, drunk with blood, aeroeB the ridge, 

where lay the fourteen guns. 
Xo ckea* grap^e — breast to breKt — the war's 

dark record ^wws. 
Today the ridge at Gabies' Mill is starred with 

prairie rose. 
Bnt. Fame's tianal watch is fcqic whoe <»ce 

the Fifth Corps stood. 
And T pTiis lore within her eres. still proudly 

whispers, "HoodP 

— Bichard Henry SaTage. 



.\ GLANCE B.\CKWARDS-"LE5T WE FORGET. 



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to 



tuC ii^^iw 



Til -^ .>:t. J. 

J^clitiiroi t'J S»l 



should not be indulged 

ronembered that terrl 

had not yet reached tl 

the war dosed, ahhoB^ 

whole four years as a sddi^. After 

had a motha and six biodiero, besii 



-?t out 



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tofore respectable negroes put aside their old 
wives and took new ones. All were declared 
never legally married, and were required to 
get a license, pay a fee to the carpet-bagger, and 
"get married right." "Forty acres and a mule" 
caused many a negro to pay for a deed to land 
— that never could be delivered. Elections were 
held their own way, and there was a negro sena- 
tor, representative, sheriff, both county and dis- 
trict clerks, county commissioners and justices 
of the peace, and all other positions filled by 
negroes, some imported — and, with few 
exceptions, where any white man held 
office it was a miserable scalawag, a 
home product, that was ready to out-Judas 
Judas. Amid this hell we had to live for 3'ears 
— and why should we not still despise the name 
of Grant and E. J. Davis. Through first of re- 
coistruction they were getting educated up to 
their dirty work, which later Grant could have 
quickly ended — but he did not do so in Texas 
until the people of the state had not only spok- 
en in thunder tones at the ballot-box, but had 
congregated in numbers, with guns in their 
hands, to demand that Davis and his minions 
should go. Even then E. J. Davis and his ne- 
groes fortified themselves in the State Capital 
and refusing to yield to the duly elected officers 
of the state, appealed to President Grant for 
assistance to further override the people and 
the law. It was only upon Grant's refusal to 
further assist that Texas was freed from that 
"league with Hell and covenant with the Devil" 
as the Eepublican State Constitution was called. 

During the height of reconstruction the good 
people of Limestone county had terrible experi- 
ences that they will never forget, and Brazos 
and other counties had their best men shot 
down by the mongrel "State Police" of Ed- 
mund J. Davis, and there are a few living yet 
that will never admit that we of the South 
should ever forget the days of reconstruction or 
their infamous abettors. 

The writer made many speeches at various 
times during that period and he is proud to re- 
member that even then he never failed to speak 
•plainly and to denounce in no mea.iured tones 
the miserable home scalawag — who from every 
view was far meaner and more to be blamed 
than any carpet-bagger or most depraved negro. 

No one must think that the Federals who 
fought against us were mixed up in any of 
this. There was not a decent Xorthern man who 
would have been found among the ranks of such 
as had been sent to oppress the South. They 
were all non-combatants in time of war, for- 
eigners, negroes, and our own unprincipled, 
God-forsaken product — the scalawag. 

Quite soon after sweet peace had been re- 



stored and Governor Coke's administration 
fully launched, the writer received the follow- 
ing note : — 

"We, the undersigned citizens of vicinity of 
Cleveland, Fort Bend county, Texas, hereby in- 
vite Capt. F. B. Chilton to address his old 
friends at an 'old-time barbecue,' to be given 
on grounds at Cleveland, July 4, 1878. In com- 
mon with all we are proud that our distinguish- 
ed fellow-citizen was selected from this Sena- 
torial District to assist in making a new plat- 
form of principles for the Democratic party of 
Texas, to offset the nefarious Eepublican mis- 
rule we have just gotten rid of. 

"J. A. Gibson, Chairman." 

In conference with committee of invitation 
the writer was told "it would be best to try and 
bury the past and not allude to by-gones, as 
many sensitive people and their families would 
be present, that all were trying to do better — 
and some of the same old set were still run- 
ning for office, and all interests would be best 
served by not hurting anybody's feelings — too 
hard — as we are not strong enough in the coun- 
ty yet to do as we please, and we have to make 
objectionable compromises in order to get our 
men in any of the offices." 

The writer told committee he had not chang- 
ed a bit — that he would be as honest and out- 
spoken as ever, that they knew it — and under 
their restrictions he would have to decline. 
Finally they waived their demands, and he ac- 
cepted, made the speech to a grand old Fort 
Bend crowd and was glad he was left living to 
be with such a type of citizenship as that dis- 
tinguished county has ever been able to boast 
of. To show how the writer felt then and to 
prove how he must still feel, following extract 
is made from closing remarks of speech made on 
that day, over thirty years ago. Occasion was 
just preceding the fall election, wherein 0. M. 
Roberts was elected Governor to succeed R. B. 
Hubbard, who as Lieutenant-Governor had be- 
come Gtovernor when Governor Coke became 
United States Senator. 

EXTRACTS AS FOLLOWS : 

"We have other officers to elect in Novem- 
ber besides state officers, and it might be as 
well that we retrospect the past a little, and re- 
vive in our minds some of those events that 
though covered by time yet will live with us 
while life lasts. 

"From this pleasant day, from this pleasant 
place, where we have met free and unrestrained 
to enjoy ourselves, where the sun shines as 
bright as though it had never been dimmed by 
a cloud, where the little birds sing so sweetly 
as though they would burst their throats in 
warbling their praise to an unknown God, and 



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fantasy of the brain, taking siiape in horrid 
nightmare, no cunningly wrought fiction to 
awaken pity or excite imagination, nor is it the 
result of a morbid propensity to retail stories 
of the terrible and the forbidden — but it is only 
a faint shadowing forth of the real true suf- 
ferings we endured after the close of the war. 
Would to God it were a dream, that in the wak- 
ing we might forget it. Had the United States, 
secure in its mighty strength, and tlie utter 
prostration and exhaustion of the South, passed 
a general amnesty and held the conquered 
states under military rule only until the state 
governments could be organized, the sea of 
blood and the ridges of graves which divided 
the people of the two sections would have filled 
up and leveled long, long ago. 

"All of us realized to its fullest extent that 
the Southern Confederacy was dead, and all its 
mourning lovers asked was to remember their 
dead reverently. We did not seek to conceal our 
grief at the loss we had sustained, but wept 
such tears as only strong men can weep. W'J 
did not attempt to galvanize the corpse 
that we might bring about spasmodic 
action and cry, 'There is life in the eld land 
yet.' Nor did we reverence our old flag as a 
standard around which to gather and fight des- 
perately on. No, far from any of this — we were 
conquered and we were free to acknowledge it. 
But )'et to us our sorrow was the winding sheet 
of our dead glory, over whose grave we had 
raised a monument of noble deeds, which will 
defy malice, oppression and time. We loved our 
old threadbare grey clothes, with their brass 
buttons in mourning, and our old battle flag, 
as the widow loves the memory and honorable 
distinction won by her dead husband in th'-' 
battles of life. Had we been permitted to do 
so we would quietly and silently have turned 
from the gi-ave of our dead hopes and buried 
joys, with tearful eyes and sad hearts, to take 
up the heavy cross which God had laid upon us 



ly, trusting that He in His 



and borne it manfull, , ^ __ 

own appointed time would bring good out of 
our present evil, saying with true and heartfelt 
earnestness — 

" 'God bless us all, we pray ; 
With aching hearts we've hid 
Under the coffin's lid 
Our dearest hopes away.' 

"Yes, woeful indeed were those days, and 
bitter should be our remembrance of the au- 
thors of our suffering and misery. Not only 
were our enemies abroad and distant, but shame 
to sa\% in our midst here at liome we had those 
who for place and position, coupled with filthy 
lucre, foreswore their allegiance to God and 
home, friends and family, and sold their 
birthrights for a mess of miserable pot- 
tage. Long, long, should we remember 
them for their infamy. Today they should 
crouch and cower beneath public indig- 
nation like the doomed at the blast of the 
trumpet of the Judgment Day. For their judg- 
ment day has come. The thunders are all in our 
hands now, if we will i)ut throw them. And we 
should throw thunder and not doubtful echoes. 
The very men who sowed the seeds of hatred be- 
tween the triumphant Xorth and the conquered 
South are here in our midst. Here are the men 
who drew the pall of desolation over us. Let 
them be pointed at, let them be hissed at. Create 
a public opinion that shall exclaim wherever 
they appear on the .streets — 'There goes an as- 
sassin of his country's liberty.'" 



There was not only a tremendous home crowd 
at barbecue, but a rousing attendance from sur- 
rounding counties and from cities of Galveston 
and Houston. Galveston News had a correspond- 
ent on the platform and that paper thus de- 
scribes the barbecue: — 



THE FOURTH AT CLEVELAND. 



That Well Known Hospitable Neighborhood Covered Itself With Added Glory. 
Capt. F. B. Chilton Orator of the Day. 



The barbecue which was given by the citi- 
zens of Cleveland and vicinity on the 4th was 
a complete success. There was an extraordi- 
nary attendance from a distance of thirty miles 
around. Peace and plenty reigned supreme, an 
added feature to the occasion being free lemon- 



ade and ice-water by the barrel-full. The orator 
of the day, Capt. Frank Chilton, entertained 
the audience for two hours with his eloquence. 
It was a speech that will never be forgotten and 
which will some day find its way in history of 
reconstruction days. 



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(Special Correspondence of the Galveston 
News.) 

Eichmond, July 5. — The barbecue nt Cleve- 
land was one of the most enjoyable affairs it 
was ever my good fortune to attend. It was held 
on a beautiful high wooded hill, at the edge of 
the bottom and prairie. The grounds were taste- 
fully laid off; the speaker's stand was arranged 
under an immense tent with an abundance of 
seats to accommodate at least one thousand 
people, while the dancing platform was larg'j 
and capable of accommodating three double 
sets. The table was tremendous. 

The opening remarks by Capt. F. B. Chilton 
were forcible and appropriate. Next in order 
came the opening song by the Cleveland choir, 
accompanied by soul-stin-ing music from their 
new organ, manipulated by Mrs. A. M. Silli- 
man, which was followed by an eloquent prayer 
from Kev. G. D. Parker, after which Captain 
Chilton introduced Judge J. C. Williams, who 
ably entertained the audience for the space of 
an hour. Dr. Downnian followed with a short 
but eloquent address. Captain Chilton being 
loudly called for by the immense audience, took 
the stand and gracefully saluting his fellow 
citizens, entertained them with a series of very 
satisfactory and conclusive reasons why they 
should fast less and eat more and brace them- 
selves for the coming programme, and closed by 
inviting them to a table one hundred and fifty 
feet long, loaded down with such a profusion 
of all the substantials and dainties that flesh is 
weak to. The tables spoke volumes for thu 
taste and management of the ladies, of whom 
Mrs. T. M. Blakely was the chief. 

There were over six hvmdi-ed people bounti- 
fully fed and satisfied. 

After dinner was finished the audience once 
more assembled under the canopy and vocifer- 
ously cheered and called for Captain Chilton, 
who, in response, took the stand, and entertain- 
ed the audience with an eloquent and impres- 
sive political address on topics of interest to 
the people. He went over his record, and, as 
he is a candidate for the legislature, he could 
not possibly have got up a better campaign doc- 
ument. His speech was received with cheers and 
applause. 

At about 4 p. m. the dancing began and the 
cry was on with the music — let joy be uncon- 
fined. From then until supper was announced, 
where the abundance of all kinds of good cheer 
was undiminished, with hardly a hole visible 
from the terrific onslaught of the COO hungry 
souls at dinner, with a little rest, the dancing 
once more commenced and continued until 
early dawn. 

The whole affair throughout spoke in strong- 



est terms of the efficient and able management 
of the ever-courteous superintendent, Capt. F. 
B. Chilton, who, with the assistance of his able 
committees, seemed never to tire of seeking to 
enhance and promote the enjoyment of all pres- 
ent. A splendid string band was in attendance 
and discoursed sweet music with indefatigable 
zeal. Second to nothing was the free concert of 
Messrs. Toddy and Eckmond, of Richmond. 
The boys covered themselves all over with well- 
merited plaudits. 

The grounds were supplied with an abund- 
ance of cooling beverages, supplied by two ice 
cream and lemonade stands, and comfort was 
further assisted by a complete confectionery es- 
tablishment. 

In closing our report of the grand Demo- 
cratic barbecue at Cleveland, we can not omit 
to pay a just praise to the citizens of Cleveland 
and vicinity. Xo more whole-souled and public- 
spirited people exist on the face of the globe, 
and all present will long remember the day with 
unbounded satisfaction. Your reporter is spe- 
cially indebted for many courtesies, and shall 
anxiously look forward to the next -Ith of July, 
when Cleveland promises to outrival her present 
success. 

We heard many kind expressions in reference 
to the News. 



THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. 



A Big Time at Cleveland— Richmond Was 
All There. 

(Four Counlies.) 

On the 4th inst. our nation's natal day was 
celebrated by a grand barbecue given by the 
people of Cleveland to the coimtry at large. The 
day broke fair, and promised pleasure to the 
expectant pleasure-seekers. At an early hour 
the Four Counties man reached the grounds and 
found everything prepared ; a large tent pitch- 
ed, a dancing platform free from any obstacle 
of embarrassment, a grand dining table over an 
hundred feet long, a croquet ground nicely 
cleared, and the barbecue pit that made one's 
mouth water. We were received by Capt. F. 
B. Chilton with his never-failing hospitable 
manner, wishing us a pleasant time and afford- 
ing us "lots of attention." The Captain was tho 
happy manager of the affair and executed his 
trust in a fine manner. The comjjany increased 
rapidly and at 11 o'clock the ground-^ were 
flooded with "fair women and brave men" from 
all sections of our county. At 11 :30 a. m., the 
Cleveland Sunday School, under the superin- 
tendency of Capt. F. B. Chilton, opened the 



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duties of the day by singing "Pull for the Shore, 
Sailor," and acquitted themselves in style that 
would do credit to any Sunday School. Captain 
Chilton then opened the speaking with a modest 
address and was followed by G. D. Parker, who 
addressed the assembly and then led in prayer. 
The Hon. J. C. Williams was introduced and 
delivered a great 4th of July puff. Passing 
from the day of our nation's birth down to the 
present time, and that too in so admirable a 
manner as to receive applause and compliments 
from all sides. Judge Williams was followed by 
Dr. Downman who also expatiated on the an- 
niversary of the day. Again the Sunday School 
organ was brought into requisition and the 
"Sweet By and By" was then sung to the gen- 
eral satisfaction. The party then dispersed, 
some here and others there, for most part could 
be seen paired off and discussing matters near- 
est their hearts. Ice cream, lemonade and fruits 
were liberally distributed. At 3 o'clock p. m. 
dinner was announced. At the head of the table 
we found three of the respected veterans of the 
army of Texas, Cols. Tom Smith, C. Fulshear 
and Ean. Foster. Bro. Parker then invoked the 
blessing of Providence on the repast and then 
all was again merriment. The table was boun- 
tifully supplied with all the luxuries the coun- 
try could afford and the boards fairly groaned 
under the load, nor could the most fastidious 
taste have found cause to grumble, so well were 
they all cared for. 

Mesdames Blakely, Hunter and others un- 
known to us, assisted by a number of young la- 
dies and Messrs. Chilton, Gibbs, Stuart Bros., 
Gibson and others attended bravely and satis- 
factorily to the wants of all. The excursion from 
Houston was crowded. After dinner it was an- 
nounced Capt. P. B. Chilton would discuss some 
political issues. (Our space is too limited this 
week to give his speech in full but will next 
week.) Captain Mitchell was then called, who 
spoke at some length. 

At 4 o'clock the dancing commenced and 
from then until broad daylight the party en- 
joyed themselves with this pleasure. At 11 
o'clock p. m. supper was had and about 5 a. m. 
all breakfasted. 

The barbecue was certainly a success, no dis- 
agreement occurred to mar the general pleas- 
ure, and the lack of ardent spirits rather pleased 
the majority. During the night music was dis- 
coursed by the young ladies present and tho 
"Sweet By and By" so often sung that men 
were found here and there whistling it in their 
dreams. To Captain Chilton is due the thanks 
of all present for his kindness and attention 
and we heartily extend ours and are requested to 
do so for many of our friends. He certainly dis- 
played a vast amount of energy and go-ahead- 



itiveness on this occasion, and we glory with 
him that it was a success. To all of the many 
others who cared for us we return thanks. 
********** 

At the last meeting of the Agricultural and 
Horticultural Society a unanimous vote of 
thanks to Capt. F. B. Chilton passed the house, 
for his indefatigable persevei'ence and the im- 
partial manner in which he presided over the 
stock department at the fair. 

********** 

Capt. F. B. Chilton, of Cleveland, is one of 
the most go-ahead and affable gentlemen in the 
county. — Editor. 

******:::*** 

In all Texas no county excels Fort Bend in 
citizenship, in all that pertains to excellence in 
fertility of soil, proximity to markets, or any- 
thing else of genuine merit. When war closed 
her situation was most pitiable. Overwhelmed 
with a negro majority of 10 to 1, close to Fed- 
eral headquarters at both Galveston and Hous- 
ton, overrun by negro soldiers, carpet-baggers 
and abounding with scalawags — it did seem she 
must disappear forever — but she did not. Her 
position was so desperate that the remedy had to 
be doubly so — and it was. The few white people 
stood manfully together, they maintained or- 
ganization — and never gave up an inch to the 
last. Eventually they not only redeemed the 
county, but cast an influence that spread over 
Matagorda, Brazoria and Wharton — and the 
white man's party, "the white man's Union" 
and "tax-payers' Union" forever became domi- 
nant and controlled the future destiny of tho 
white man in all Southern Texas. 

In 1878 there was published a fearless paper 
at Richmond known as "The Four Counties." 
Extract from its editorial ))age of August 15, 
1878, will show that the county had not yet be- 
come thoroughly purified, but that tho Demo- 
cratic and white man's leaven was working to 
a certain finish : — 

********** 

THE FOUR COUNTIES. 
Published every Thursday. 

BY J. E. KIXCH. 

Official Organ of Fort Bend, Matagorda, Whar- 
ton and Brazoria Counties. 

DEMOCRATIC EXECnTIVE COMMITTEE. 

Precinct No. 1 — Dr. G. A. Feris, A. Kerr. 
Pecinct No. 2— Sam N. Hodges, J. B. M. Gill. 
Pecinct No. 3— A. J. Adams, J. B. Hill. 
Precinct No. 4— W. D. Fields, E, E. Ransom. 
Precinct No. 5 — J. A. Gibson, Mr. Edminson. 
Precinct No. 6 — R. P. Briscoe, R. L. Harris. 
P. E. Peareson, Chairman. 



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DEMOCllATIC STATK TH KKT. 

For Governor — Hon. 0. M. Koberts, of Smith 
County. 

For Lieutenant-Governor — Hon. Joseph D. 
Sayers, of Bastrop county. 

For Attorney General — Hon. Geo. McCormick, 
of Colorado county. 

For Comptroller — Stephen A. Darden, of Cald- 
well county. 

For Treasurer — F. A. Lubbock, of Galveston 
county. 

For Land Commissioner — Wm. C. Walsh, of 
Travis county. 

OUR TICKET. 

For Representative — F. B. Chilton. 

At the instance of our own views, strengthen- 
ed by the magnificent endorsement of our whole 
people, we hoist to our mast-head the name of 
Capt. F. B. Chilton, of Cleveland, as our choice 
for Representative from this county, in the 
Nineteenth legislature. 

********** 

Capt. F. B. Chilton's name was hoisted for 
the Legislature at the instance of many friends. 
He authorizes us to say that he is in no wise a 
candidate. 

We received the following letter from our 
esteemed fellow citizen, Capt. F. B. Chilton, 
dated Austin, July 22nd, and regret exceeding- 
ly that he has seen proper to withdraw his name 
as candidate for the House of Representatives, 
as he is eminently fitted for the position : 

Austin, July 22, 1878. 

Editor Four Counties: In your next issue 
please thank all my friends for their preference 
as exhibited towards me for the legislature. 
Please withdraw my name; I am not now, nor 
do I in future, expect to be a candidate for the 
position. * * * * 

I have forwarded to Richmond GO breech- 
loaders and acoutrements, together with 10,()n() 
rounds of cartridges, for the Cleveland Rifles. 
Very hot here. Yours, etc., 

F. B. C HILTON. 

********** 

FORT BEND COUNTY FAIR— REPORT 
OF COMMITTEE ON STOCK. 

Captain F. B. Chilton, Superintendenl. 
Judges: B. C. Stuart, Joel McCrary, J. W. 
Jones, Tom M. Blakely, J. E. Winston. 

We are informed that a military company 
has been organized at Cleveland, 60 strong rank 
and file; company to be called Cleveland Rifles. 
On the 22nd the election of officers was as fol- 
lows : 



t:aptain, F. B. Cliiltoii. 
First Lieutenant, Wm. M. Briscoe. 
Second Lieutenant. B. F. Stuart. 
Immediate steps will be taken to build an 
armory 30xG0 feet. 

Editorial Department, Tuesday, 
Aug. is, 1878. 

The approaching election for county o'l'cer-; 
is creating considerable stir among candidates, 
Republican party backs and professional elec- 
tioneers ; prominent among the latter two classes 
we notice some who having failed in every 
other vocation undertaken by them, now claim 
to be ministers of the gospel, and hope by sand- 
wiching religion with politics to realize an easy 
living, or at least one without manual labor. 
It is a remarkable fact that these pretended 
teachers of religion are the most violent agita- 
tors where the colored race has the majority as 
in this county. There are quite a number of 
candidates offering for the offices of county 
clerk, assessor, and cattle and hide inspector, 
some of them educated and capable white men. 
and except for county clerk, some uneducated 
and utterly incapable negro men. We under- 
stand that at a meeting of the Republican Ex- 
ecutive Committee this week, held for the pur- 
pose of determining upon the date for holding 
a nominating or county convention, a caucus 
was held at which it was fully determined, in 
the selection of candidates, to strictly adhere 
to party lines except in the office of sheriff; for 
which office they will select no candidate from 
their party for the reason that no member of 
their ]iarty can make the required official 
bond. This is what they understand by re])uh- 
licanism, party rule or ruin ; a perfect disregard 
of public good, qualification or fitness of can- 
didates for office, but a blind adherance to the 
shadow of a thing witliout substance, induced 
by a deep-seated hatred of Southern white men 
indelibly impressed upon their shallow brain by 
the carpet-bagger and scalawag of ISllG, jet xeq. 
Tlwse of the white race who affiliate with them 
now, are responsible to the people for the mis- 
government of affairs resulting from the elec- 
tion of corrupt, ignorant and incapable offfciuls. 
and, bij the Gods, who control the destinies of 
an imporerished and struggling people, endowed 
with superior intelligence, against physical sii- 
perioritg, they will at no d}Mant day, be held 
to such an account, that the darkest spot in the 
jMst political history of this section will be a 
comfortable tnasl- behind which they will be 
glad to hide their diminished heads. We hope, 
however, that before the election, better counsel 
tlian is given by the unjjrincipled now among 
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chosen to the various county offices with 
view alone to honesty and capability. 



This article has been indulged in by the writer 
to clearly prove that those who can so easily 
prate about forgetfulness never had anything to 



remember. It has also been with pride that he 
pens the foregoing as to grand old Fort Bend 
county. The first of his young manhood began 
there and its people and its interests will ever 
be dear to him. Like the old people of that coun- 
ty he has yet a vivid remembrance of Recon- 
struction Days. 



HEROIC ACTS IN TEXAS HISTORY. 



(By John 0. Scott, Sherman, Texas.) 

At the battle of Tulia, Miss., there were three 
Cook brothers who acted very gallantly in bat- 
tle and were wounded with the flag of Whit- 
field's Legion in hand. The third brother, al- 
though painfully woundel in the arm, still he- 
roically held to the colors with the other hand 
until the Lone Star banner was smiling in joy- 
ful victory on the captured guns. 

'At Chickamauga, Ed Francis, color bearer of 
the Fourth Texas, about the time General Hood 
was wounded, alvanced fearlessly to the charge 
in advance of his regiment and brigade. He 
bravely planted his flag on the breastworks of 
the enemy. He was heard by his comrades to 
say, as if rejoicing in so glorious a death : 
"Here I die for mv country." He was instantly 
killed. 

John Barry fearlessly rehoisted the colors, 
but he, too, was shot down. 

William Daugherty, as brave as a Spartan 
hero, instantly raised aloft the weeping en- 
sign of the Texans, meeting the same sad fate 
as the other two. 

Sergeant JIakeeg clung to the blood-stained 
ball rent standard until the heavens echoed 
victory-, victory ! 

At Gettysburg Colonel P. A. Work, during 
the forenoon of Julv 2, as soon as he reached 
the battlefield, sent William H. Barbee and 
Charles Kingsley to reconnoiter Little Eound 
Top. They soon returned with the valuable 
information that the mountain and the space 
to the rear was then unoccupied by the Federal 
troops. General Hood was heard to say to 
Major William H. Sellers: "Go to General 
Longstreet as fast as your horse can carry you 
and ask permission to move to the right flank 
so as to be able to envelop the knoll,'" referring 
to Little Eound Top. 

General Longstreet replied that General Lee 
had already given the order of battle and it 
could not be changed. Wliereupon General 
Hood was heard to say : "Very well ; when we 
get under fire I will have a digression." Gen- 
eral Hood was severely wounded in the begin- 



ning of the charge and had no chance to go in 
rear of the enemy. 

In the charge across the open plain to the 
mountain the First Texas Kegiment was led 
by the gallant P. A. Work. 

George Branard of the First Texas bravely 
carried the regimental colors. The flag was 
a very large and heavy silken sheet. He was a 
youth of small stature and light weight. He 
bore the flag across the plain and up the moun- 
tain through a hurricane of shot and shell. 
After the crest of the summit of Little Round 
Top was reached, he planted the Lone Star ban- 
ner of the Texans on the topmost summit of the 
mountain, fluttering to the breeze like a thing 
of beauty rejoicing in the effulgence of its 
glory. We were presented with a picture of 
that mountain and the locality where the Tex- 
ans fought. We sent it to one of the reunions 
some years ago. Willis J. Watts, Elics New- 
some and David Bronaugh saw the picture and 
recognized the largo granite rock or boulder 
on which the gay tinseled folds of the star 
flowing banner of the Texans floated in joy- 
ful victory. 

At Chickamauga, September 19, Major K. 
M. Van Zandt led the Seventh Texas Regiment 
further than any other command into the 
enemy's line. That act of peerless valor is de- 
clared to world and posterity by a marble slab 
placed on the battlefield by" a joint committee 
of officers of both armies. These words of 
Colonel W. L. Moody should be inscribed im- 
perishably on the page of Texas history : "At 
Chickamauga the Seventh Texas Regiment, un- 
der the command of its gallant officer. Major 
K. M. VanZandt, went further into the 
enemy's lines on September 19 than any other 
engaged and was the first to break the enemy's 
liues — an achievement which has shed luster 
on the immortal Seventh Texas and its im- 
mortal commander." 

The names of these illustrious Texas heroes 
will shine with perennial grandeur on the star- 
lit archway of Texas' glorious history. 



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GRAND SENTIMENTS FROM A GRAND 
WOMAN. 

Katie Daffan, " Daughter of Hood's Texas Brigade." 



"gratitude is a manly virtue." 

From the time that man first inhabited the 
earth, long before the annals of human society 
began, long before a chapter of human history 
was written, because the heart of man is en- 
dowed with that most glorious of human quali- 
ties, "Gratitude," he has placed, in enduring 
form, the evidences of his appreciation of ser- 
vice rendered, of deeds well done, of his love 
for his fellowman. 

It was the worthy custom of man in his 
savage or barbaric day, in his semi-civilized 
days, in his ancient, mediaeval and morn 
time, to commemorate virtue, daring, courage, 
constancy and sacrifice. Huge stones and pil- 
lars have been left where armies have trod, 
great rocks have been blown from tlie mountain 
sides and placed, one upon the other, in solemn 
height, and left that other men, seeing, might 
know the appreciation tliat these men felt, one 
for the other; for true men have always loved 
their fellowmen and gratitude is a manly vir- 
tue. 

In the early Christian era crosses were 
placed where "the Christian soldiers perished, 
where a martyr died or upon the scene of tre- 
mendous service for God. Later chapels, cloist- 
ers, monasteries and universities were estab- 
lished to commemorate heroic service and to 
mark heroic groimd. 

l^Iany of the world's works of art, the glorious 
monuments and statutes in Europe, are our in- 
heritance from the brilliant-hued Middle Ages, 
when men fought for religion, for love, for sen- 
timent, as well as for kingdom. They believed 
in the inspiration and the superb lesson which 
comes from contact with a noble thought, a 
noble life; so they erected enduring monu- 
ments, entablatures and allegoric images that 
are today our historical index to the Middle 
Ages, the flower time of the world. 

A later day has brought just as brave and 
courageous men and as daring deeds, and we, 
in our present golden era of history, would 
honor and greatlv honor our own, our fathers, 
those to whom we owe all, and their contempo- 
raries and their fellowmen. 

The truest, noblest sentiment that has ever 
lived in man's heart is of this quality. It is the 
full appreciation and tlie ready understanding 
of a service rendered, whether civil, military or 
purely personal. 

Let us prove ourselves worthy of those we 



represent, those wJiose lifework is ended and 
whose mantle has fallen upon us. 

We can make of our state, glorious, superb 
Texas, home of heroes, her own Westminster 
Abbey, and her own Appian Way, for where 
sleej) greater warriors than ours? Soldiers up- 
on the battlefield and later soldier-citizens in 
tlie forum, the market place and in every high- 
way of progress, builders of an empire, and our 
own empire, Texas ! Our State itself is a mon- 
ument, a vast and splendid one, of wisdom, 
jjeace and liberty, and the world looks on in 
admiration and wonder. 

The work of our fathers is finished, but our 
duty is one of defense and preservation, of 
teaching and exemplifying. 

It is the way with wise men to apply them- 
selves to the purpose which is immediately 
]iresented to them, which is today brought be- 
fore them, which is pressing, appropriate, im- 
jiortant ; it is time now for us to act ! 

Through the excellent management and 
strong initiative of Hood's Brigade Monument 
Committee, Captain F. B. Chilton of Angleton, 
president; General W. E. Hamby of Austin, 
treasurer; Captain W. H. Gaston of Dallas and 
Captain W. T. Hill of IMaynard, aU gallant 
members of the brigade, the contra/. t for the 
monument to honor the immortal JJood's Texas 
Brigade has been signed by President Chilton, 
and the terms of contract provide that the mon- 
imient shall be complete in January, 1910. 

Efficient and valuable servic-e has been ren- 
dered by the committee composed of honorary 
members of the brigade, one ever loyal and 
zealous Confederate soldier, a member of Ter- 
ry's Texas Kangers, Major George W. Little- 
field, and three sons of the Confederacy, who, 
in spite of many and varied duties to their 
State and its development, have shown by their 
lives, the genuine appreciation which they feel 
for the Confederate soldiers; Governor Thomas 
M. Campbell of Austin, Hon. John H. Kirby of 
Houston, Hon. John 0. Willacy of Corpus 
Christi. 

Unlike the record of many monument com- 
mittees and associations, their work of raising 
a sufficient and a large amount, has been com- 
pleted in a few years, and the sixth and seventh 
days of May, 1910, are the days set apart when, 
in the presence of a multitude, glorious and 
radiant with s^mipathetic appreciation, from the 
splendid impulse of a common and universal 
gratitude, the obelisk, forty-five feet high, sur- 
mounted by a statue of the private soldier in 
heroic size, will be uncovered and become an ob- 
ject lesson in history that all men seeing may 
know that we, Texas men and women, descend- 



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ants of men of blood and courage, know the 
value of constancy and sacrifice. 

A beautiful and" fitting thing it is that tliere 
are those beloved ones who still survive, who 
lead in this holy work, who live to see this mon- 
ument placed in the impressive picturesque 
grounds which surround our superb granite 
State house — itself a monument to tlie energy 
and patriotism of Texas. 

Hundreds of members of Hood's Texas Bri- 
gade perished upon American battlefields, and 
those who were spared to return to their beloved 
Texas, took up the anns of peace, hard work 
and that phase of patriotism that makes a man 
ready to live as well as to die for his country, 
and they remained at their post until called 
home by the great Commander of armies to an- 
swer to the last roll call. 

And these, the soldiers in time of peace, loved 
Hood's Texas Brigade until their last waking 
moment, the last conscious thought, until they 
fell asleep 'neath the folds of the starry banner, 
loved, honored and simg. 



OUR NOBLE DEAD. 
(By John E. Hatcher.) 

We will not wander to the gloomy years 
Through whose dark scenes we have so lately 

passed. 
Where no soft beam of golden light appears. 
To gild the clouds of sorrow o'er them cast. 

Those things are but a solitude of graves, 
Where Love and Memory pour their tears like 

rain. 
And where, in voiceless grief, the cv^iress' waves. 
Above the hearts, which for us die in vain. 

The dead who died, as died that gallant throng, 
To shield a cause which in their eyes was just, 
Shall live enshrined in story and in song 
While ages roll above their scattered dust. 

What though for them no marble shaft shall 

rise? 
Time shall not see their sacred memory wane; 
Their scroll of Fame, expansive as the skies, 
Years of oblivion shall corode in vain. 

Heroic deeds are deathless, and they live 
L^nmarred while empires crumble into dust; 
Thy master fame and life, and glory give 
To storied urn, and animated dust. 

There rose no sculptured monument to tell 
Where Spartan valor broke the Persian sway. 
And yet we know there nobly fought and fell 
Heroic men in "Old Platea's dav.'' 



Peace to the ashes of our noble dead. 
For distant eyes shall behold each name, 
Brightening like morning when the night is 

fled, 
And ever broadening on the disc of fame. 

Farewell ! Ye high heroic hearts, farewell ! 
Inspired lips shall teach the world, ere long, 
Ye fought to hallow story, and ye fell 
To give a new apocalypse to song! 



THE BALTIMORE GREYS. 

Ah ! well I remember that long summer's day. 
When round about Richmond our broken ran'KS 

lay ; 
Week in and week out, w-e had been at the 

front. 
And borne without flinching, the battle's fierce 

bnmt. 
Till, shattered and weary, we needed repose 
Ere we met, in death struggle, our numberless 

foes. 
Our knapsacks were empty, our uniforms worn, 
Our feet from long marching, were naked and 

torn; 
But not a man grumbled in rank or in file. 
Our hardships we bore with a joke and a smile, 
For Stonewall was with us, and under his eye 
Each soldier determined to do or to die. 

That evening old Jack had us out on review, 
When a glance down the line showed us all 

something new; 
Eighty-seven young boys, from old Baltimore, 
Who had run the blockade, and that day joined 

our corps. 
Their clothes were resplendent, all new, spick 

and span, 
'Twas plain that a tailor had measured each 

man. 
When we learned who they were what a shout 

we did raise 
How we cheered our new allies, "The Baltimore 

Greys." 
There were Lightfoots and Carters and How- 
ards and Kanes, 
The grandsons of Carroll, the nephews of 

Gaines ; 
And as the brave boys dressed up in a row, 
You could see the pure blood of Huguenot show. 

But we were old vets of Stonewall's brigade; 
We had been fighting so long that war seemed 

a trade, 
And some of us laughed at tlie youngsters so 

gay. 
Who had come to the battle as if coming to 
play. 



314 HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 

And all through the camp you could hear the Saluted and said : "You'll here find us all, 

rough wits For wherever stationed this company stays." 

Cry, "Hello, young roosters," and "dandified How we laughed, how we cheered the bold Bal- 

cits," timore Greys. 

But the boys took it bravely and heartily But the red tide of battle around us still flowed, 

laughed " And we followed our leader as onward he rode ; 

At the hungry Confeds, by whom they were Cried "good-bye" to the boys, "take care of 

chaffed, your guns ; 

'Till one ragged soldier, more bold than the We'll relieve you as soon as the enemy runs." 

rest, Ah ! Yes, indeed, soon the boys we relieved, 

Fired off this rough joke, which we all thought But not in the manner we all had believed. 

the best : Alas ! the sisters who weep and the mothers who 

"Boys, you had better run home, its getting pine 

quite late." For the loved and the lost of the Maryland Line. 
When the girlish-faced Captain spoke up and 

said, "Wait." By some fatal blunder, our left was expo.-ed, 

And, by thousands of Federals the boys were 

Thev didn't wait long, for the very next day enclosed. 

We "were ordered right off to the thick of the They asked for no quarter — their Maryland 

frav. blood 

For earlv that morning we heard the dull roar Xever dreamed of surrender— they fell when- 

Of the guns of our foemen on Rapidan"s shore, they stood. 

And all of u? knew, with old Jack in command. We heard in the distance the firing and noise. 

If fighting was near, he'd at once take a hand ; And double-quicked back to the help of the 

And sure enough, soon marching orders we got, boys. 

And we swung down the road in "foot cavalrv The guns were soon ours; but, oh, what a sight! 

Iyq^/' Every Baltimore boy had been killed in f e 

The bovs were behind us, I fell to the rear, fight. 

To see how the youngsters on march would ap- Save the girlish-faced Captain, and he, scarce 

pear. alive. 

Their files were close up, their marching was When he saw us around him, he seemed to 

true. revive, 

I reported to Stonewall, "Yes, General, they'll And smiled when we told him the field hul 

<jo." been won. 

And the Baltimore Greys had saved every gim. 

In a few minutes more the action began. 

We met the first shock, for we were the van. Then Stonewall rode up and endeavored to 

But we stood to our ranks like oaks of the speak, 

fleld^ But utterance was choked, and down ; is 

For Stonewall's brigade never knew how to bronzed cheek 

yield ; The hot tears were flowing as he gazed on t'-.e 

Upon us, however, a battery played, dead. 

And huge gaps in our ranks were now and then "God pity their mothers and sisters," he said. 

ujade, Then, dismounting, he knelt on the blood-so 1- 

'Till Jackson commanded a charge up the hill. den sand. 

We charged. In a moment the cannons were And prayed, while holding the dying boy's hand. 

still. The gallant young hero said : "General, I knew 

Jackson said to the "Greys," "Such valor you've That the Greys to your orders would always be 

shown true. 

You'll veterans be ere your beards are full You'll not miss a Grey from our final roll-call; 

grown; Look around you, my General, you'll here find 

In this, your first action, you've proved your- us all." 

selves' bold." Blood gushed from his mouth, his head sunk 

on his breast. 

Then the girlish-faced Captain, so straight and And the girlish-faced Captain lay dead with 

60 tall, the rest. 



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PRESENTATION OF A BATTLE FLAG 

To the Austin Chapter of Confederacy. A Fine Program. 

The Address Was Written by Val C. Giles and 

Delivered by Gen. W. R. Hamby. 

(Houston Post Special.) 
Austin, Texas, September 29, 1905. — 1. Miss 
Mamie Wilson read a ])aper on the life and 
services of General John B. Hood, by that brave 
old veteran, Val C. Giles, of the Fourth Texas 
Regiment. 

2. Presentation of battle flag of the Fourth 
Texas Regiment, Confederate States Army. 
This address was also written by Val C. Giles, 
but owing to his sickness and absence it was 
read by General W. R. Hamby, who for several 
years fought under that flag as a member of the 
Fourth Texas. 

3. Reception of the flag by Mrs. Roberdeau, 
President of Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, in be- 
half of the chapter and the Texas Division of 
the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 

4. Miss Mary Lee Horton read a poem by 
Mrs. Peck of Corsicana on Hood's Brigade. 

The reading of the address of Captain Giles 
by General Hamby, presenting the old flag into 
the custody of the Daughters of the Confed- 
eracy to be deposited in their war relic room, 
brought tears to the eyes of the old veterans 
who had followed that flag through many a 
storm of shot and shell. The address was an 
able and interesting one. Let it speak for itself. 
Here it is. Respectfully, L. J. Stobet. 

PRESENTATION ADDRESS. 

Following is the presentation address written 
by Val C. Giles : 

Mrs. J. D. Roberdeau, President and Members 

of Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, U. D. C. 

Ladies: By a resolution unanimously passed 
by the surviving members of Hood's Brigade 
Association at their reunion, held at Corsicana, 
June 27, 190.5, I am requested to present to 
you on behalf of the Association the old battle 
flag of the Fourth Texas Regiment, to be de- 
posited by you, with the archives of your chap- 
ter, as the property of the Texas Division, U. 
D. C. 

This faded old relic, so tattered and torn, has 
a history — a history fraught with heroism, 
blood and victory — but it never knew defeat. 
It is an emblem of honor and purity, and we, 
the survivors of the old Texas Brigade, intrust 
it to your keeping, knowing that piratical relic 
hunters will never pluck one silken thread from 
its folds. 

Nearly forty-four years aco this old flag was 



unfurled for the first time on the historic 
banks of the Potomac, and as it flashed and 
gleamed, bright, defiant and glorious, in the 
soft sunlight of a November evening, it was 
greeted by the cheers of a thousand Texans. Be- 
fore the sun of another November kissed the 
folds of the old flag, more than five hundred of 
the gallant men who cheered it on the Potomac 
were sleeping on the red clay hills of old Vir- 
ginia or in the green valleys of Maryland. 

In the fall of 18G1 the Texas Brigade was 
camped near old Dumfries, on the Potomac, 
and commanded at that time bv General Louis 
T. Wigfall. John B. Hood was Colonel of the 
Fourth Texas Regiment and Miss Lula Wigfall 
(now Mrs. Wright of Baltimore) made and 
presented him with this flag, with the request 
that he present it to the Fourth Regiment with 
her compliments. The thirteen stars and the 
white field of this flag were made from the wed- 
ding dress of her mother, who married General 
Louis T. Wigfall in South Carolina, twenty- 
five years before the war. 

When the regiment was formed on the parade 
ground. Colonel Hood .stepped to the front and 
in a few eloquent words presented the flag to 
the regiment, and in closing his remarks said : 
"I feel no hesitancy in predicting that you will 
discharge your duty, and when the struggle 
does come that this proud banner, placed by the 
iiand of beauty in the keeping of the brave, will 
ever be found in the thickest of the fray. Te.x- 
ans, let us stand or fall together beneath this 
silken flag." 

On March 8, 1862, the Confederate troops 
evacuated their winter quarters on the Potomac 
and started on that long, eventful campaign of 
1862. At Yorktown, at Eltham's Landing, at 
Seven Pines, at Gaines' Mill, at Malvern Hill, 
at Freeman's Ford, at Second Manassas, at 
Boonesboro Gap, and at Sharpsburg this old 
flag waved proudly and victoriously over the 
old Fourth Texas Infantry. The spearhead 
you see here was pierced by a minie ball at the 
battle of Second Manassas, August .30, 1862, 
while in the hands of Ed Francis, the gallant 
color bearer of the Fourth Regiment. 

As the whole brigade ascended the hill, at a 
double-quick, Francis was several yards in ad- 
vance of his regiment, holding his flag high 
over his head and moving steadily on. Canis- 
ter, grapeshot and rifle balls were decimating 
the old brigade, but they never faltered. A 
Federal batterj' stationed on the east bank of 
Young Branch was mowing down the men, cut- 
ting great swaths through their ranks as they 
advanced. Colonel Ben Carter, commanding 
the Fourth Regiment, seeing the importance of 
capturing the battery, shouted to the men above 



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the "infernal roar": "Dress to your colors, 
charge for the guns and don't look back." 

"Don't look back !" our Colonel cried 

As on the regiment sped, 
Over the rough and broken ground, 

Over the dying and dead ; 
Over the clover, parched and brown. 

Scorched by sun and flame, 
Through the wood the regiment went, 

Onto "Manassas plain." 

The old world shook and shivered then, 

Like a giant with ague and chill, 
Although 'twas in midsummer 

When we charged that bristling hill. 
The grape and shell and minie balls 

In chorus rent the plain ; 
"Dress to your flag and don't look back !" 

Our Colonel called again. 

"Press right on and don't look back; 

The dead can bury their dead ; 
See that crater of hell on the hill — 

Charge for the guns!" he said. 
Down the slope and over the stream. 

Over the scarlet and blue. 
Through the ranks of Porter and Sikes, 

On tliat column flew. 

Beyond that stream brave Curran stood, 

A foeman true as steel ; 
He fought his guns till all was lost. 

Then died beneath his wheel. 
Ed Francis bore our flag that day. 

He bore it proud and free; 
We saw it flash like a beacon light 

On a dark and stormy sea. 

He waved his colors high in air. 

And o'er the "Rebel yell," 
We heard him shout, "I'll plant her there 

In spite of Yanks and hell!" 
He kept his word ; he reached the guns, 

Now smoking on the hills; 
The flag went on in other hands; 

That noble form was still. 

And wlien tlic sable sjiadows fell 

And hid our crimson track. 
In feverish dreams that night we heard 

That echo— "Don't look back !" 
"Don't look back at hopes that died 

On many a battlefield; 
Turn your footsteps, comrades gray, 

For' the 'Beautiful Land o' the' Leal.' " 

After the battle of Sharpsbnrg, General Loe 
withdrew his army from Maryland and bivou- 
acked in the Shenandoah Valley. The Texas 



Brigade camped near Winchester and while 
there it was agreed among the officers and men 
of the Fourth Kegiment tliat the old flag, so 
mutilated by shot and shell, should be sent to 
Texas. This old battle flag of the Fourth Texas 
Regiment and the Lone Star flag of the Fifth 
Regiment, referred to by Chaplain Davis, 
were brought back by the late Colonel Stephen 
H. Darden and deposited with the archives of 
the State. The day before the Federal troops 
reached Austin in 1865 Captain W. C. Walsh 
and Sergeant R. R. Robertson, members of 
Company B, Fourth Texas, who were at home 
at the time, secured both flags from the old 
capitol and liid them away to prevent them 
from falling into the hands of the enemy. The 
old flag was wrapped in a shroud of oil cloth 
and buried on the banks of Barton's Creek. It 
remained there until June 27. 1871, when it 
was quietly resurrected by a few survivors of 
old Company B, who met at Barton Springs to 
celebrate the anniversary of the battle of 
Gaines' Mill, where nearly 300 members of the 
old Fourth Texas fell beneath its folds 



To His Excellency, F. R. Lubbock, Governor of 
Texas. 

Headquarters Fourth Texas Infantry, Near 
Winchester, Va., October 7, 1862.— Sir: I 
have the honor to jjresent to you, by the liand 
of Captain S. H. Darden, the battle flag of the 
Fourth Texas Regiment, borne by them in the 
battles of Eltham's Landing, Seven Pines, 
Gaines' Farm, Malvern Hill, Freeman's Ford, 
Manassas Plains, Boonesboro Gap and Sharps- 
burg. From its torn and tattered condition it 
can no longer be used and it is returned to you 
that it may be preserved among the archives of 
the State as a testimonial of the gallantry of 
her sons who have fought beneath its folds. 

I need not dwell upon the services of my reg- 
iment. Its deeds in battle will go into the his- 
tory of our country and sjieak for them.-elves, 
and this silent witness bears eloquent evidence 
that the men who followed it in action were 
where shot fell thick and death was in the air. 

You will readily believe. Governor, that we 
part from our flag with painful feelings. More 
tlian 500 of our comrades in arms have fallen 
beneatli its folds. And it is to us an emblem 
of constancy under mu]ti])lied hardships, gal- 
lant and dauntless courage in the storm of bat- 
tle, and devotion unto death to our cause. 

Let it be preserved sacredly, that the rem- 
nant of our little band may in future days gaze 
upon its battle stained colors, recall to mind 
the suffering they have endured in their coun- 
try's cause, and their children incited to re- 



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newed vigilance in the preservation of those 
liberties for which we are contending. 

Our General has presented us with another 
"battle flag," and we hope to be able to acquit 
ourselves as well with that as we have done 
with the old one. EespectfuUy, your servant, 

B. F. Cabter. 
Lieutenant Colonel Commanding. 

Colonel Carter was killed at Gettysburg, July 
2, 1863, while in command of the Fourth Texas 
Regiment. 



THE FLAG OF OUB EEGIMENT. 

The old battle flag of our regiment. 

How oft with weary feet 
Have we followed its folds to victory, 

And guarded it in retreat. 
In the red hot glare of battle. 

Where carnage and death were supreme. 
We have seen the flag of our regiment 

Like a star on the horizon gleam. 

The flag of the old Fourth Texas, 

Through many a conflict shown 
O'er the red clay hills of Virginia, 



As she swept through tempest and storm. 
And when the battle was over 

There was many a saddened brow, 
When the boys would gather around it — 

In memory I see them now. 

But we'll gather no more aroimd it. 

The star of her glory has set. 
Gone down in a cloud of oppression, 

But we cherish the old flag yet. 
We have seen the flag of our regiment 

On many a gory plain 
An emblem of victory, and pity 

At half-mast o'er her slain. 

Though the old flag's furled forever, 

'Tis free from dishonor's stain; 
That noble old regiment's disbanded. 

Their hearts, thank God, are the same. 
We love that dear old banner. 

We love the cause we lost. 
And though some deem it treason, 

God bless Saint Andrew's cross. 

Yau C. Giles, 
Company B, Fourth Texas Eeglment. 



CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR. 

Hon. John H. Reagan Discusses Them from Standpoint of Personal Knowledge. 



Following is the text of a paper prepared by 
Hon. John H. Eeagan, only surviving member 
of the Confederate cabinet, which was read to 
the veterans at the Xational Confederate re- 
union: — 

Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen — The war 
between the States, 1861 to 1865 — measured by 
the size of the armies, by the number of bat- 
tles fought, by the number of soldiers killed, 
wounded and missing, and by the amoxmt an.i 
value of the property destroyed, was much the 
greatest war of modern times. It grew out of 
great causes, and was not, as has been often al- 
leged by those interested in perverting its his- 
tory, a causeless war, brought about by ambi- 
tious political leaders of the Southern States. 

In the vindication of the truth of history I 
propose to state the principal causes which led 
to that war. 

At the conclusion of the war which separated 
the American colonies from the crown of Great 
Britain, these colonies formed a Federal govern- 
ment, to which they gave exclusive jurisdiction 
over all questions of foreign policy, and over 
questions involving interstate relations, reserv- 
ing to the States exclusive jurisdiction over all 



questions relating to their local rights and du- 
ties. 

While this is clearly implied in the plan and 
constitution of the new Federal government, ir 
is distinctly asserted in the tenth amendment to 
the constitution, which was adopted soon after 
the ratification of the constitution, and reads as 
follows : — 

"The powers not delegated to the United 
States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it 
to the States, are reserved to the States re- 
spectiveh', or to the people." 

In the formation of the constitution, and 
adoption of the Federal government, two very 
important and conflicting sets of opinions ex- 
isted as to what the form and character of the 
government should be. And these conflicting 
opinions became the more serious because enter- 
tained, on each side, by men of known patriot- 
ism, and of great ability. One party to this 
conflict of opinions doubted the capacity of the 
people for self-government, and favored a strong 
government, to be modeled somewhat on the 
plan of the British constitution, omitting royal- 
ty and aristocracy, but to be made strong enough 
to control refractory States, to protect the live?. 



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persons and property of the people, and to pre- 
serve peace and ^ood order in society. The other 
party to tlic conflict of opinion claimed that the 
American people had sufficient intelligence and 
virtue to enable them to organize and to so ad- 
minister government as to successfully accom- 
plish the same purposes. And those who took 
this view succeeded in getting it engi-afted in 
the constitution, placing the necessary limita- 
tions on the powers of the Federal government, 
and preserving to the States and the people all 
the power not so delegated. 

When the Federal government was put in 
operation under the constitution those repre- 
senting the foregoing views classed themselves 
respectively as Federalists, led by Alexander 
Hamilton, and as Kepublicans (now Democrats) 
led by Thomas Jefferson. The Federalists, who 
distrusted the capacity of the people for self- 
government and favored a strong government, 
on the one side, and the Republicans, who be- 
lieved in the capacity of the people for self- 
government, and who sought to preserve the 
rights of the States and the largest liberty of 
the people on the other side, continued the con- 
test for the shaping and controlling of the char- 
acter and policy of the government, the Federal- 
ists aiming by a latitudinous construction of the 
constitution to enlarge the powers of the gov- 
ernment beyond what was prescribed by the let- 
ter of the constitution, and thereby to abridge 
the rights of the several States, and thus also 
to endanger the liberties of the people. 

The contests of opinion on this vital ques- 
tion continued to divide the people continuously 
from the foundation of the government until 
1861-18C.5, when, as a result of the war, the 
constitution was changed in important particu- 
lars, the doctrine of State rights was overthrown 
and the right of property in negro slaves was 
denied, and millions of dollars of what was then 
property was confiscated in plain and distinct 
violation of the constitution. 

This was one of the great questions which 
endangered the perpetuity of the Union. 

Another cause of danger to the Union was 
the revenue policy of the government. The 
constitution provided for a tariff for revenue, 
for the support of the government. The tariff 
policy was perverted into a policy of protection 
and fostering some industries at the expense of 
others, in plain violation of the constitution, 
by taking the property of some of the people 
from them without compensating them for it 
and giving to others who paid nothing for it, 
enriching some of the people and impoverish- 
ing others of them, by operation of unjust and 
unconstitutional legislation. This came near in- 
volving the country in a civil war about the year 



1832 and gave rise to the nullification measure 
of South Carolina. 

The acquisition of foreign territory was an- 
other cause which threatened the perpetuity of 
the Union. The acquisition of the Louisiana 
territory, the acquisition of Florida, the admis- 
sion of Missouri as a State and the annexation 
of Texas and the acquisition of the Mexican 
Territory, caused much violent discussion and 
threats by the New England States to secede 
from the Union, they assuming that these ac- 
quisitions increased the power of the agricul- 
tural States to the disadvantage of the manufac- 
turing States, and when the United States, in 
1812-1814, became involved in the second war 
with Great Britain, the same New England 
States, in their opposition to it, threatened to 
secede from the Union. 

All these conflicts of opinion were in a large 
measure sectional, as between the Northern and 
Southern States and produced in the minds of 
patriotic citizens more or less anxiety for the 
safety of the Union and the preservation of the 
peace of the country. 

To these causes of disturbance was added the 
protracted agitation of the slavery question, 
which threatened most dangerous results. The 
question as to whether the States of the Union 
should be free or slave was a question for each 
State to decide for itself, and that had been the 
uniform practice. 

I shall show that it was the purpose of the 
abolitionists of the free States, where slavery 
did not exist. States which had no jurisdiction 
or authority over the subject of African slavery 
in the States where it did exist, to secure its 
abolition through the agency of a popular ma- 
jority of the people of the United States, in 
plain violation of the constitution, which left to 
the several States the sole jurisdiction and au- 
thoritv over all their local institutions and do- 
mestic affairs, and that, too, without compensa- 
tion for them, though they were of the value of 
about three billions of dollars. 

A review of this question is necessary to a 
proper understanding of what has been done in 
this country in relation to it. 

A Northern sectional anti-slavery party was 
organized and in the year 1856 placed in nomi- 
nation for the ofifce of President John C. Fre- 
mont of California and for the office of Vice- 
President William L. Dayton of New Jersey. 
These candidates received 114 electoral votes, all 
being from the free States of the North, thougii 
they were not elected, thus demonstratiuir its 
purely sectional character. Four years later, 
1860, the anti-slavery party nominated Abraham 
Lincoln for president and Hannibal Hamlin 
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electoral votes, exclusively from the Northern 
free States and was elected, demonstrating its 
sectional character, and showing that it com- 
manded the support of a majoritv of the elec- 
toral college and of the people of the United 
States. This greatly alarmed the people of the 
Southern States. 

During and before the American Eevolution 
African slavery existed in all the American col- 
onies, and the African slave trade was carried 
on by the consent and policy of those colonies. 

Bancroft, in his history of the United States, 
volume 1, page 159, says, speaking of the colony 
of Virginia: "Slavery was not introduced by 
the corporation," meaning colony, "nor by the 
desire of the emigrants, but was introduced by 
the mercantile avarice of a foreign nation and 
was riveted by the policy of England without 
regard to the interests or the w'ishes of the col- 
ony." On the same page he says : "Slavery and 
the slave trade are older than the records of 
human society; they are found to have existed 
wherever the savage hunter began to assume the 
habits of pastoral or agricultural life," and with 
the exception of Australia, they have extended 
to ever}' portion of the globe. On page IGG he 
says: "The traffic of Europe in negro skves 
was fully established before the colonization of 
the United States, and had existed a half cen- 
tury before the discovery of America." 

Later slavery and the slave trade become of- 
fensive to the most enlightened nations of mod- 
ern times, and this view was embraced by many 
of our people. After the people of the Northern 
States had got rid of the slaves by selling tlem 
to the planters of the Southern States, the op- 
position to it in those States grew until it be- 
came a controlling element in their politics. 

In addition to what was to be expected by the 
Soutli from the two foregoing canvasses for 
President and Vice-President by the anti-slav- 
ery party, there were many other indications 
that its ultimate aim was to free the slaves of 
the South, break up the social and industrial 
conditions of that section, with the vast sacri- 
fice in property interests which would necessari- 
ly follow its consummation. 

Hon. William H. Seward, who was one of the 
prominent candidates for the presidency and 
who was the most influential member of that 
party and who became Secretary of State under 
President Lincoln, declared that the slavery 
question presented "an irrepressible conflict." 
That could only mean that the agitation must 
go on until the people of the non-slaveholding 
States could secure the abolition of slavery by 
unconstitutional means, for there was no other 
way to accomplish their purpose. Later, Abra- 
ham Lincoln, afterward President of the United 



States, declared "that this country could not 
remain half free and half slave." That could 
only mean that the agitation must go on until 
the people of the States where slavery did not 
exist could secure its abolition in States where 
it did exist. 

In the meantime war occurred on this ques- 
tion in Kansas, which called out the most angry 
feelings on both sides. And the notorious John 
Brown organized in the Northern States an arm- 
ed company with which he invaded the State 
of Virginia for the avowed purpose of inaugur- 
ating a war of races between the whites ami 
blacks, carrying with it murder and arson. He 
and some of his associates were arrested, tried, 
condemned and hanged for this great crime. 
As an indication of the temper of the Northern 
people, instead of condemning the acts of these 
fellows, in many cases they draped their church- 
es in mourning for John Brown and eulogized 
him as a saint and martyr. 

As further evidence of the aggressive determ- 
ination of the anti-slavery men to force a con- 
flict with the South on this question, I call at- 
tention to the fact that many of the Northern 
State legislatures before the war passed acts 
making it a penal crime for any of their offi- 
cers or citizens to aid in the enforcement of the 
provision of the constitution and the acts of 
Congress, which had the approval of the highest 
court, for the rendition of fugitive slaves, thus 
nullifying the constitution and laws on this 
question, the members of the legislatures vio- 
lating their oaths to support the constitution. 

When Southern members of Congress made 
appeals to the Northern members to aid them 
in sustaining the constitution and in the protec- 
tion of their rights they were answered by the 
statement : "We have the majority and you have 
to submit." I make this statement on personal 
knowledge. We were thus notified that a popu- 
lar majority of all the people of all the States 
was to be substituted for the provisions of the 
constitution which limit the powers of the Fed- 
eral government and protect the rights of the 
several States. 

It should be here stated that if African slav- 
ery was wrong it was a National wrong, inherit- 
ed from the governments which preceded ours 
and was supported by the constitution and laws 
and by the decision of the courts, and if it was 
to be abolished it should have been at the ex- 
pense of the whole people. To this suggestion 
anti-slavery men gave no heed. 

The people of the South were thus compelled 
to face the question of submitting to the de- 
struction of their property rights under a vio- 
lated constitution or of trying to secure the re- 
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withdrawing from a union hostile to them and 
seeking the protection of friendly governments. 

The anti-slavery men had much to say about 
the sin and wickedness of slavery, and about 
the slaveholders' rebellion as a means of inflam- 
ing the Northern mind. In addition to what I 
have said about the universality of slavery, 
among the nations in the past, I may call at- 
tention to the fact of the existence of slaves and 
the slave trade among the ancient Israelites; a 
people under the immediate guidance of Grod ; 
and to the repeated injunctions of the Christ, 
our Savior, to servants to obey their masters. 
And to the fact that General Washington, who 
commanded our armies during the Revolution, 
who was president of the convention which 
formed the constitution, and who was twice 
elected President of the United States, was the 
owner of a greater number of slaves than any 
other citizen at that time, being the owner of 
about 300. That Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, 
Mr. Monroe, General Jackson, Mr. Polk and 
General Taylor were all slaveholders ; and a 
great number of devout Christian men and wo- 
men were the owners of slaves. Are all these 
to be branded as criminals, as wicked and to be 
despised and their names cast into oblivion along 
with our violated constitution and laws? 

I am well aware of the sophistries, false 
statements and perversions of history employed 
by the victorious party for the purpose of ig- 
noring these great facts, and upon which they 
base the charge that the ex-Confederates were 
rebels and traitors, and that through their am- 
bitious leaders they brought about a causeless 
war. We must content ourselves with the con- 
sciousness that in the Union we sought only the 
enforcement of the constitution and laws, for 
the preservation of the rights of onr States and 
for the protection of our people ; that when we 
could not have these in the Union we attempted 
to withdraw our States from it, in order that we 
might enjoy our rights in peace under friendly 
governments. And we can safely appeal to the 
final arbitrament of history and it shall be 
written, when the passions and prejudices of the 
war shall have died out, for the vindication of 
our memories against the base and false charges 
of treason and rebellion. 

While the cause for which we contended was 
lost we see the evidence, from year to year, that 
our people are as proud of the record they made 
for their rights and for liberty as was ever any 
conqueror in the history of the past. And they 
are as proud of their success in restoring good 
government and prosperity to the people sinco 
the end of that disastrous war as they arc of the 
grandeur of the struggle they made for inde- 
pendence. John H. Eeagan. 



SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF JUDGE 
JOHN H. REAGAN. 

Judge John H. Eeagan, at the age of eighty- 
six years, died on March 6, 1905, in Palestine, 
Tex., of pneumonia. Judge Reagan was the 
last surviving member of the Confederate Cab- 
inet, having been Postmaster-General. After 
the Civil War he was elected District Judge in 
Texas and became a power in the counsels of 
the Democracy in that State. He was born in 
Sevier County, Tenn., in 1818. He soon en- 
listed in the force to expel the Cherokees from 
Te.xas, and was selected by General Albert Sid- 
ney Johnston as one of a picked escort for dan- 
gerous service, but declined the offer of a lieu- 
tenancy and became a surveyor. He penetrated 
into the Indian country about the Three Forks 
of Trinity, and was engaged in surveying that 
vicinity about three years. His was the first 
party that escaped massacre by the Indians. 
Judge Reagan was first elected to Congress in 
1856 as a Democrat after a severe contest. He 
remained in Congress until 1861, when he re- 
turned home and was elected to the State Con- 
vention, in which he voted for secession. Ho 
was chosen by the convention to the provisional 
Confederate Congress. On May 6, 1861, he was 
appointed Postmaster-General under the pro- 
visional government and the next year he was 
reappointed to the same office under the per- 
manent government. He was also acting Sec- 
retary of the Treasury for a short time near the 
close of the war. He was the only one of the 
Cabinet that was captured with Jefferson Davis 
and was confined for many months in Fort 
Warren. In 1874 he was elected to Congress 
by an overwhelming majority and was re-elected 
in 1876, and served continuously until he was 
elected to the Senate in 1887. He retired from 
the Senate some years ago to assume charge of 
the Railroad Commission of Texas — being 
chairman of the Commission when he died. 



GENERALS JOHN B. GORDON AND 
STEPHEN D. LEE. 



Beautiful Tributes to the Confederate Veterans 
from Those Who Stood the Test. 

Mimy are the eloquent tributes that have been 
offered the Confederate Veterans, but few as 
beautiful and impressive have ever been paid 
as that of the late General John B. Gordon, at 
a time when he was Commander-in-Chief of the 
survivors of the Army of the South. In one 
of his memorable addresses he spoke as fol- 
lows : 

"Of all the public honors ever paid to the 



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world's heroes, none have been so unique in 
character as those heartfelt tributes offered by 
th Southern people. Were the recipients of 
these honors the ex-soldiers of victorious armies, 
bringing to a grateful people the trophies of 
their triumphs, the world would comprehend 
the meaning of a welcome such as is here ex- 
tended ; but they were not the victors in that 
titanic struggle. They are the shattered rem- 
nants of the long since disbanded armies, which 
leave to posterity no acquisitions of territory, 
no accretions of piiblic wealth, or of political 
power. The legacy which these men leave to 
their children and people is a record of untarn- 
ished honor, and of the most heroic defenses 
struggle in human annals; and the sole com- 
pensation for their services and suffering is 
that reward which noble natures feel in such 
recognition by their grateful countrymen. 

"On the other hand, no popular assemblies of 
intelligent and high-spirited citizens in the 
world's history, were ever freer from j^artisan 
zeal or self-seeking spirit, or ignoble jealousies 
or sinister intent, and the muse of history will 
yet embalm in one of her sweetest stories the 
absolutely unselfish character and exalted aims 
of these Confederate gatherings. The pathos 
of that recital will be deepened by its simplicity 
and its beauty heightened by the lesson it will 
teach to humanity. That story will record the 
simple but sublime truth that these reunions 
occurred year after year and left behind them 
at every stage of their proceedings the indis- 
putable proofs that these broad-minded men 
were neither embittered by disappointments nor 
dwarfed by ignoble passions, nor warped by po- 
litical ambitions, nor narrowed by sectional 
prejudices, nor blinded to the interests of the 
common country by selfish aims ; but that made 
unselfish through suffering, broadened and en- 
nobled by sacrifice, refined and purified in the 
fires of affliction, they embrace as a brother 
every true lover of their country and acknowl- 
edge no superiors in devotion to the Common- 
wealth, and in imfaltering support of the laws, 
the flag, the honor and the freedom of the 
American republic." 

None the less beautiful was the tribute paid 
by General Stephen D. Lee in one of his elo- 
quent addresses. At one of the Confederate 
veterans' reunions he spoke in part as follows : 

"I behold before me here today the white 
heads of Confederate veterans, of the men who 
thirty-one years ago lost all save honor. They 
are falling now swifter than ever their com- 
rades fell on the field of battle; they have lived, 
thank God, to restore their country to freedom, 
and prosperity again — dear land ! for which 



they fought and sacrificed and suffered and 
lost ! They who are about to die, salute you. 

"There are those who confidently expect the 
time to come when Confederate graves will no 
longer be decorated with flowers— when monu- 
ments will cease to commemorate the splendid 
heroism of the devoted sacrifices of those who 
fell for their State. For one, I believe that the 
time will never come when the South will cease 
to love the Confederate soldier. He would 
have been dear to her if he had returned home 
amid the booming of cannon and the plaudits 
of victory. Mothers would have lifted their lit- 
tle children in their arms to behold the hero's 
face. Church bells would have rung a nation's 
joy and a grateful people would have showered 
honors upon his head. 

'"God did not will it so. 

"The soldier came ragged, bleeding, penni- 
less to his desolate home; with sad heart, but 
dauntless courage to restore the land he loved. 
He gave all for his country, and she, unhappy 
mother, had nothing left to give him but her 
love. Dearer, a thousand times dearer, to the 
South are her ragged heroes of 1865 than all 
her victorious sons of other years. 

"She will never believe that the men who 
drew the sword in defense of her hearthstones 
in 1861 are worthy of reproach. Shame upon 
the Southern people if they shall ever defile the 
one page of their history which is glorious be- 
yond compare— by writing over the records of 
immortal heroism, of love that counted not the 
cost, and patriotism that was faithful unto 
death, such words as these: 'They were all 
wrong; it was all a mistake.' Rather let their 
story be blotted out altogether; for their chil- 
dren will no longer be worthy to read or emu- 
late their acHevements. Until that hour, every 
nameless grave, every tattered flag, everv worn 
jacket of gray, shall find hearts to love and 
hands to cherish them. 

"The people of the South would not exchange 
the story of the Confederacy for the wealth of 
the world. At their mothers' knee, the coming 
generations shall learn from that story what 
deeds make men great and nations glorious. 

"The people who do not cherish their past 
will never have a future worth recording. The 
time is even now that the whole people of the 
United States is proud of the unsurpassed hero- 
ism, sacrifice and faithfulness of the soldiers 
and people of the Confederacy. 

* * * * The terrible past 

Must be ours while life shall last. 

Ours, with its memories, ours with its pains; 

Ours with its best blood shed like rain; 

The sacrifices all made in vain. 

Forget ? Never ! 



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HOOD'S BRIGADE ON THE MARCH. 

BY MOLLIE E. MOORE DAVIS. 

'Twas midnight when we built our fires; 

We marched at half past three ; 
We know not where our march will lead, 

Nor care — we follow Lee ! 
The starlight gleams on many a crest, 

And many a well tried blade; 
This handful marching on the left — 

This line is Our Brigade. 

Our line is short, because its veins 

So lavishly have bled; 
The missing? Search the countless plains 

Whose battles it has led. 
There are those Georgians on our right, 

Their ranks are thinning, too; 
Ah, when our fields are won, I fear 

The victors will be few; 
There's not much talking down the lines. 

Nor shouting through the gloom, 
For when the night is deepest, then 

We're thinking most of home. 

I saw yon soldier startle, when 

We passed an open glade. 
Where yellow starlight, leaf and flower, 

A fancy picture made. 
Nor has he uttered word since then, 

My heart can whisper why — 
'Twas like the spot in Texas, where 

He bade his love good-bye. 

And when, beyond us, carelessly. 

Some soldier sang "Adieu," 
My comrade here across his eyes 

His coarse sleeve roughly drew. 
So, scarcely sound, save tramjiling feet, 

Is echoed through the gloom. 
Because, when stars are brightest, then 

We're thinking most of home. 

Ha! What, an echo startles up. 

Around this rocky hill! 
Was't .shell, half-buried, struck my foot? 

iOr stay — a human skull. 
The ridge I surely seem to know, 

By light of yon dim moon — 
We halted here, three mortal hours. 

One Sunday afternoon ! 

Hush ! for in front T hoard a shot. 

And tlien a well known cry; 
It is the foe ! See where those flames 

Mount up toward the sky! 
It is the foe! Halt! rest we here, 

And wait the coming sun, 
And ere these stars may shine again 

A field is lost, or won ! 



Is won ! It is our Old Brigade, 

This line of stalwart men; 
The "long roll," how it thrills my soul 

To hear that sound again I 
God shield us, boys ! here breaks the day, 

The stars begin to fade; 
Now, steady there, fall in ! fall in ! 

Forward, the Old Brigade ! 



THE CONFEDERATE FLAG. 

BT MRS. D. GIRAUD WRIGHT. 

■'The hands of our women made it, 

Baptized in our mothers' tears 
And drenched with the blood of our kindred 

With hope for those four long years. 
Across vail and plain we watched it 

While the tide of battle rolled. 
And with streaming eyes have we followed 

The wave of each soft silken fold. 

"As high o'er our host it floated, 

Through dust and din of the fight. 
We could catch the glint of spear head 

And the flash of crimson light; 
While the blood of men who bore it 

Flowed fast on the reddened plain. 
And our cry went up in anguish 

To our God for our martyred slain. 

"And we wept and watched and waited 

By our lonely household fire, 
For the mother gave her first born 

And the daughter gave her sire ; 
.\nd the wife sent forth her husband, 

Tlio maiden her lover sweet, 
And liearts kept time in the silence 

To the rhythmic tread of their feet. 

"As they marched o'er vale and mountain 

While our banner rose and fell, 
Thougli victory often crowned it 

As tlie Northern hosts can tell. 
But the whole world was against us ; 

Our battle we fought alone, 
Till the conquerors — want and famine — 

Bade us lay our colors down. 

"Cold are the loved hands that bore it. 

Stilled are the brave hearts and true, 
Watching nor waiting can bring them, 

Wee])ing is all we can do. 
Light from our banner has faded, 

We, in its shadow forlorn. 
Have only our niem'ries left us, 

And our battle flag drooping and torn. 



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"No hand of vandal shall touch it, 

'Tis shrined in our heart of hearts 
With dearest, holiest mem'ries; 

And the burning tear drop starts; 
While laurel we weave and cypress 

For the fair, the brave, the good ; 
The only stain on our banner 

Is the stain of our heroes' blood." 



THE SOUTH'S FLAG. 

These verses were written some years ago at 
the suggestion of my friend, Miss Lida Lea, as 
together we viewed a stained and tattered Con- 
federate flag and felt how sadly, sacredly dear 
it would ever be to a Southern heart. 

Unfurl it to the breeze of heaven, 

Fling wide its crimson folds. 
For tho' in battle it waves no more, 

It precious memories holds. 

Fling wide its tattered, blood-stained folds! 

Dyed deeply, doubly red 
With the ruby tide that flowed from hearts 

Of our noble Southern dead ! 

Proud emblem of the Southland's rights, 

Aloft we'll bear thee still, 
And cherish thee, tho' no nation's rights 

Or mission thou canst fill. 

Thou art sacred to each Southern heart. 

For 'neath thy silken sheen 
Intrepid marched the bravest band 

That battle e'er has seen. 

Dipped in the blood of heroes brave. 

Bedewed with anguished tears 
Of mothers, wives and sisters dear. 

Who wept o'er soldiers' biers. 

Oh, the tears ! the tears, those anguished tears ! 

Are pearls of purest ray ; 
And in heaven above they'll deck the brows 

Of those who wore the gray ! 

Kate Daffan. 



SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. 

Confederacy, we love thy name. 

What tender memories 'round thee cling; 
We meet and talk o'er all thy fame, 

And thy sweet songs we love to sing. 

We're proud of Jackson and of Lee, 
Of Forrest, Johnston, Stuart, Hood, 

And many others crowned by thee 
In loyal, loving brotherhood. 



Oh, many songs to thee are sung. 
And many tributes paid thy name; 

Inspiring theme, to breezes flung 
Are banners of thy wondrous fame. 

We keep thee in our memory yet, 

We'll sing thy songs in coming years ; 

We would not if we could forget 
Thy peerless deeds, thy burning tears. 

For him who bore a burdened life 
To thy great honor and renown. 

We've set a day apart from strife. 
To give our president a crown. 

We do not mourn as once we might, 
We do not grieve for vanished days, 

But we rejoice that honors bright 
Are ours, a heritage of praise. 

Unconquered name. Confederacy, 

As years proclaim thy matchless reign, 

They add new laurel leaves to thee. 
Thy fame will live and never wane. 

Though all our veterans pass away. 
And time to them repose will give. 

The "soldier boys" who wore the gray 
In Southern hearts will always live. 

— Emma B. Siiindler. 
Noeogdoches, Texas. 



FATALITIES IN THE CIVIL WAR COM- 
PARED WITH LOSSES SUSTAINED 
IN OTHER HISTORIC BATTLES. 

Many persons will readily recall the 
address of General Joseph Wheeler at the 
conclave of the survivors of the South- 
ern Confederacy in Charleston, S. C, in 1899. 
In that address General Wheeler presented facts 
and figures to show the losses sustained in bat- 
tles in the Civil War, as compared with some 
of the most desperate and tragic struggles in 
history. The following extract from his address 
will be read with interest: 

"At Waterloo, one of the most desperate and 
bloody fields recorded in European history, 
Wellington's casualties did not reach 12 per 
cent., his losses being 2,433 killed, and 9,328 
wounded, in more than 100,000 men, while at 
Shiloh, the first great battle of the West, the 
casualties on one side were 9,740 out of 34,000, 
while on the other the number of killed and 
wounded reached 9,616, amounting to 30 per 
cent. Napoleon at Wagram lost 5 per cent, and 
yet the army gave up the field and retreated. At 
Racour Marshal Saxe lost 2 1-2 per cent. ; at 



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Zurich, Masseua, only 8 per cent. ; at Lagriz, 
Frederick, G 1-a per cent. ; at Marllaquet, Marl- 
boro, but 10 per cent., and at Eamilliers, 6 per 
cent. 

"Henry of Navarre's troops were reported 
'cut to pieces' at Contras, and yet his loss was 
less than 10 per cent. At Lodi, Napoleon lost 
1 1-4 per cent. At Yalmy, Frederick William's 
carnage, cost Napoleon an average loss of less 
than 14 1-3 per cent. The average loss of both 
armies at Magenta and Solferino was less than 
9 per cent. At Konigsrath in 1866 the loss wa^ 
6 per cent. At Werth Specheran, Tour, Grave- 
lotte, and Sedan, in 1870, the combined loss 
was 6 per cent. While on the historic battle- 
field of Hohenlinden, General Moreau lost but 
4 per cent, and the Archduke John lost but 7 
per cent in killed and wounded, Americans 
would scarcely call this a lively skirmish. 

"At Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, 
Atlanta, Gettysburg, Missionary Kidge, the 
Wilderness and Spottsylvania, the loss fre- 
quently reached, and sometimes exceeded, 40 
per cent, and the average of killed and wounded 
on one side or the other was over 30 per cent. 

"Of the young men who were at West Point 
during the short period of my cadetship, fifty- 
six were killed in battle, and estimating the ra- 
tio of killed and wounded at one to five, 280 
were wounded. 

"From the date of the discovery of America 
to 1861, in all wars with other nations, I find 
the record of deaths in battle of but ten Ameri- 
can Generals, while from 1861 to 1865, both 
sides being opposed by Americans, more than 
100 General officers fell while leading their 
triumphant columns. 

"From 1492 to 1861 the killed and wounded 
upon American soil in all battles, combats and 
skirmishes added together, as shown by reports 
hardly exceeded the casualties of single battles 
of the great conflicts of the Civil war." 



TRIBUTE TO JEFFERSON DAVIS 

And to the Men Who Wore the Uniform of 
the Southern Confederacy. 

The following tribute to Jefferson Davis and 
the soldiers who wore the gray is taken from 
the memorial address of Rev. Dr. S. A. Good- 
win, the "Soldier-Preacher," before Pickett 
Camp, Confederate Veterans, in Richmond : 

"We need not turn to Marathon or Ther- 
mopylae to find warriors who have wreathed 
their brow with Tmfading chaplets, nor search 
the storied archives of Spartan valor for names 
that were not bom to die. We need not rifle 
the mausoleums of Athens, nor decipher the 
moss-grown cenotaphs of Rome to find the 



names of those who carved their way to glory 
through the fiery track of war, and went up 
from battle and burning to their place among 
the stars. In all the galaxy of fame there is 
no brighter constellation than that of the "He- 
roes of the Lost Cause." 

"Poland was wiped from the list of nations 
by the iron hand of despotism ; but freedom 
did not die with Kosciusko. Emmett died upon 
the scaffold; but his name is enshrined in the 
hearts and woven in the songs of all true Irish- 
men. When the last of the Gracchi expired he 
flung dust toward heaven, and from that dust 
Marius sprang — Marius less for having con- 
quered the Cimbri than for having destroyed 
in Rome the despotism of the nobility. 

"From the blood of those Southern braves, 
wherever shed, there shall spring the preservers 
of liberty and the avengers of wrong. No ; these 
men were not traitors. That cannot be treason 
for which the mothers of the South starved and 
suffered, and sent forth their sons to sleep in 
nameless graves, or be brought home upon their 
shields. That cause can never be made odious 
for which Stewart, and Jackson, and John- 
ston died, and of which Robert E. Lee and 
Jefferson Davis were the exemplars and the 
exponents. 

"When prejudice has spent its force, and im- 
partial history has pronoimced its verdict, the 
name of Jefferson Davis will shine in equal 
splendor with those of Madison, and Monroe, 
Calhoun and Clay. No stain obscures his cre-t, 
not a sprig has been torn from his chaplet, 
and his name will be wafted in every breeze that 
sighs through his native pines, and be heard 
in every slumbering echo that awakes to the 
call of freedom." 



LEST WE FORGET— A RIGHT VINDI- 
CATED BY TRUTH OF HISTORY. 

I ask the attention of the young men of the 
South, to a few historic incidents closely con- 
nected with the once famous political dogma 
of secession, forming, in fact, part of the res 
gesta of that heretofore popular political the- 
ory which was settled forever at Appomattox 
in 1865, and which show that if Jefferson Da- 
vis was in error in advocating secession he had 
many of the most illustrious statesmen and jur- 
ists of the North on his side of the ques:ion. 
Rev. Dr. Randolph Harrison MeKim, rector 
of the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, 
D. C, who in a recent and interesting work on 
"Secession," published by him, reminds us of 
the fact known to students of history that there 
were in 1860 two interpretations of the consti- 
tution, one affirming and the other denying 



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that instrument to be a "compact." No fair- 
minded person, says the reverend doctor, will 
dispute on a priori grounds the right of the 
South to follow the interpretation which it be- 
lieved to be the true one, namely, that the con- 
stitution was a compact, a term which would 
inherently imply the right of secession. And in 
this it can be said without hesitation, the South 
held with Washington, Jefferson, Madison and 
Marshall. The famous Governeur Morris, in the 
constitutional convention of 1878, described the 
constitution as a "compact." Even Alexander 
Hamilton called the constitution a "compact," 
as did Washington himself, which proves that 
these distinguished statesmen and patriots all 
believed in the right of secession. In 1802-3, 
Colonel Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts, a 
friend of Washington and a member of his 
cabinet, advocated this States rights doctrine. 
We read that in 1811 Hon. Josiah Quincy of 
Massachusetts, in the debate on tlie admission 
of Louisiana, declared, in the house of repre- 
sentatives, his "deliberate opinion that, if the 
bill passed, the bonds of this Union are virtually 
dissolved; that as it will be the right of all (the 
States), so it will be the duty of some to pre- 
pare definitely for a separation — amicably if 
they can, violently if they must." Mr. Quincy 
was ruled out of order by the speaker, but an 
appeal taken to the house reversed the ruling 
of the chair. It is a well known fact that in 
1812, the pulpit, the press and the rostrum of 
New England advocated secession. We find that 
in 1839 as distinguished a man as ex-President 
John Quincy Adams publicly argued that it 
would be better for the States to "part in 
friendship from each other than to be held to- 
gether by restraint," and he declared that "the 
people of each State had the right to secede 
from the confederated Union." In 1842 Mr. 
Adams presented a petition in the house of 
representatives from a town in Massac!iu?etts 
praying that Congress would "immedintely 
adopt measures to peaceably dissolve the union 
of these States." And in 1844:, and again in the 
following year, tlie legislature of Massachu- 
setts, says Dr. McKim, affirmed the right of 
secession and threatened to secede if Texas 
was admitted to the Union ! 

Only fifty-six years ago, in February, 1850, 
John P. Hale of New Hampshire offered in the 
senate a petition that that body would devise 
"without delay, some plan for the immediate 
dissolution of the American Union." Senator 
Chase of Ohio and Senator William H. Seward 
of New York voted for the reception of this 
petition. 

Dr. McKim pertinently adds that "it follows 
that the people of the Southern States have 



never deserved the opprobrium that has been 
heaped upon them for asserting the right of se- 
cession, which up to 1861 had not been author- 
itatively denied, but, on the contrary, had been 
asserted over and over again by eminent states- 
men at the North as well as at the South." This 
is only part of the evidence in the case showing 
the North's frequent and serious purpose to se- 
cede from the Union. 

And let the would-be defamers of the Con- 
federate President also remember that Jeffer- 
son Davis in advocating secession simply gave 
expression to the unanimous voice of the people 
of the South. This is at last admitted by Mr. 
Rhodes, a recent Northern liistorian of our 
Civil war, but an honest and fearless man. Mr. 
Ehodes frankly acknowledges that the with- 
drawal of the cotton States from the Union had 
the support of an overwhelming majority of 
their inhabitants and that "instead of there be- 
ing a conspiracy to mislead them the Southern 
community was in advance of its ostensible 
standard bearers," and, he declares, "that had 
not Davis, Toombs and Benjamin advocated 
secession the people would have chosen other 
leaders." All of which, being at the time a unit 
in the great army of secession, I can personally 
attest as true." 



CHARACTER OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. 



His Life and Public Service Reviewed by Judge L. J. 

Storey at Ninety-Ninth Birthday Anniversary 

at Lockhart, Te.xas, June 13th. 

Speech of Judge L. J. Storey on the ninety- 
ninth anniversary of the birth of Jefferson 
Davis, at Lockhart, Texas, June 13th : 

Ladies and Gentlemen, United Daughters 
of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veter- 
ans, and You, My Comrades in Arms of the 
Confederacy, I greet you : 

It is meet indeed that we assemble here to- 
day to celebrate the ninety-ninth anniversary 
of' the birth of Jefferson "Davis, the patriot, 
sage and .spotless statesman ; the first, last and 
only President of the Confederate States gov- 
ernment. 

It is impossible to think or speak of Jeffer- 
son Davis except in connection with a long 
and eventful life crowded with stirring event'^, 
inspiring the loftiest ambition, the jmrest pa- 
triotism and the grandest heroism, of the brav- 
est and best of mankind. 

First, let us briefly follow the path along 
which he trod from obscure boyhood to that 
lofty pinnacle of fame upon which his untar- 
nished reputation securely stands as a beacon 



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light to guide the patriotic lovers of liberty 
for all time to come. 

He was at all times an earnest and thought- 
ful man, and in his school boy days always 
stood head of his class. 

His grandfather, Evan Davis, was a native 
of Wales, who came to thi.s country early in 
the Eighteenth century and settled first in 
Philadelphia and then removed to and settled 
in Georgia, then a colony of Great Britain. 
Here Samuel Davis, the father of Jefferson 
Davis, was born, and when 16 years of age 
enlisted in the patriot army and served his 
country until the close of the Eevolutionary 
war, rising to the rank of captain of infan- 
try. The war over, he returned to the home 
of his childhood to find his parents dead and 
the home a perfect wreck. He then settled 
near Augusta, Ga., where he married Jane 
Cook of Scotch-Irish descent, and in the course 
of time moved to Southwestern Kentucky, 
where Jefferson Davis was born, June 3, A. 
D. 1808. There were ten children in the family, 
five girls and five boys, of whom Jefferson was 
the youngest. 

At the early age of 16 he entered the mil- 
itarj- academy at West Point, appointed by 
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, where 
he was graduated with distinction at the early 
age of 20 years, and was at once assigned to 
duty in the regular army of the United States, 
with the rank of second lieutenant. 

He remained in the army in active servace, 
fighting Indians along the upper Mi;;sissippi 
Eiver and the Xorthern lakes and in that 
extensive region now known as the States of 
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin 
and Iowa, then inhabited alone by hostile and 
warlike tribes of savages. In A. D. 1835 he 
resigned his commission in the army and re- 
tired to private life, borrowed $10,000 from 
his brother Joseph and bought his Briefield 
plantation in the State of Mississippi, where 
he lived a quiet life for ten years. 

^ ^ -^ 

While in the army he served with such dis- 
tinguished soldiers as Colonel Zachary Taylor 
(old Rough and Ready), afterwards a major 
general in the regular army and president 
of the United States; General Winfield Scott, 
Colonel Joseph E. Johnston, Colonel Albert 
Sidney Johnston, Colonel R. M. Johnson and 
General Dodge and other famous soldiers in 
the Black Hawk and other Indian wars, and 
was promoted for his gallantry. 

In 183.5 he married Miss Knox Taylor, a 
daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor. She only 
lived a few months. In 1843 he was presiden- 
tial elector. On February 26, 1845, he married 



Miss Howell, who survived him. The next 
year he was elected to congress and at once 
became officially associated with John C. Cal- 
houn, James Buchanan, Mr. Slidell, Mr. Sed- 
den, Montgomery, Blaine, Henry Clay, Lewis 
Cass, Thomas H. Benton, ex-President J. Q. 
Adams and Andrew Johnson. Early in 1847 
he resigned his seat in Congress to accept the 
election of Colonel of the First Mississippi Ri- 
fles of volunters and went to Mexico as its col- 
onel, where he distinguished himself. Being 
severely wounded he returned to the United 
States and for two years was on crutches and 
suffered from his wounds for five years. Im- 
mediately upon his return to the United States 
the president tendered him the apjiointment 
as brigadier general of volunteers, which he 
declined, for the reason that he believed that 
such appointment in the volunteer militia 
should come from the governors of the States 
and not from the president of the United 
States, and this, in my judgment, is good, sound 
States right doctrine. 

In December, A. D. 1847, he was returned to 
the senate of the United States and began 
his service in that body at the same time with 
Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and John P. 
Hale of Xew Hampshire, beginning their ser- 
vice in the senate, where Lewis Cass, John C. 
Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John Bell of Tennes- 
see and other intellectual giants of that period 
were members. 

Upon the election of Franklin Pierce as 
President of the United States, Mr. Davis 
was appointed secretary of war, which position 
he filled with distinction and marked ability. 
After the expiration of the Pierce administra- 
tion he was again elected United States senator 
from Mississippi and served his State in that 
capacity until the beginning of the war between 
the States. And during that four years of 
bloody war he was President of the Confederate 
States government; was captured, ironed down 
in prison, remained in prison for more than 
two years, was indicted for treason in a Federal 
court, but never tried for the simple reason that 
the South had the legal right to secede and 
against the United States government he had 
committed no crime, and therefore the author- 
ities never brought his case to trial. In no court 
of law, presided over by an honest judge, could 
he have been convicted. However, a petit jury 
venire of twenty-four men was summoned to 
try him and one-half of these men were negroes 
of old Virginia. When brought from Fortress 
Monroe under a writ of habeas corpus, the gov- 
ernment was not ready for trial, and on a mo- 
tion to quash the indictment Chief Justice 
Chase held that the prisoner was not guilty of 



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the offense charged, while Judge Underwood 

held that he was guilty. The case was therefore 

certified to the supreme court of the United 

States, but his case was never tried and he 

never, therefore, had an opportunity to show 

to the world by a judgment of the highest 

and most august judicial tribunal in the world 

that under the constitution and laws of the 

United States he had committed no crime 

against the government. Why, then, that long 

and cruel war in which 1,000,000 .lives was 

sacrificed, and millions of money was 

spent and a whole section devastated and made 

bankrupt ? This question must be answered ; 

posterity will demand it. History must be 

vindicated and the truth must be told. 
* * * 

And the duty is upon you. Sons and Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy, to know tlie true 
history of the causes leading up to tliat war 
and to transmit it, in its purity, to your chil- 
dren, to the end that they may not be taught 
to believe the lie that the men of the South 
were guilty of treason against their country 
and as being actuated by no higher purpose 
than to keep 3,000,000 of negroes in perpetual 
.slavery. 

It was an effort on the part of the South 
to peaceably secede to protect her people from 
oppression and in the enjoyment of a plain con- 
stitutional right of self-government, never del- 
egated to the general government. 

On the part of the North it was a war of 
coercion in defiance of the constitution and 
laws of the land and an unbroken chain of 
decisions of the supreme court of the Ignited 
States. 

At the ven- founding of this governiuent 
there were two political parties arrayed against 
each other. Alexander Hamilton was at the 
head of one, contending for a monarcliial form 
of government, declaring that he believed that 
a monarchy such as old England was the best 
form of government. As he expre-scd it : "The 
happiest device of human ingenuity." 

Thomas Jefferson was at the head of the 
States' right party, and succeeded in writing 
his doctrine of States' right down in the con- 
stitution. Hamilton acknowledged his defeat 
on the floor of the convention, and thencefor- 
ward urged the people to vote for the adopti^n 
of the constitution, expressing, however, his 
"doubts as to the succe.=s of the experiment," 
as he called it. In 1791 he still had doubts and 
said "that it will probably be found expedient 
to go the British form" of government. And 
from that day down to the present hour there 
have always been in this government advocates 
of a centralized government, clothed with all 



political power, leaving the States as mere de- 
pendencies. 

The North has always been a manufacturing 
country, while the South has always been an 
agricultural section. These lovers of a mo- 
narcliial form of government were compara- 
tively few at first, Ijut have gradually grown in 
numbers until they are many. There were three 
questions upon which its advocates finally 
united and thereby finally secured control of the 
general government. One was the advocates 
of a high protective tariff, not for revenue 
only; not alone for the purpose of securing suf- 
ficient funds to administer the general govern- 
ment, but for the purpose of protecting manu- 
facturing interests in the North and to enable 
them to sell the products of their factories at 
a much higher price than they could have done 
<5n competition with the factories of other coun- 
tries. 

This protective tariff was in the interest of 
a favored few located then in the North and 
against the interests of the masses and by the 
masses to be paid. Every dollar of which, be- 
yond what was necessary to administer an eco- 
nomical government, was but a legalized robbery 
of the masses for the benefit of the classes, al- 
ways opposed by the States' rights democracy, 
so gallantly defended by Jefferson Davis and 
the political party to which he belonged during 
his day and time. 

The protective tariff system is and always 
has been a crime against people of the South. 
It is a hotbed in which every trust and monop- 
oly forbidden by the constitution and laws of 
our country has been hatched out, fostered and 
nursed into colossal form and strength, until 
they have become the mighty controlling power 
in this government. 

For many years the lovers of a democratic 
form of government stood like the rock of 
Gibraltar between the people and this aggre— 
sive thieving greed. This love of money, de- 
nounced by Holy Writ, ever ready to stoop to 
conquer, began to form combinations with all 
other opponents of the State's right democracy, 
and thus was combined the forces of the ad- 
vocates of a monarchial form of government, 
the advocates of the protective tariff system 
and the abolition party. 

There was nothing in the cold advocacy of 
a monarchy to arouse the masses. There was 
nothing in the greed of the protectionists to 
arou.se a sentiment in the mass of the people 
who owned no interest in the factory. 

The shibboleth, therefore, of the black re- 
publican party, "freedom to the down-trodden 
slaves of the South," was adopted. A higher 
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and laws of congress was advocated. Tlie fanat- 
icism of the Northern churches was appealed to 
and enlisted in their cause, and thus the combi- 
nation was formed ; reason was finally de- 
throned, tlie constitution and laws ignored and 
the decisions of the courts defied, the Union 
torn asunder by fanaticism. And thus the 
greatest crime of tlie age, in the name of liberty, 
was perpetuated on the people, not only of the 
South, but of the whole country. That true 
liberty for which our patriot fathers shed their 
blood' in the formation of this government was 
exchanged for a mess of pottage. 

It is true that African slavery was abolished, 
and we of the South do not regret that simple 
fact, but we know tlie legal right did not exist in 
the government of the United States or in any 
other people on earth to abolish the institution 
except the sovereign people of each slave-hold- 
ing State, acting for itself; and whatever in- 
fluence or coercion was exercised by the Federal 
government to secure that end was but an usur- 
pation of power, contrary to the constitution 
and laws of the land, and the decisions of the 
supreme court of the United States. 

It is also true that the demands of the 
protective tariff advocates have been granted 
far beyond their most sanguine expectations 
— if it were possible to measure the bounds 
of their selfish greed. This high protective 
tariff made it possible for its advocates and 
beneficiaries of the system to form the most 
gigantic trusts and monopolies that ever ex- 
isted on earth to curse and enslave mankind. 
And today they have our Federal government 
by the tliroat and are dictating its laws and 
determining who shall administer the govern- 
ment. 

Nor is it now an unusual thing to read in 
the public prints where some honored gov- 
ernment official or trusted agent is declar- 
ing that "We must get back closer to the doc- 
trine advocated by Alexander Hamilton"' (the 
monarchist), and we read of no protest from the 
party in power. Will the implied contrLict to 
which we have just referred be the next suc- 
cessful step toward the final destruction of the 
republic? God forbid it. 

* * * 

But these were not the only questions in- 
volved. The right to interfere in these we 
have named, if surrendered by the South, yield- 
ed our right of self-government and the control 
of every other local right never delegated by 
the States to the general government. That our 
young people may not be misinformed upon 
this subject, let me here remind you that at 
the date of the Declaration of Independence, 
July 4, 1776, African slavery existed in eiich 



of the thirteen colonies. Even in Boston, Mass., 
negro babies were '"bought and sold by the 
pound." And at the date of the adoption of 
the constitution of the United States every State 
in the Union except Massachusetts was a slave- 
holding State. It soon developed that negro 
labor, in the estimation of the Northern peo- 
ple, was suitable only for heavy farm labor 
in the South, so they gradually disposed of 
their slaves and then adopted anti-slave con- 
stitution and laws in their respective States. 
That school of statesmen to which Thomas 
Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis 
and the entire States' right democracy belonged, 
always contended for a strict construction of 
the constitution, and that, therefore, congress 
had no legal right to levy and collect taxes from 
the people for any purpose except for the eco- 
nomical administration of the general govern- 
ment and that the Federal government and its 
congress had no right to interfere or meddle 
with the local affairs and institutions of the 
several States. 

On this subject let the constitution speak for 
itself. On the question of taxation, in Article 
1, Section 8, power was delegated to congress as 
follows : 

"Congress shall have power, first, to lay and 
collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to 
pay the debts and provide for the common de- 
fense and general welfare of the United States, 
but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uni- 
form throughout the United States." 
* * * 

Yes, To Tax. 

Not for the benefit of a class, not to enrich 
one section and impoverish another, not for 
the general welfare of a particular section or 
class of people. But for the general welfare 
of all the States— "the United States." And 
every cent levied and collected by the general 
government for any other purpose lias been 
denounced by the courts as a legalized robbery, 
and against this robbery the South protested 
and still protests. 

As stated before, when the constitution was 
adopted, everj' State in the Union except Mas- 
sachusetts was a slave-holding State, under and 
by virtue of the constitution and laws of each 
State. It was then provided by Article 4, Sec- 
tion 2, of the Constitution of the United States 
that "No person held to service or labor in one 
State under the laws thereof, escaping into an- 
other, shall in consequence of any law or regu- 
lation therein, be discharged from such service 
or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim fi 
the party to whom such service or labor may be 
due." And the record shows that that section 
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of the members of the constitutional conven- 
tion. Here the States' rights doctrine wns em- 
phatically declared, that neither congress nor 
any other State had any legal right to interfere 
with the domestic and property rights of the 
people of any other State in the Union. 

But as if still anxious to settle the question 
of States' rights forever, two amendments were 
added to the constitution in Jefferson's time, 
known as the ninth and tenth amendments. 
They are as follows : 

"Article 9. The enumeration in the consti- 
tution of certain rights shall not be construed 
to deny or disparage other rights retained by 
the people." 

"Article 10. The powers not delegated to 
the United States by the constitution nor pro- 
hibited by it to the States are reserved to the 
States respectively, or to the people." 
* * * 

In an effort to protect the rights of the 
States under these very plain and emphatic 
articles of the constitution, congress passed 
what is known as "The fugitive slave law," 
which simply required the return of slaves 
escaping from one State into another. It w;'s 
then that the State of Pennslyvania, as did 
thirteen other Northern States, adopted solemn 
acts of their legislatures nullifying and forbid- 
ding the enforcement of this constitutional pro- 
vision and law of congress in their respective 
States, and in the celebrated Ciise of Prigg vs. 
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 16th Pe- 
ters Reports, pages 611 and 612, the supreme 
court of the United States, by a unanimous 
opinion upholding the constitution and laws 
of congress on this subject, said : Listen — 

"Historically it is well known that the ob- 
ject of this clause was to secuie to tlie cit'z ns 
of the slaveholding States the complete right 
and title of ownership in their slaves as prop- 
erty in every State of the Union into wiiich 
they might escape from the State wherein they 
were held in servitude. * * * The full rec- 
ognition of this right and title was indispens- 
able to the security of this species of property 
in all the slaveholding States, and, indeed, was 
so vital to the preservation of their interest 
and institutions that it can not be doubted 
that it con.stituted a fundamental article without 
the adoption of which the Union would not 
have been formed. Its true design was to 
guard against the doctrines and principles prev- 
alent in the nonslaveholding States by prevent- 
ing them from interfering with or restricting 
or abolishing the rights of the owners of the 
slaves. * * * This clause was, t'-erefore, 
of the last importance to the safety and security 
of the Southern States and could not be sur- 



rendered by them without endangering their 
whole property in slaves. The clai^se "was 
therefore adopted in the convention by the 
unanimous consent of the framers of it, a 
proof at once of its intrinsic and practical ne- 
cessity. * * * The clause manifestly con- 
templates the existence of a positive, unquali- 
fied right on the part of the owner of the slave 
which no State law or regulation can in any 
manner regidate, control, qualify or restrain." 

Thus spake the supreme court of the United 
States. This and numerous other cases human 
language could not have more emphatically 
declared the true intent and meaning of the 
constitution. Daniel Webster, the greatest law- 
yer and statesman that Massachusetts or New 
England ever produced, is quoted as saying: 

"I do no hesitate to say and repeat that if 
the Northern States refuse willfully and de- 
liberately, to carry into effect that part of the 
constitution which respects the restoration of 
fugitive slaves, and congress provides no rem- 
edy, the South would no longer be bound to 
observe the compact — a bargain broken on one 
side is broken on all sides." 

Again in 1851 he said: "In the North the 
purpose of overturning the government shows 
itself more clearly in resolutions agreed to 
in voluntary assemblies of individuals, denounc- 
ing the laws of the land and declaring a fixed 
intent to disobey them. I notice in one of these 
meetings, holden lately in the very heart of New- 
England, and said to have been numerously at- 
tended, the members unanimously resolved, 
'That as God is our helper we will not suffer 
any person charged with being a fugitive from 
labor to be taken from among us, and to this 
resolution we pledge our lives, our fortunes and 
our sacred honor.' " 

And Mr. Webster proceeds: "These persons 
do not seem to have been aware that the pur- 
pose thus avowed by them is distinctly treas- 
onable. If any law "of the land be resisted by 
force of arms or force of numbers, with a de- 
clared intention to resist the application of 
that law, in all cases this is levying war against 
tlie government within the meaning of the con- 
stitution, and is an act of treason, drawing 
after it all the consequences of that offense." 
* * * 

From the foundation of the government 
down to 1861 the States right doctrine was 
recognized by the party in power, by the su- 
preme court of the United States ; in fact, by 
statesmen of all parties, as constitutional. The 
difficulty was not in the construction of the 
constitution, but whether or not it was binding 
and should be obeyed or held for naught. It 
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every protective tariff advocate being opposed 
to the States' right doctrine and favoring a 
strong centralized government, sliould gradu- 
ally fall into line with the abolition party that 
claimed the right in congress and in other 
States to nullify the constitution and laws that 
sustained the doctrine, and as that partv grew 
in numbers it became fanatical and more de- 
fiant of the constitution and laws of tlie land. 
Listen to what their trusted leader said : 

Mr. Edward Quincy said : "For our part we 
have no particular desire to see the present law 
repealed or modified. \'\liat we preach is not 
TepeaJ, not modification, but disobedience." 
Thus he preached defiance to the constitution 
and laws — treason, pure and simple. 

Another said: "The citizens of a govern- 
ment tainted with slave institutions may corn- 
bine with foreigners to put down the govern- 
ment." He appealed to foreigners to aid trait- 
ors in destroying the government. 

The constitution and laws to which we have 
referred were denounced by such leaders as 
Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garri'on 
as "a covenant with death, an agreement with 
hell." And as early as 1848 Mr. Seward de- 
clared that there was an "irrepressible conflict" 
between the sections on the question of slavery, 
and that the government could not exist in 
peace — "half slave and half free." an expres- 
sion so often used by Mr. Lincoln in his mem- 
orable canvass with Mr. Douglass in the State 
of Illinois in 1858. And when it became ap- 
parent that no honest judge of the supreme 
court could ever be found to declare that the 
constitution of the United States did not pro- 
tect the rights of the people of the States in 
their local and property rights, many of tliem 
became so fanatical as to a])peal to the higher 
law doctrine, and Mr. Seward himself is quoted 
as saying: "There is a higher law than the 
constitution which regulates our authority 
over the domain — slavery must be abolished 
and we must do it." Here was one of Ihiir 
political idols, who afterward became secret \iy 
of State under Mv. Lincoln. He advocated the 
abolition of slavery, not by the States where 
slavery existed, the only constitutional way it 
could be done and the way it was finally done, 
but in obedience to the higher law, that is. in 
spite of the constitution and the rights of the 
States thcreunfler. And then follows the de- 
mands of one of those "more holy than thou" 
creatures who was not satisfied with Almighty 
God. He said : "The times denumd and we 
must have an anti-slavery constitution, an anti« 
slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God." They 
had neither then, and wanted a change. Such 
language if used today in denunciation of the 



government, the constitution and laws would 
be justly and vehemently denounced as the 
utterances of a crazy anarchists, and yet at 
Ithe time used they were the utterances of 
beloved and honored leaders in social, polit- 
ical and religious circles of the North, and 
whose memory is still cherished throughout 
that section of the country. As one of the 
many evil fruits of such teachings, the sov- 
ereign State of Virginia was invaded in Oc- 
tober, 1859, by an armed band of cut-throats, 
murderers and conspirators, led by John Brown, 
a Northern fanatic, against the government of 
Virginia and the constitutional rights of her 
people. Such an open and deliberate act of 
treason, rapine and murder ought to have re- 
ceived the emphatic and unanimous condemna- 
tion of the people of the North as it did in 
the South. But not so. Appeals were made 
for the remission of the punishment prescribed 
by the laws of Virginia, and at the North this 
ungodly traitor, this foul murderer, has been 
canonized (declared a saint) and Mr. Curry 
said that "Hughes in his 'Manliness of Christ' 
places John Brown almost on a level with the 

Son of God." 

* * * 

Well, the time did come when this nulli- 
fying sectional party secured an anti-slavery 
candidate for president, who had himself de- 
clared that "this government could not en- 
dure half slave and half free," becau.se, he said, 
in substance, that there was an irrepressible 
conflict between the sections, upon this question 
of slavery; that both slavery and the Tinion 
must be preserved. And it wa.s too true. There 
was an irrepressible conflict waged by that sec- 
tional party against the constitution and laws 
of the land and the rights guaranteed by tlie 
constitution to the people of the South. 

I have thus quoted from speeches, letters, 
utterances, laws, the constitution and decisions 
of the court of last resort, not for the purpose 
of reviving prejudices or sectional bitternes- — 
far be it from me — this government is still our 
government — but for the purpose of recalling to 
the minds of my hearers the signs of the times 
immediately preceding the war, showing the 
provocation to the South, the purity of her 
motives and to justify her in the efforts she 
made to peaceably secede from the Union and 
form a government that would protect her in 
her constitutional rights. 

And now, my comrades, since more than 
fortv-six years have passed away since the 
clash of arms in that cruel war begim, when the 
smoke of battle has cleared away, and wlien 
the mental vision is no longer obscured by 
prejudice, and when reason is once again en- 



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throned, let me say : That when we remember 
the long years of struggle in and out of con- 
gress to uphold the rights of the States, guar- 
anteed under plain and unmistakable provis- 
ions of the constitution, and when we remem- 
ber that many of the State legislatures of the 
North denounced the decisions of the supreme 
court of the United States sust-iiuing tie 
States' rights doctrine as an arbitrary power, 
and therefore null and void ; and when we re- 
member that honored leaders of that rapidly 
growing sectional party, ever opposing State's 
rights, were denouncing the constitution thus 
upheld by the supreme court, as a '"covenant 
with death and league with hell,'' and when we 
remember that "the voice of the law wa- no 
longer in the land," but that the Federal gov- 
ernment, which was prior to 1861 administered 
in accordance with the requirements of the con- 
stitution and laws, was now "browbeaten and 
defeated," and then when this sectional party, 
thus pledged to the destruction of the rights of 
the South and the centralization of tie govern- 
ment, was about to seize the reigns of govern- 
ment, what, I ask, was the South to do? She 
was thoroughly convinced that the constitution 
and laws of the United States were so de-pised 
and denounced by the leaders of the jarty com- 
ing into power that they would no longer be 
enforced, and knowing that she had the legal 
and constitutional right to withdraw from the 
Union when necessary to preserve her rights, 
no alternative was left her as free and sovereign 
States, but to withdraw from the Union or to 
submit to what she believed would be an utter 
destruction of her rights and to do so without 
a struggle was impossible for a brave and noble 
people through whose veins the blood of patriots 
flowed. She therefore seceded and the war of 
coercion followed. And for four long and weary 
years the battle raged with increasing fury. 
The very earth trembeled under the tread of 
mighty armies, while the roar of cannon and the 
rattle of musketry reverberated from the Po- 
tomac to the Rio Grande, until some portion 
of every Southern State was bathed in blood. 

The last battle of the war was fought at 
Palmetto Ranch, Te.xas, May 13, A. D. 186.5, 
where the last Confederate soldier who fell in 
battle gave up his life in defense of States' 
rights, and his name was J. J. Oliver, from 
Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas. Many of 
you knew him. 

Sons and Daughters of tl:e Confederacy, let 
me remind you that in the capitol grounds in 
the city of Austin is a splendid monument 
erected to the memory of the ConfederaJte 
dead ; on its principal front is chiseled a recital 
of the cause for which thev fought and the re- 



sults of the war. Young men and young wom- 
en, boys and girls, go with me there and with 
uncovered heads read the record as chiseled 
upon that granite rock. The truth is recorded 
there, and it reads : 

"Died for States' rights guaranteed under 
the constitution. The people of the South, 
animated by the spirit of 1776 to preserve their 
rights, withdrew from the Federal compact 
in 1861. The North resorted to coercion. The 
South against overwhelming numbers and re- 
sources fought until exhausted. During the war 
there were 22.57 engagements, in 1882 of these 
at least one regiment took part. 

Number of Men Enlisted. 

In Confederate armies 600,000 

In Federal armies 2,859,132 

Losses From All Causes. 

Confederates 437,000 

Federals _ 485,215 

# * * 

On each of the four comers of the pedestal 
stands erect a bronze figure of a Confederate 
soldier, as the very personification of the true 
chivalry of the Old South. These represent 
the four arms of the service — the infantry, t! e 
cavalry, the artillery and the navy. W\n\e in the 
center and high up upon the capstone the bronze 
figure — a true likeness of Jefferson Davi-, the 
patriot, sage and statesman, the first, last and 
only president of the Confederate States of 
America, stands erect, as in the senate of tie 
United States he stood boldly defending the 
constitution and rights of his country in his 
farewell address to that august body. His whole 
life was a sacrifice to duty and to the defense 
of the constitutional rights of the people. It 
mattered not with him where duty called, 
whether as an officer in the regular army 
of the United States defending the frontier 
against a savage foe or at the head of his regi- 
ment upon the bloody fields of Mexico, where 
by reason of his valor victory perched up'm 
the banner of his country; or whether in the 
senate of the United States or as president of 
the Confederate States government, he was ever 
foremost in defense of the constitutional riglits 
of his countrymen. 

But, my comrades, — sons and daughters of 
Confederate soldiers — who were these people 
of the old South whom he loved and served 
so well, and who today honor and revere his 
memory? Were he and they patriots, tri' d 
and true, or were they traitors to their countrv' ? 
Read and ponder well the true history of tl-.e 
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We can but be proud of our ancestry — 
proud of the government they aided to establisl), 
and proud of the principles of government they 
left for us to defend. 

I would not attempt to pluck a single laurel 
from the brow of a Northern patriot, whether 
he fought in the Revolutionary AVar, the War 
of 1813, the numerous Indian wars, or the war 
with Mexico, in all of which the Stars and 
Stripes, the flag of a united people and an 
emblem of justice and truth, were borne alnft 
by patriots and heroes from every section of the 
country, the last of these being defense of Texas 
soil and which secured a permanent peace for 
Texas and the addition to the territory of the 
United States of New Mexico, Arizona and 
the golden sands of California. But if the 
student of history desires to review the his- 
tory of those times, he will feel no blush of 
shame burning his cheek by reason of any 
failure on the part of the Old South to do 
its whole duty in defense of the honor and 
flag of his country. 

It was in old Virginia that the first public 
meeting was held and the first resolutions 
adopted calling for a congress of colonists look- 
ing to final independence, and it was the leg- 
islature of Virginia that passed the first reso- 
lution instructing the delegates in that congress 
to declare for independence, and when the tug 
of war came to defend that declaration, the 
South, with an alacrity and unanimity unpar- 
alleled in the history of wars, rushed to the de- 
fense of the country. While their brothers of 
the North did nobly by sending to the patriot 
army 100 men out of every 227 within military 
age, the South sent 100 out of every 209. The 
white male population of Pennsvlvania was 
then 110,788, while tJiat of Virginia was 110,- 
934, a difference of only 146. Pennsylvania 
sent to the army 34,965 men, while grand old 
Virginia, the home of Washington, Jefferson, 
Patrick Henry, the Lees, Madison and Monroe, 
semt 56,721 men, or 21,736 more men than did 

Pennsylvania. 

* * « 

New Hampshire had a military population 
of 513 more than South Carolina and sent to 
the patriot anny 14.906, while South Carolina 
sent 31,131, or 16,125 more men than did New 
Hampshire. 

Pennsylvania had a military population of 
nearly three times as many as South Caro- 
lina, yet she sent only 3834 more men than did 
South Carolina. 

New York had more than double the mili- 
tary po])ulation that South Carolina had, yi't 
South Carolina sent to the patriot army 29,836 
more men than did New York. 



South Carolina sent to the army thirty- 
seven out of every forty-two men able to bear 
arms; Massachusetts sent thirty-two, Con- 
necticut thirty, and New Hampshire sent eigh- 
teen out of every forty -two. And for the seven 
long years the struggle went on, when victory 
crowned their efforts, liberty was won, and the 
stars and stripes were recognized l)y the nations 
of earth as the flag of a new-born nation. 

And again in 1812-15 old England, still 
smarting under the humiliation she was com- 
pelled to submit to in the Eevolutionary War, 
again disregarded our rights on the high seas, 
seized vessels in our ports, tore sailors 
from ships floating the American flag and 
forced them against their will to serve on 
English men of war, and then it was that 
James Madison of Virginia, then President 
of the United States, sent his message to con- 
gress advising a declaration of war. When such 
true Southern statesmen as John C. Calhoun 
from the committee on foreign affairs reported 
the declaration of war, supported by Henry 
Clay, W. H. Crawford, Langdon Cheves, Wil- 
liam J. Lowndes, John Forsyth, Felix Grundy, 
Mr. Throup and R. M. Johnston of the old 
Soutli who, by their earnest advocacy of the de- 
claration, aroused the indignation of the coun- 
try and secured its passage, and Mr. Clay says 
that "All of the senators and representatives 
from South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Ten- 
nessee and Louisiana and most of them from 
Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, sup- 
ported the declaration, which had the concur- 
rence of such cities as Baltimore, Charleston 
and New Orleans." 

New England opposed the war and the gov- 
ernors of at least two of these States refused 
to send the quota of men called for by the 
president, declaring, as did the legislature of 
Massachusetts, that the war was a "wanton 
sacrifice of their best interests." 

During that war a large portion of the 
country was overrun by the British army, the 
capital" of the United States was cajitured and 
burned by the British invaders. The South 
rushed to the defense of the country, and under 
such true patriots as Andrew Jackson, at the 
head of the volunteer militia of the South, won 
imperishable fame for himself and for Ameri- 
can arms. And when the war wa.* over and the 
victory was won these illustrious soldiers were 
hailed by their countrymen everywhere as true 
men, patriots and heroes. 

* » * 

And when the Black Hawk and other In- 
dian wars were over, such distinguished de- 
fenders of the country as Colonel R. M. John- 
ston, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Al- 



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bert Sidney Johnston, Colonel Jefferson Davis, 
General Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston, 
were revered by the grateful people of the 
United States as true men, patriots and heroes. 

And again in 18-16 when the despot of Mex- 
ico sought to extend his power east of the Rio 
Grande over a large portion of Texas, then a 
State of the American Union, the tocsin of war 
was again sounded and in response to the call 
to arms every Southern State quickly furnished 
her quota of men to defend the honor and flag 
of their country. And no brighter blades were 
ever drawn in defense of this government since 
the days of Washington than those wielded in 
that conflict by such soldiers of the old SouHi 
as General Zachary Taylor, General J. Pinck- 
ney Henderson, Colonel Albert Sidney Johns- 
ton, General Robert E Lee, Colonel Jefferson 
Davis, Colonel Joseph E. Johnston, Captain 
Braxton Bragg, Captain W. J. Hardee, Captain 
Ben McCuUough and Lieutenant T. J. (Stone- 
wall) Jackson, every one of whom were gradu- 
ates of West Point, except Ben McCullough, 
and every one of them distinguished himself 
upon the bloody fields of Mexico. 

What man of the South can ever forget the 
heroism displayed by the Southern volunteer 
soldier in that conflict, and especially the gal- 
lantry of the illustrious Jefferson Davis, on 
the bloody fields of Monterey and Buena Yista, 
where he and his gallant regiment of Missis- 
sipians saved the day and won the thanks of the 
general in command. 

At Buena Vista the Mexican army was nearly 
five times as large as tlie American anny under 
General Taylor. Colonel Jefferson Davis, at 
the head of 300 men of his regiment, won im- 
mortal fame for American arms in a desperate 
charge, where one-third of his men fell with 
their faces to the foe, he himself severely 
wounded, yet he remained upon the field and 
in command of his shattered regiment until the 
battle was over and victory had perched upon 
the banner of his country. 

And so it was with the troops of every South- 
em State; opportunities were sought and when 
found valor was not wanting. The rank and 
file were true men, the very flower of the 
young chivalry of the States from which they 
came, and as a rule to the manner bom. And 
when the smoke of battle was cleared away and 
peace once again hovered over the country it 
was found that every State mourned the loss 
of her gallant sons who fell upon some bloody 
field of Mexico. 

I shall never forget how my young heart 
throbbed when I heard the first news of the 
battle of Buena Vista. Colonel Jefferson 
Davis and one-third of his regiment had fallen, 



and from that part of the field where fought 
the gallant sons of Kentucky the dispatch that 
gave an account of that hand-to-hand conflict 
where fell their noble colonel read thus : "The 
last we saw of young Henry Clay he was lying 
on his back fighting them with his sword." 

And when the war was over and the solf- 
styled Napoleon of the West had been hum- 
bled and compelled to recognize the Rio Grande 
as the true boundary between the two govern- 
ments, as claimed by the United States and 
Texas, and our patriotic amiy, flushed with 
victory, returned to our own soil, true men and 
true women everywhere sang the praise of such 
Southern heroes and their followers as General 
Zachary Taylor, General Pinckney Henderson, 
General Albert Sidney Johnston, General Jo- 
seph E. Johnston, General W. J. Hardee, Gen- 
eral Ben McCulloch and General T. J. (Stone- 
wall) Jackson as true men, patriots and heroes. 

And so it has ever been when danger 
threatened the peace, prosperity or liberty of 
the people of this country; the South with a 
patriotism unparalleled in the history of the 
world, whether the dangers have been within 
our o-rni limits and on account of civil strife, 
or invasion by a foreign foe, the South has 
thrown herself in the breach to battle for the 
right. 

And when internal troubles came her lead- 
ing citizens and statesmen, whether in or out 
of congress, but reflected the views and will of 
the masses of her people when they plead, as 
they did for years upon the floor of Congress, 
through the press, in the forum and upon the 
hustings, for a strict construction of the con- 
stitution of the United States, a strict adherence 
to the principles of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, and an uncompromising defense of 
the reserved rights of the States and people, 
holding in the very language of the constitution 
itself that the "powers not delegated to the 
United States by the constitution, not prohib- 
ited by it to the States, are reserved to the 
States respectively, or to the people." 

And when to them it seemed after many 
long and weary years of contention that the 
constitution and laws of congress passed in 
accordance therewith were openly defied by 
one section of the country to the detriment of 
the other, and to the utter destruction of the 
States' rights doctrine so dear to the South and 
so plainly written down in the constitution of 
the country. And seeing that a powerful and 
growing political party coming into power de- 
claring that this government could not exist 
without the destruction of millions of property, 
which had in course of time become peculiar to 
the South, and also for the upbuilding by the 



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general government of certain industries then 
peculiar to tlio North, by the levy and collection 
of a protective tariff to be paid by the masses 
for the benefit of the classes, and which pro- 
found jurists have declared was but legalized 

robberv. 

* * * 

Against this pro])Osed usurpation of power 
came the protest from every hamlet in the 
South. Is it any wonder then that to these 
true and tried men forbearance ceased to be 
a virtue; that they, knowing their rights un- 
der the constitution and laws of the United 
States, dared to maintain them, even when to 
do so it was necessary to turn their backs upon 
the old flag for which they had so gallantly 
fought and bled? 

And knowing that no law and constitutional 
authority existed in the general government to 
coerce a' sovereign State, they sought to peace- 
fully secede and to form a government of their 
own. Were they conscientious in this beli-:^f? 
Listen! True womanhood is ever ready to de- 
fend its conscientious convictions of the right, 
and there can be no better proof of a man's 
convictions than the energy he displays and the 
sacrifices he makes in defense of them. 

And if there is still alive on this continent 
a fanatic so blind as not to see and know that 
the South was conscientious in the steps she 
took in that great struggle, let him for once 
calmly review the record. 

Tlie first hostile gun was fired at the bom- 
bardment of Fort Sumpter, April 12, 18(U, and 
the last battle fought at Palmetto Ranch, Texas, 
near the old battlefield of Palo Alto, May 13, 
1865. 

Thus ended that long and sanguinary strug- 
gle where rivers of blood and millions of money 
were spent and many more millions of dollars 
worth of property in the Southland was sacri- 
ficed and forever obliterated. 

The men of the South were, as a rule, na- 
tives of the soil, through whose veins the best 
blood of the Anglo-Saxon race flowed. With- 
out an army, without a navy, and our ports 
blockaded, our intercourse with the rest of the 
world cut off. For an army, new recruits, army 
sup])iies and munitions of war we had to look 
to our own territory, people and resources, while 
the Federal government, with her free and un- 
restricted intercourse with every nation on 
earth, in addition to her own vast resources, her 
standing army, her splendid navy, drew supplies, 
munitions of war and new recruits from the 
nations of the earth. 

The policy of the South was to peaceably 
secede and stand on the defensive of her own 
soil, while the policy of the North was to invade 



and coerce the South. Thus the policy of both 
governments was to make of the South the bat- 
tlegrounds where the tread of mighty contend- 
ing armies and booming cannon shook thb 
earth for four long years, and where devastation, 
rapine and murder, inevitably followed where 
such vast hostile armies marched, counter- 
marched and fought. 

To the people of the South the provocation 
was great and the cause just. 

No sacrifice made by a patriotic people was 
ever so great. 

No people ever sustained a cause so long 
against such overwhelming odds and resources. 

No country so devastated, the resources of . 
no country so completely exhausted, and no 
victor ever paid so dear for the victory he won. 

The flag of no country or cause ever went 
down in defeat crowned with such a halo of 
glory. 

No cause ever had a more devoted self-sacri- 
ficing people to sustain it, while the bravery, 
the devotion, the energy, the unselfish patriot- 
ism of the noble women of the South through- 
out the entire struggle is unparalleled in the 
history of the world. 

* * * 

No armies were ever led to battle by greater 
generals, and no generals commanded better, 
braver and more patriotic soldiers. 

No brighter or purer statesmen with clearer 
conscience, purer heart or more lofty purpose 
ever wielded power or guided the ship of State 
than Jefferson Davis, the noble, gifted and il- 
lustrious president of the Confederate States. 

They may point with pride to the soldierly 
bearing and military genius of such distin- 
guished soldiers of the Northern army as Ulys- 
ses S. Grant, Meade, Thomas, Hancock and 
others, and to a large portion of those vast 
armies they commanded as soldiers who shed 
luster upon American arms. And to this eulogy 
the true Confederate soldier can, as I do now, 
say amen, amen. 

And then we turn with the exultant pride 
of a true American soldier to the undying rec- 
ord made by the immortal Robert E. Lee, Stone- 
wall Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph 
E. Johnston and a host of other such illustrious 
commanders of that 000,000 heroes who, though 
poorly clad, barefooted and illy fed, were en- 
abled for four long years to keep at bay the best 
armed, the best equipped, the best fed and the 
best drilled army of over 2,800,000 soldiers that 
ever trod the earth. And when you have looked 
upon the record tell me, was it not the heroism 
and splendtid achievirmante of this defeated 
army of the old South that has slied the bright- 



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est and most imperishable luster upon American 
arms ? 



These were true men, great, grand and pe- 
culiar even in defeat. And when their flag 
went down in gloom, this remnant of the best 
army the world has ever seen returned to the 
smoldering ruins of desolated homes, and with 
an energy equal to the dire necessity of the 
times, and supported as of old by that true 
manhood which had ever characterized and sus- 
tained them, proceeded to repair their lost for- 
tunes. And in the course of time, by their 
upright conduct and force of character they 
were enabled to rid the country of carpetbag 
rule, the worst and most vulture-like govern- 
ment known to the civilized world. 

And then the South, the New South, if you 
please to call it, began to bud and bloom as the 
rose. 

The climate of the Old South is still the 
climate of the new. 

Her recuperative powers are invigorating 
and strengthening the new. 

Her patriotism is, as ever, ready to defend 
the right. 

And her statesmen, true men and patriots, 
scions of the old stock whose veins are still 
warmed by the blood of the Southland, are 
as true as over to the constitution and the laws 
of the land, and are still pointing to that hal- 
lowed instrument as the safeguard and only 
palladium of our liberties. 

And so it is that the true principles of jus- 
tice, the patriotism, the statesmanship and the 
true manhood of the Old South, thanks to Al- 
mighty God, still animate, direct and guard 
the new. 

And it is well ! It is well ! for the time is 
coming, indeed is at hand, when this commer- 
cialism, this mad love of money, denounced by 
holy writ as the "root of all evil," is fast con- 
suming the patriotism of the governing classes 
of this Union and is fast building up a money 
aristocracy, which is being fed and fattened 
upon the substance of the masses. They are al- 
ready beginning, like kings, to claim the God- 
given right to rule and to collect and distribute 
His gifts to whom they will. 

And history fails to record an instance where 
an aristocracy like this has surrendered the 
right to rule and to absorb the wealth of the 
country without a struggle. Nay, verily, they 
will attempt to throttle liberty itself before 
they surrender such a privilege. 

Undoubtedly they now control the legislation 
of congress and are claiming much at the 
hands of the courts. 



God forbid that this last fortress shall ever 
surrender. I have faith that it will not, but if 
its judgments are again ignored the time will 
and must come when the true men of this coun- 
try will know no North, no South, no East no 
West, but will unite for their country, 'the 
whole country, and nothing but their country. 
And for the restoration of the constitution and 
of equal and exact justice to all and exclusive 
privileges to none, will, like the patriots of old, 
pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes 
and their sacred honor. And like the patriot 
fathers will proceed to redeem that pledge. 



My comrades, our ranks are growing thin. 
We are fast approaching our last camping 
ground. The shades of the evening of life are 
fast gathering about us, and the last tatoo will 
soon bid us take our rest. The mantle you so 
worthily wore must henceforth rest upon shoul- 
ders of the Sons and Daughters of the Confed- 
eracy. 

Be of good cheer; I have an abiding faith 
m the blood that animates their being. They 
are Sons and Daughters of the Old South, and 
well know and understand why we can review 
our record of the past without a blush of shame 
or a regret to mar our declining years, for "we 
fought a good fight and we kept the faith." 

My comrades, I am no poet, but let me in 
conclusion express my thoughts in a random 
shot in rhyme : — 

CONFEDERATE COMRADES. 

At evening tide, when our shadows grow long, 
We welcome thoughts of the glorious past. 
When buoyant with youth and the future looked 

bright. 
We thought not of the past, in the future was 

light. 

In the vigor of youth, athletic and strong, 
Hope gilded the future, right could never be 

wrong ; 
Faithful to teachings of patriots true. 
The bravest and best the world ever knew. 
We took for our guide the constitution and laws, 
WTiich blind justice held out to the faithful few. 

Wliile others, like Phillips, Lloyd Garrison and 

Seward, 
Proclaimed a higher law doctrine, fanatical and 

new. 
And others, like Quincy, boldly proclaimed it 

aloud 
For a new constitution, new Bible, new God. 



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Pennsylvania's legislature and thirteen others 

in line, 
Kesolved that the constitution and laws of the 

land 
Should never be enforced in that region and 

clime ; 
In this thev defied the court's decree, 
Though the" highest on earth they knew it to be, 
And the constitution, they declared it to be, 
A covenant with death and hell's decree. 

Thus swept they from altars of patriots sub- 
lime 

Everj' vestige of right to give place for that 
crime. 

Could patriots submit, without striking a blow, 

To such treason as this ? Xo.. never, no, no ! 

Like our patriot fathers of seventy-six. 
We preferred to die than co'^tardly submit ; 
So to arms we flew, like patriots true. 
And unfurled our banner of red. white and blue, 
And for four long years bore it aloft 
Over fields we won and over fields we lost ; 
But permitted it never to trail in the dust — 
Yea, we bathed it in blood, for our cause was 
just. 

Against overwhelming odds and resources we 

bore it. 
Until half of our army lay dead on the field; 
No sacrifice made by patriots true 
Were ever so great as those we knew. 

Our Six hundred thousand patriots true, 
The bravest and best the world ever knew. 
Fought twenty-eight hundred thousand men in 

blue. 
On gon- fields two thousand or more, 
We drenched the earth with the blood of our 

foe; 
Exhausted at last by overwhelming odds, 
We srounded our arms, too weak to do more. 

Grand Eobert E. Lee, commander superb, 
Knowing all was lost save honor, he cried : 
'"We'll stack our arms as we face the foe 
And furl our flag never furled before." 

A sacred memento of a glorious past. 
Crowned with a halo never surpassed. 
Upon tlie bier of our countrv- we laid it at last. 
With the heroes dead who bore it. 

Our patriot president, great, grand and true; 
They bound him in chains, at Fortress Monroe; 
Indicted for treason, but never was tried, 
Because, on the constitution and courts he re- 
Ued. 



Chief Justice Chase boldly declared, 

Xot guilty of treason; that, Underwood denied, 

So to the court supreme his case was sent, 

But no trial there was ever meant. 

To give him a trial he alwa\"!> knew 

Was to vindicate the South as patriots true. 

Many long and weary years he passed. 
Praying for his trial and victory at last; 
It came, not in a court's final decree, 
But between the lines the world can see 
That the constitution of our country sheltered 
Davis and Lee. 



THE SOUTH'S WONDERFUL PROGRESS 
SINCE THE WAR. 



A glance at the history of the South since the 
end of the Civil War will show that it has made 
wonderful strides forward in its various indus- 
tries. In the process of rebuilding, our people 
have been sustained by the same spirit that 
bore them up during that bitter struggle against 
enormous odds. 

Save the spirit that sustained the South in 
a four years' war against enormous odds, there 
is nothing, perhaps, comparable with the spirit 
which has dominated the South in its task of 
rehabilitation during the past forty years. The 
progress it has made in that period has no 
parallel in history. 

Survivors of the Confederacy may readily 
recall the details of the appalling wreck and 
ruin which they faced when they turned their 
backs forever upon the battlefields that they 
had made illustrious, the forcible confiscation 
of $2,000,000,000 in one form of property, the 
disappearance and destruction of about $1,500,- 
000,000 in the shape of mills and factories, 
bams and granaries, railroads, insurance in- 
vestments, banking capital and the plunder of 
personal possessions, a disorganized and demor- 
alized labor system, lands laid waste or returned 
to wilderness; but, above all. the death or crip- 
pling for life of quite 200,000 of the flower 
of the productive and directive population. The 
memory of that awful plight is grievous, but 
against it and dispelling many of its shadows 
is the fact of subsequent achievement by the 
survivors and their worthy sons. 

That achievement may well form the basis 
of an American epic. The story of its material 
side alone is enough to inspire deeply interest- 
ing volumes. While awaiting the appearance of 
those volumes, a few facts cannot be recalled 
too frequently. 



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Forty years have passed into history since 
the last gun was fired that ended one of the 
greatest conflicts recorded in history, leaving 
the South, one of the richest agricultural belts 
in the world, a veritable waste. Today is wit- 
nessed a progress in the achievement of brain 
and muscle, in the sciences, arts and industr'es 
unprecedented and absolutely unheard of in 
the history of nations. The old institutions 
which they cherished, but which had fallen by 
the sword, have gone forever. The South today 
blooms like a rose with its people nestled on 
their farms and in their hives of industry like 
busy bees. Magnificent cities have sprung 
forth as by enchantment from the ashes and 
ruins of those that went down under shot and 
shell and in the cruel flames of Civil War. 

The South has long since thrown open its 
gates and invited the men of the North and all 
other sections to enter with their capital and en- 
terprise and lend a helping hand to the great 
work of restoration. Eeconciled and reunited, 
the men of this nation are today working out 
the great destiny of the South and the whole 
nation. 



GRAND TRIBUTE TO GEN. R. E. LEE. 

By a United States Military Critic. 

Major Eben Swift of the general staff. Unit- 
ed States Army, in discussing the Wilderness 
campaign, declared that the most important 
point derived from a study of the battles of the 
Civil war, compared with those of the present, 
is the question of generalship and strategy. 

"Lee was the only general of Jfapoleonic type 
who ever lived," declared Major Swift, "and 
■whether greater or not, who shall say? Of all 
great soldiers no one but Lee probably encoun- 
tered as dangerous an adversary as Grant. Na- 
poleon yielded at the last to smaller odds and 
his disaster was complete, but Lee's army at the 
end of the Wilderness campaign was aggressive 
and high-spirited as ever. Lee made five cam- 
paigns in a single year, no other man and no 
other army ever did so much. Napoleon's ^ucky 
star' often brought victory which his combina- 
tions had not prepared and saved him from dis- 
aster which he had not foreseen. It will be hard 
to find where luck and good fortune ever re- 
trieved a mistake of Lee, or where the happy 
inspiration of a subordinate ever gave him a 
victory or saved him a defeat. Lee's opponent 
belonged to a different t)'pe. He was the modem 
embodiment of force in war. He cared not for 
ruse or strategy in its accepted form. Although 
he made nine flanking movements between the 
Rapidan and the James, he seems to have pre- 



ferred the frontal attack. Strategy was reduced 
by him to a study of objectives, and objectives 
were reduced to one — the hostile army. Grant's 
campaign was hardly over wlien another great 
strategist came upon the field of war. Moltke 
conquered Austria and France. He introduced 
many new elements into the art of war, but in 
his strategy we will observe the counterpart of 
Grant. In his five days' battle around Metz 
his proportion of loss closely approached what 
I have given for other modern battles. In the 
great war in Eastern Asia we watch Oyama's 
battles, and we are tempted to believe that he 
is modeling himself upon the strategy of U. S. 
Grant." 



DIXIE." 



The Song of the South Which Made Daniel 
Emmet Famous. 

Southrons, hear your country call you ! 
Up, lest worse than death befall you ! 
To arms ! To arms ! To arms in Dixie ! 
Lo! all the beacon fires are lighted; 
Let all hearts be now united. 
To arms ! To arms ! To arms in Dixie ! 
Advance the flag of Dixie ! 

Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 
For Dixie's land we take our stand. 
And live or die for Dixie ! 

To arms ! To arms ! 
And conquer peace for Dixie ! ' 

Hear the Northern thunders mutter! 
Northern flags in South winds flutter! 

To arms ! 
Send them back your fierce defiance! 
Stamp upon the accursed alliance ! 

To arms! 
Advance the flag of Dixie! 

Fear no danger! shun no labor! 
Lift up rifle, pike and saber! 

To arms! 
Shoulder pressing close to stoulder, 
Let the odds make each heart bolder! 

To arms! 
Advance the flag of Dixie! 



How the South's great heart rejoices 
At your cannons' ringing voices! 

To arms! 
For faith betrayed and pledges broken. 
Wrongs inflicted, insult spoken. 

To arms! 
Advance the flag of Dixie ! 



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Strong as lions, swift as eagles, 

Back to their kennels hunt these beagles ! 

To arms ! 
Cut the unequal bond asunder! 
Let them hence each other plunder! 

To arms ! 
Advance the flag of Dixie! 

Swear upon our country's altar, 
Never to submit or falter ! 

To arms ! 
Till the spoilers are defeated, 
Till the Lord's work is completed, 

To arms ! 
Advance the flag of Dixie! 

Halt not till our Federation 

Secures among earth's powers its station ! 

To arms! 
Then at peace, and cro^\'ned with glory, 



Hear your children tell the story! 

To arms ! 
Advance the flag of Dixie! 

If the loved one weep in sadness, 
Victory soon shall bring them gladness. 

To arms ! 
Exultant pride soon vanish sorrow; 
Smiles chase tears away tomorrow, 
To arms ! To arms ! To arms, in Dixie ! 
Advance the flag of Dixie! 

Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 

For Dixie's land we take our stand, 

And live or die for Dixie! 

To arms ! To arms ! 
And conquer peace for Dixie! 
Advance the flag of Dixie ! 

To arms! To arms! 
And conquer peace for Dixie ! 



HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE AT GETTYSBURG. 

(By Dr. John 0. Scott of Sherman, Tex.) 



Of all the battles fought on this continent 
none compares with Gettysburg. 

Take it all in all, the historian must con- 
clude that it was the grandest, greatest and 
most important battle in history. 

Greatest, for during the three days' contest — 
July 1, 2, and 3, 1863 — there were displayed 
more acts of daring, persistent, dauntless brav- 
ery, than in any battle yet chronicled, and most 
important, for the retreat of General Leo was 
the death knell of the Confederacy, forever set- 
tling the permanency of a free, united govern- 
ment of compact States, and abolishing slavery 
from this land. 

For the failure at the battle of Gettysburg 
some writers unjustly criticise General Lee for 
permitting the corps of his army to be so far 
from each other when the battle commenced. 
Very many without just cause reproach General 
Ewell for not advancing on the evening of the 
first day's battle and taking possession of Cem- 
etery Heights. 

Not a few, without reflection, censure Gen- 
eral J. E. B. Stuart, the great cavalry chief, for 
not being with General Lee in time of battle. 
Wjhy he was not there no one has ever known. 
The secret died with General Lee. 

Others have unkindly abused General Long- 
street, partly through pre^'udice and partjy 
through ignorance, for not making the charge 
on the morning of the second day's battle, in- 
stead of waiting until 4 o'clock in the after- 



noon, when the enemy were reinforced and were 
in convenient distance to concentrate troops on 
the Round Tops. 

If any one is culpable posterity must decide 
that question, for after this generation has 
passed off the stage of action this great pivotal 
battle of the war will be read and discussed 
as of Saratoga, Waterloo, Pharsalia and other 
memorable contests. 

The daring, reckless bravery of the Cossacks 
placed the name of Peter the Great among the 
heroes of Christendom. 

The Old Guard, that bore the eagles of Na- 
poleon from ilarengo to Waterloo, shed a halo 
of glory on the name of their adored leader 
which as yet charms the people, enthuses the 
historian to write and gives the orator subject 
matter to magnetize his audience. 

For heroic acts collectively and individually 
there has been no collection of armed men, un- 
der any commander, that has surpassed Hood's 
Brigade of Texans. 

Colonel Philip Alexander Work, in his nar- 
rative of this battle, has truly written that "the 
success of the Texan regiments was not due to 
the training of Hood or any other commander, 
but that they were composed of the very pick 
and flower of an intelligent, educated, advent- 
urous and high spirited people. Infused with 
the spirit of chivalry, the Texans on every bat- 
tlefield displayed the sublime, fearless, exalted 
courage of the heroes of the Alamo and San Ja- 



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cinto, adoring their Lone Star flag and guard- 
ing its unsullied record as a dutiful son the 
name of an honored father. We believe tliat if 
General Hood had not been wounded at the 
commencement of the charge July 2, 186:3, he 
would have led the Texans in rear of the Round 
Tops and gained a glorious victory. For Colonel 
Robert Michael Powell writes that "my regi- 
ment was on the extreme right, 400 yards from 
the left wing of the brigade, and in the very 
commmencement of the battle, before the firing 
of the great signal gun. General Hood rode up 
to me and pointed to Great Round Top as the 
direction for me to take with my regiment, 
whose flag should be the leader for the brigade. 
Before us stood in serried, rugged defiance 
Great Round Top, with Little Round Top lean- 
ing against it." 

Colonel P. A. Work has given a little history 
of the glorious achievements of the heroic Tex- 
ans in this battle, which as yet no historian has 
recorded, and has rendered the Texans that 
meed of praise which the patriotic people of 
this grand State will rejoice to hear of, remem- 
ber and treasure forever. 

Colonel Work writes : "I sent from my regi- 
ment Charles Kingsley and William H. Bar- 
bee to reconnoiter Little Round Top to ascer- 
tain and report the probable force and number 
of the guns of the Federals in possession of it, 
there being no other thought than that the 
enemy had taken possession of the vantage 
ground and the key of the whole field. The 
scouts reported in my hearing and presence 
that they had ascended Little Round Top and 
there was not a man or gun on it ; that from 
the summit they saw a ridge all the way two 
and a half miles long to Gettysburg, and be- 
hind this ridge a line of Federal infantry, and 
battery after battery of artillery, whereupon 
General Hood said to one of his staff. Major 
W. H. Sellers: 'Go as fast as your horse can 
carry you and explain all this to General Long- 
street, and ask him to permit me to move by 
the right flank, so as to be able to envelop that 
knob,' pointing to Little Round Top, 600 or 
800 yards in the distance, a little southeast of 
where the Texans were in line of battle. In a 
few moments Major Sellers returned with the 
message from General Longstreet: 'You will ex- 
ecute the orders you have already received.' 
Thereupon General Hood remarked : 'Very 
well ; when we get under fire I will have a di- 
gression." 

Charles Vidor, A. Wakelee, Wm. Schadt, W. 
A. Bedell and Wm. von Hutton of the Galves- 
ton Company, First Texas, were witnesses to 
this scene on the eve of battle, saw the scouts 
return and heard their report. A few momenta 



later, about 4 o'clock, the great signal gun was 
heard, when General Hood, rising in his stir- 
rups, being about twenty feet in advance of the 
First Texas, said : "Forward, my Texans, and 
win this battle or die in the effort !" His 
thrilling words, like an electric shock, passed 
along the Texas ire^ments 'arrayed in line 
of battle impatiently waiting the shrill notes of 
the bugle for advance, their beloved general, 
Robertson, in command. Presently I saw a 
spherical case shot explode twenty feet over 
General Hood's head, saw him sway to and fro 
in his saddle and then start to fall from his 
horse, when he was caught by one of his aids. 
Seeing a battery 600 or 800 yards on the crest 
of Little Round Top, I directed my command 
to it, as it was always my rule when under fire 
in battle not to halt until I took the battery in 
front of me." 

The distance from the Spring Branch 
(Plum Run), at the base, to the sum- 
mit of Little Round Top is 75 to 100 
yards, and is a mass of granite stones piled on 
each other, and must have been very difficult 
to climb, for Mr. James Williams of Coleman 
County writes that his company came to a large 
rock which they could not get over, when Mr. 
H. H. Henricks, a very tall man, placed his 
back to the stone and assisted his comrades to 
climb over him. When all were up they in 
turn assisted him over. 

Captain W. E. Barry of Navasota, whose 
brother, John Barry, was severely wound- 
ed in this battle, afterward killed at 
Chickamauga, in a letter to us describ- 
ing the charge up Little Round Top, 
narrates that while ascending he came across 
a deep crevice in the rocks and looking down 
he saw in the bottom a German soldier, so be- 
smeared with white clay as to be scarcely recog- 
nizable. The German was so frightened that he 
begged piteously for mercy. He was so terri- 
fied from the deafening yells and threatening 
shouts of the advancing Texans that he chose 
the alternative of jumping in the deep hole and 
going to the devil rather than face the coming 
Texans. Privates Knox, J. and B. Milam, 
Woodhouse, E. Newsome, Thompson, Parker, 
Davis, Wren and others of that heroic band saw 
George A. Branard of Houston go in front of 
all. Finding the highest and largest rock on the 
crest of Little Round Top there he planted the 
adored standard of the Texans, adorned with 
the Lone Star, shining far off to friend and 
foe with the effulgence of its glory. 

Pretty soon it attracted the attention of the 
enemy, who, firing a shell at the signal, broke 
the flagstaff and hurled the hero unconscious 
down the slope of the mountain. He was ten- 



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derly cared for by his brave color guard, Alex 
J. Watts and Ira Parker. The latter died of 
wounds received here. The flag was immedi- 
ately replaced, and the advancing column of the 
Texans, by their steady aim killed and drove 
away to the other side of the ridge, some 600 
or 800 yards distant, the infantry supporting 
the battery. 

ColonelWork relates : "After the First Texas 
captured the battery the Third Arkansas, on my 
left, was being hard pressed. In this critical 
juncture I ordered Major Bass to face about 
with one-half the First Texas and flank the 
enemy, which maneuver he bravely and skill- 
fully executed, thereby preventing the Third 
Arkansas from being routed and enabling it to 
get into line on the crest of the mountain under 
shelter of the rocks with the First Texas." 

Willis James Watts of Palestine, in a history 
of the battle, writes that in assisting the Third 
Arkansas, which recoiled as far back as the 
stone fence. Lieutenant Ben Campbell and C. 
W. Butler were killed, and Captain Woodard, a 
physician from Palestine, who was afterward 
killed at Front Royal, was severely wounded. 

J. E. Stinson and W. J. Watts were among 
the first to reach the captured battery, and re- 
joicing in the heroism of the Texans, Stinson, 
mounting a captured gun, exultantly "shook the 
fragment of his blade and shouted victory." 

Captain George T. Todd of Jefferson and 
E. P. Derick, after fighting gallantly to almost 
the summit of Little Round Top, sheltered 
themselves behind a large boulder. Wliile fir- 
ing on the enemy a bullet from the foe struck 
E. P. Derick, scattering his brains in the face 
of Captain Todd. Andrew Dennis and W. A. 
Duvall were killed with hands on the captured 
gims. Immortal heroes ! 

T. L. McCarty of Corsicana, who was in that 
famous charge — which is an imperishable hon- 
or to him and his famil}' — says that Sargeant 
William Porter was mortally wounded by a 
shell and his comrades buried him with the 
honors of war on the side of the mountain ; 
that Jack Lewis, who was killed at Chicka- 
mauga, and Rich Curtis, took hold of the trail 
of one of the captured guns and turned it 
around with the muzzle pointing toward the 
enemy. For want of ammunition the gun could 
not be fired. 

Privates C. L. Freeman and Beavers were 
witnesses, among others, of the heroism of 
Alf. M. George who was among the first to 
reach the captured cannon. 

Alf M. George of Albany, Texas, informs us 
that he followed the retreating foe some dis- 
tance on the top of the mountain, where he 



and his comrade, C. L. Freeman, were severely 

wounded. 

J. E. Hickman of Bibb, Texas, relates that 
when the First Texas Regiment ascended near- 
ly to the top of the mountain the regiment 
halted. It was a "hot situation, almost like the 
bad place." Here Colonel Work asked Lieu- 
tenant John T. Smith if with seventy men or 
more he could take the hill. The lieutenant 
replied: "I will try," at the same time shout- 
ing to his comrades. "Come on, boys !" leading 
them to death and glory. 

The top of this mountain where this battery 
was captured by the First Texas is a level 
plateau 60 to 75 yards from east to west ; and 
from this place to the opposite side of the ridge, 
northeast, where the enemy were firing at them, 
was a distance of 60C to 800 jards, and from 
where the battery was captuied to the end of 
the ridge a distance of 75 yards. 

During the night Captain Sam A. Wilson 
requested of Colonel Work permission to bring 
off the captured cannon. He, Colonel Richard 
J. Harding, Jeff Brady and others crawling to 
the cannon, picked out of the path over which 
the guns were to be drawn, all stones and large 
pebbles, not speaking above a whisper, wrapped 
the wheels with blankets and brought the guns 
off so carefully that the noise was not heard 
100 j'ards away. Colonel Harding was one, 
with Major W. H. Martin and other Texans, 
who at the Battle of the Wilderness prevented 
General Lee from leading the charge in person. 
The guns were delivered to Major Riley, quar- 
termaster of the division. 

Col. Work writes : "After nightfall the Fed- 
erals were as mute as mice, not sounding a 
bugle or gun. They were making a retreat or 
getting ready for one, but General Lee having 
no cavalry, had no means of ascertaining it, and 
after the firing ceased the Confederates were 
busy caring for the wounded." 

The night was dark, still on the field of 
carnage, after the horrid strife, the stars were 
shining through the smoke of battle silent wit- 
nesses, dimly lighting the death scene. There 
weltering in their life blood cold and pale in 
the embrace of death, on the slope and the top 
of the mountain, lay the gray clad warrior from 
the banks of the Trinity, side by side with the 
blue trousered veteran from the heights of the 
Hudson. 

At 2 o'clock in the morning of July 3, 1863, 
General Law ordered Colonel Work to with- 
draw the command from the top of the moun- 
tain. 

Colonel Work left Lieutenant J. J. Quarles 
with his company as a picket guard in DeviFs 
Den, a dismal mausoleum of glory crowned 



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Texas heroes. This weird rocky glen, destitute 
of vegetation, appeared as the habitation of 
witches, hobgoblins, ghosts and devils to the 
Texans passing through it in the night to join 
the Fourth and Fifth Texas, whom they found 
at the western base of Round Top, one-quarter 
of a mile distant. 

During the afternoon of July 3, Colonel Work 
ordered Major Bass with the First Texas to 
intercept some Federal cavalry that were mak- 
ing their way to the rear. In the encounter 
General Famsworth was wounded by Armand 
Taylor of the First Texas Cavalry. After being 
wounded General Farnsworth killed himself 
with his own pistol. The cavalry was put to 
flight and the baggage train of General Lee's 
army was saved by the bravery of the First 
Texas under Major Bass. 

Having narrated how the brave Texans un- 
der the heroic Work charged through the open 
field and fearlessly ascended the rugged heights 
of Little Round Top, the mountain in front 
of them spouting destructive fire from batteries 
on its summit like the dreadful volcano, we re- 
joice and are proud to relate how the Fourth 
Texas, under the intrepid Colonel B. F. Carter, 
that eventful charge, diverging to the right 
from the First Texas, climbed the monster 
boulders and waded through the bloody chasms 
of Devil's Den, every inch of ground being 
stained with the best blood of Texas' noblest 
sons, and there joining the Fifth Texas, hand 
in hand, shoulder to shoulder made the most 
daring, reckless and bravest assaults ever yet 
chronicled in prose or verse, driving the enemy 
to the crest of the mountain, killing two gen- 
erals, many subordinate officers and privates. 

William H. Martin, an honored son of Texas, 
who was a captain in the Fourth Texas, in ans- 
wer to a letter, writes: "Most of the thrilling 
scenes of this battle have passed from my mem- 
ory. When General Longstreet ordered the 
charge he galloped his horse in our front, lead- 
ing the Fourth Texas." 

Hon. John M. Pincknev of Hempstead, in 
answer to our request for his experience at 
Gettysburg, says: "I was a mere boy when 
I fought that battle under the colors of the 
Fourth Texas. I remembered the regiment 
charged over a plain through Devil's Den to 
a mountain covered with large rocks 400 or 500 
yards away. Here we charged and recharged, 
every one striving to get to the summit." 

The heroic Ed Francis, with measured 
step, like Mars himself, fearlessly upholding the 
Lone Star banner, "by angels hands to valor 
given," tattered and torn by balls and shell and 
sealed with the crimson blood of the brave Col- 
onel Warwick, inscribed the name of Texas in 



imperishable characters on the escutcheon of 
fame. After gallantly fightiiig we were forced 
to the foot of the hill we charged so repeatedly. 

Mr. Val C. Giles of Austin thinks Colonel 
Carter was wounded after passing Plum Run, 
the ravine at the foot of mountain, where the 
fighting was very severe. He remembered 
seeing him before he crossed the ravine and 
recollects a courier riding up to Major Rogers, 
who, having a shrill voice, said to the courier: 
•'Present my compliments to General Law and 
ask him if he expects me to hold the world in 
check with the Fifth Texas." 

Dr. J. C. Loggins of Ennis, Texas, was cap- 
tured in this battle about one-half way up Great 
Round Top. He was taken further up the 
mountain side, where he saw Colonel Powell, a 
wounded prisoner, the Federals supposing him 
to be General Longstreet. He says it was a 
severe ordeal charging through Devil's Den, 
that rocky tabernacle of unsepulehered heroes, 
and that Colonel J. C. G. Keys was wounded 
in that disastrous place, where the precious 
blood of Texas sons stained every boulder. 

Having spoken of the journey of the First 
Texas over chasm and boulder and precipice to 
the formidable summit of Little Round Top, of 
the Fourth Texas' trying ordeal through that 
calamitous Devil's Den, where death held high 
carnival, where huge destruction shook the 
earth beneath with its giant .strides and with 
flaming sword felled with pitiless force the he- 
roes from the Texan land, we will describe those 
memorable charges of the Fifth Texas at the 
slaughter pen in the gorge of the mountain. 
We will use Colonel Powell's language : "After 
crossing the pike we came to a small meadow, 
where we were greeted with a volley of grape- 
shot, which did but little damage. Then, hur- 
rying on to the foot of Great Round Top, thence 
to the gorge of the two mountains, we met the 
Fourteenth L^nited States regulars, whom we 
soon demolished. We then moved up the side 
of the mountain to a level plain, which reached 
across the slaughter pen, where I could see the 
enemy hurrying up, getting into line. Wishing 
to secure a position on the opposite side of the 
gorge I appealed to Law's brigade to support 
my right and give me protection in the flank. 
The Fifth Texas boldly rushed to the struggle, 
but Law's brigade made no effort to protect my 
flank, and for the first time in its history the 
Fifth Texas recoiled in the slaughter pen and 
yielded the field. Here the stubborn and ag- 
gressive Lieutenant Colonel King Bryan was 
wounded and the gallant Rogers permanently 
disabled. The valiant Cleveland, whose voice 
was like thunder in the roar of battle, called 
out : 'Fifty dollars to the first man who crosses 



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the work at Round Top !' Sergeant Ross sprang 
forward, when Cleveland spoke: 'Come back 
to your place, Sergeant Ross ; color file not in- 
cluded !' I have always thought the Fourth 
Texas had the brunt of the battle at the Devil's 
Den and the Fifth Texas the tough end at the 
slaughter pen. 

After being wounded and captured I was 
carried further up the mountain and laid be- 
side Lieutenant White of the Second Minnesota, 
who was severely wounded with two bayonet 
wounds, one in the side and the other in the 
arm, besides several bullet wounds. During our 
stay together on that ever memorable night of 
suffering, grief and misery, Lieutenant White, 
who was the bitterest foe I ever met, said to 
me: 'If the charge had been made two hours 
sooner it would have been a complete victory 
for the Southerners.' He informed me that a 
Texas soldier made three efforts to get his col- 
ors, and in the last encounter he killed him. 
The flagstaff was lost, but the lieutenant still 
held in his clinched hand where he lay wounded 
the treasured flag of the Second Minnesota. He 
praised the Texans and said they were the best 
marksmen in tJie army. Every Ijullet from the 
Texans did its execution. Wlien five pieces of 
artillery were rushed to the front all the horses 
were killed, and out of the regiment of 247 men 
of the Second Minnesota 200 were wounded 
and slain. On the mountain side, facing this 
death carnival, while the bright stars shining 
in the firmament were weeping bitter tears over 
this ghastly sight and the winds were moaning 
for this agonizing scene, the two warriors of the 
blue and gray lay side by side, so horribly mu- 
tilated that their attendants supposed they must 
die. Colonel Powell and Lieutenant White 
spent most of that lonely and dismal night to- 
gether on that gloomy mountain slope, consol- 
ing each other in their painful sufferings; 
beneath them the bloody chasm, the slaughter- 
pen, the crimson trench of destruction, this 
valley of death, where the grass has ceased to 
grow and the flowers refuse to bloom, there the 
sunburnt veteran from the verdure clad steppes 
of the Brazos and the pale faced boy from the 
frozen lakes of Minnesota make one common 
funeral pile." 

Judge J. W. Stevens of Hillsboro, who wa.s 
captured when Colonel Powell's flank was un- 
protected, .says that the enemy came up the 
gorge in his rear, and while he was in the act of 
firing a lieutenant seized his musket, ordering 
him to quit shooting and surrender. 

Col. Campbell Wood of San Saba Coimty, 
who was adjutant of the Fifth Texas in this 
battle, gives some history of the battle. He 
says that after passing through Devil's Den and 



crossing the creek at the foot of Great Round 
Top the Fifth Texas struck a bluff that tliey 
could not climb. Behind this bluff under cover 
of a stone fence the infantry of the enemy 
were stationed. Here the Texan's met with a 
severe repulse and the mortality was very great. 
Colonel Wood thinks Colonel Carter was 
mortally wounded at this bluff. Colonel Wood 
writes that he saw Colonel C. M. Winkler sev- 
eral times in command of the Fourth Texas. 
Once he called his attention to the crimson 
stain of blood on his pants. The Colonel was so 
enthused in his deeds of glory as to be unaware 
that he was wounded in the fleshy part of the 
thigh. 

After a terrible ordeal the Fifth Texas re- 
formed and fell back twice, making three charg- 
es in all in the slaughter pen. The last two 
charges were made without any order from a 
commander, the soldiers all, or some one, say- 
ing, "Let us charge them again." 

Colonel Wood relates that in this last charge on 
the side of the mountain he was wounded in the 
foot; that Judge J. M. Smither, W. B. Camp- 
pell, and J. M. Green assisted him to mount 
General Law's wounded mare, which he rode 
down the mountain side to Dr. W. P. Powell's 
field hospital, where the mare fell. From 
thence he was conveyed by William A. George 
to the division hospital, where his foot was at- 
tended by Dt. Robert Breckinridge, the division 
surgeon. 

Captain W. T. Hill, of Maynard, who was 
severely wounded in this last charge, says he 
saw Major Jeff Rogers waving his sword over 
his head, bravely leading the men to the battle, 
and Boss Campbell being exposed to heavy fire 
refused to take shelter behind a rock when 
ordered by his commanding officer. 

General Law, in his article in the Century, 
speaks of the gallantry of Sergeant Barbee, who 
climbed one of the huge boulders in Devil's 
Den and recklessly fought until he fell severely 
wounded. 

L. A. Daffan, being a private in the Fourth 
Texas, climbed and reclimbed those immense 
rocks in Devil's Den, followed the flag of the 
Fourth Texas on the side of Little Round Toj), 
through the slaughter pen and saw it wave on 
the crest of Great Round Top, where the gal- 
lantry of the Texan.s festooned the mountain 
with garlands of unfading glory. 

In this last charge on Great Round Top, R. 
H. Skinner, now living in Corsicana, was shot 
through the lungs, and Lieutenant Joseph 
Love mortally wounded. 

W. D. Pritchard of Crockett, Tex., who is just- 
ly proud of his record as a member of Hood's 
Brigade, writes that he was sick when this great 



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battle was fought, but his neighbors. Colonel 
A. A. Aldrick and A. D. Oliphant, claim the 
■distinction of having been engaged in that bat- 
tle. Captain Joe Polley, who, his comrades say, 
was like the rest of Hood's Brigade, who were 
to Lee as the Tenth Legion to Caesar, tells us 
that Jack Southerland fought bravely through 
all that battle with the Texans, where their 
valor shed a halo of glory around the name of 
Texas which will shine when the works of art 
that deck that battlefield have faded. 

When the future historian writes the history 
of this battle; when the mother at the fireside 
relates to her children how her ancestors fought 
under the stars and bars at Gettysburg; when 
the poet, enthused with the fire of inspiration, 
writes his stanzas for future generations; when 
the orator on the second day of July, every year 
for centuries, arouses his audiences with fren- 
zied enthusiasm of what transpired at that battle 
they each must tell of our heroic Texans. How 
the plume-crested warrior Work, fearless of 
death with the First Texas, stormed the cannon 
crowned heights of Little Round Top, directly 
in front of him, capturing and retaining the 
only battery taken by the Confederates during 
the battle. 

Posterity must be told how the Fourth Texas 
under the brave and lamented Colonel B. F. 
Carter, charged and recharged over hill and 
large boulders, through chasms, cleft rock and 
thorny bushes in Devil's Den, where the death 
dealing bullet of a determined and patriotic 
foe on their own soil resisted every foot of 
ground; how the Fourth Texas, unheeding the 
demon death in the shape of bullet, shell and 
grape, went to the base of Little Round Top, 
where Colonel Carter fell, driving the enemy 
before them like chaff before the whii-'wiud, 
killing Generals Zook, Vincent and Weed, Col- 
onel Cross and Captain Hazlett, then g. ing up 
the gorge of the mountain and assisting the 
Fifth Texas in the three most desperate charges 
in all history. 

The orator, the poet, the historan, must iell 
how Colonel Powell, obeying General ETond's in- 
structions saw the banner of the Fifth Texas, 
borne by the gallant Fitzgerald and stained 
with the life blood of the fearless IJtilon, go 
direct to Great Round Top, penetrate the gorge, 
drive the enemy from the side of the mountain 
and fight through the slaughter pen up the side 
of Great Round Top, wbere the blood of our 
brave Texans flowed in rivulets down the moun- 
tain side ; where every Texan was a hero ; where 
their gallantry erected an indestructible ceno- 
taph to their memory; where the rising sun ever 
smiles in ecstacy over their ronowncii deeds; 
where the pale moon in her midnight wander- 



ings sheds a halo of glory over the hallowed 
spot ; where the night wind mourns their sad re- 
quiem among the rocks where they fought; 
where their glorious actions have made a page 
in history imperishable as the granite beneath 
their crumbling bones, as lasting as the coming 
and going of the rainbow, or the roaring billows 
of their sea girt home. 



GIVE US PEACE. 

The following verses are reproduced from the 
Galveton News of 18G8 : 

To Rt. Rev. Joseph Ansteadt, one whose zeal 
and fidelity to his faith is cnaracterized by 
Christian benevolence and the happiness and 
prosperity of his adopted people, these lines are 
respectfully inscribed by the author. 

Explanatory: I once saw an old mantle 
clock, having for ornament a figure of a trou- 
badour in a kneeling position, facing the dial 
of the clock and holding a guitar; in front was 
a scroll with musical notes. I copied the notes 
and referred them to a musical friend for ex- 
planation. He told me that in a cathedral in 
Germany was a massive book made of parch- 
ment — it was chained to the altar, and was 
made by a priest a long time ago. The last 
hymn in the book, "Dona Nobis Pacem," was 
sung by all in the closing service. The notes 
on the scroll were the same as in that book. 
How appropriately has the artist addressed 
Time, "Give Us Peace." Age after age, in all 
quarters of the world, all liearts will beat re- 
sponse. 

Out of the incident I have woven the follow- 
ing lines. 

George W. Grover. 

Galveston, Texas, July, 1868. 

Dona Nobis Pacem. 

'Neath the shadow of yon rocky spur. 
Whose receding heights, tip'd with snow 

And sides deep mark'd with the pine and fir, 
While round its base a stream doth flow — 

A stream now so passive, smooth and clear. 
To mirror plain, the distant view, 

The old town and church with graveyard near, 
'Neath the shadow, and sky of blue. 

Not always thus is the stream so fair. 

Nor earth nor sky repose so sweet ; 
Lightnings flash, and blinding storms are there, 

Whose swelling waters in fury meet; 
Nor has that village and church so old 

Withstood the storms of man's fell ire; 
Long, long ago — so the story is told. 

War swept that vale with sword and fire. 



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In that old church, when kneeling in pray'r, 
"Give us peace!" implored every tongue; 

By priest, mothers, sires and children dear, 
""Give us peace!" was the closing hymn sung. 

Peace sent her white mantle o'er that vale. 
Eyes glisten'd — joy and sorrow blend, 

As each soldier told his simple tale 
Of good deeds, or some comrade's end. 

A priest who feared not the deadly fire, 
But sought the dying on the plain, 

And there knelt in supplicating prayer 
For that peace, which to heaven gain, 

That priest, when he heard the prayer they 
sung, 

In that old church by friends so dear. 

While incense floated, from censer swung, 
Yow'd should be sung year after year. 

Give us peace, the burden of his song, 

Sat that priest with plumed pen in hand;_ 
On full size parchment boards, thick and strong. 

With precision each letter plan'd. 
By patient toil, the ritual done; 

Give us peace, the last hymn retained, 
And massive binding, with cross and Son, 

In silver pure their faith proclaimed. 

A hundred years and more, onward fled. 

Since that book, chained to floor of stone, 
Age after age has consigned its dead 

With sacred rites for spirits flown. 
That book still opens with daily prayer. 

Soul after soul — its blessings given. 
When voices full joined by priest and choir, 

"Give us peace," echo saints in heaven. 



PEACE. 



(By Mrs. Emma B. Shindler of 
Nacogdoches.) 

Peace, Peace, the dearest treasure 

Of a country close united. 
Give thy portion without measure, 

While our solemn words are plighted. 

Let no "North" nor "South" be spoken 
With a thought or word of sneer; 

Let the bread of peace be broken 
With a heart and hand sincere. 

Let all bitter feeling buried 

Out of the lives of all that live; 

Never more be resurrected. 

For our hearts must wrongs forgive. 

.While we sing a song of gladness, 

Let thee, white-winged goddess. Peace, 

Every trace of former sadness 

Banish from each comrade's face. 



Tears have bathed the face of sorrow 
For the "Lost Cause" and its heroes; 

Smiles alone must greet the morrew 
Of the past days of our woes. 

Peace, sweet Peace, come in thy beauty, 
Fill our hearts with Love's behest; 

Show to us our friendship's duty 
For the land we all love best. 



MARGARET HADLEY FOSTER. 

(Houston Post, January 15, 1911.) 

One event that occurred in this month (which 
1 feel sure all of you know, so I am telling no 
secrets) was the birth of the great Confederate 
leader, General Robert E. Lee, and for that 
reason we should love January. It was a mag- 
nificent gift to the human race — the child that 
was bom on the 19th of January, 1807, for that 
child grew into manhood to show to the world 
what true manhood meant. He was strong to 
do his duty ; gentle as a woman ; true in all the 
relations of life, as son, husband and father ; a 
true patriot, putting his country first when the 
time came to choose between serving her and 
serving himself ; a firm friend as well as a mag- 
' nanimous enemy, and a pure Christian, serving 
his God humbly, yet bravely before all men, 
yielding obedience to Him as member of His 
church on earth. ^\liat more could be said of 
any man ? 

When the centennial of General Lee's birth- 
day came around January 19, 1907, I was fort- 
unate enough to be in Washington, D. C, the 
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis and we at- 
tended the memorial service held in the grand 
ball room of tlie Willard Hotel, where we heard 
some fine things said of the great soldier. One 
of the speakers, Melville W. Fuller, then chief 
justice of the United States supreme court, 
said the time had come when every American 
should claim his share of the heritage of the 
great man, Robert E. I^ee ! Wasn't that a grand 
thing to say, and Justice Fuller was born in 
New England! Then Mr. Roosevelt, who was 
president of our country at the time, sent a 
note expressing his regret at not being able to 
attend the memorial service for "the greatest 
captain of his age !" Not "one of the greatest," 
but "the greatest !" I have always had a warm 
place in my heart for Mr. Roosevelt since that 
for he knew that his words would be read all 
over the country, vet he had the courage to say 
that! 

General Sir Garnet Wolseley, a distinguished 
officer of the British army, who came over dur- 
ing the Civil War and was with the Confeder- 
ate army in Virginia, also spoke of General Lee 



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as the greatest soldier of his day — of the time in 
which he lived. And today the feeling of re- 
spect for General Lee's pure and spotle.-s char- 
acter has won him a place in the hearts of the 
people of the Northern States, and only one 
man in the senate said a word against putting 
a statue to the great Confederate in the capitol 
at Washington. There it stands with the other 
great men of our country, clothed in the gray 
imiform, simple as the man himself, but rev- 
erenced by all fair-minded people for the glory 
won by the men who wore it. 

I want all of you to read the following ac- 
count of General Lee's surrender and I want 
the boys particularly to notice that General 
Lee was carefully dressed. So many boys think 
it manly to be careless about their clothes. They 
"don't want to be dudes. Oh, no ! They are 
going to be men !" Yet General Lee was the 
manliest man of his day ! Another thing. Boys 
very often think it is womanish to go to church, 
but General Lee went to church, was a member 
of it. I once heard a lady telling of going to 
a service in an Episcopal church in Richmond, 
Va., during the war, where she saw General Lee 
sitting in President Jefferson Davis' pew with 
President Davis, and in the chancel, assisting in 
the service, was General Leonidas Polk, who 
had put aside the service of the church of 
which he was a bishop, to enter the Confederate 
army. Wasn't that a distinguished trio? Yet 
there they were offering their prayers to the 
Father above and joining in the petition sent 
up for their poor country, torn and mangled by 
war. To me it is a beautiful thing to think of, 
and I hope that the boy who reads this will re- 
member it and go to church, following the ex- 
ample set him by those great, manly men. Let 
us all honor them by trying to follow their ex- 
ample, not only in the world, but in the church. 
And let us make January and February our 
favorites among all the months, because they 
gave us the two greatest men of history — George 
Washington and Eobert Lee. 



GEN. ROBERT E. LEE'S SURRENDER. 



Account by Eye Witness of Closing Scene of 
War. 

(From General George H. Sharpe's U. S. A. 
Decoration Day Address. ) 

I remember— and it was recalled to me to- 
night in conversation, when the name of Gen- 
eral Grant came up in the course of conver- 
sation — the wonderful scene that transpired in 
that little place in Virginia on the 6th of April, 
1865. It was late in the afternoon when it be- 



came known that General Lee had sent for 
Grant to surrender to him. 

It was between 2 and 3 o'clock when we met 
in the little room in the house where the sur- 
render of Lee's army took place. I know there 
is a belief that the surrender took place un- 
der an apple tree, where Grant and Lee met 
and exchanged a few words. The surrender 
took place in the left hand room of that old- 
fashioned double house. The house had a large 
piazza, which ran along the full length of it. 
It was one of those ordinary Virginia houses 
with a passageway running through the center 
of it. In that little room where the meeting 
took place sat two young men — one a great- 
grand-son of Chief Justice Marshall of the su- 
preme court, reducing to writing the terms of 
the surrender on behalf of Robert E. Lee; the 
other a man with dusky countenance — a great 
nephew of that celebrated chief — Red Jacket — 
acting imder General Grant. They two were 
reducing to writing the terms of the surrender 
of the army of Northern Virginia to the army 
of the Potomac. Gathered around the room 
were several officers, of whom I was one. 

At some distance apart sat two men ; one 
the most remarkable man of his day and gener- 
ation. The larger and older of the two was 
the most striking in his appearance. His hair 
was white as the driven snow. There was not 
a speck upon his coat; not a spot upon those 
gauntlets that he wore, which were as bright 
and fair as a lady's glove. That was Robert E. 
Lee. The other was Ulysses S. Grant, whose 
appearance contrasted strangely with that of 
Lee ; his boots were nearly covered with mud ; 
one button of his coat — that is, the button- 
hole v.'as not where it should have been, it had 
clearly gone astray, and he wore no sword, while 
Lee was faultlessly and fully equipped. The 
conversation was not rapid by any means. 
Everybody felt the overpowering influence of 
the scene. Everyone present felt they were wit- 
nessing the proceedings between the two chief 
actors in one of the most remarkable transac- 
tions of this Nineteenth century. The words 
that passed between Grant and Lee were few. 
General Grant, endeavoring to apologize for 
not being fully equipped, and noticing the fault- 
less appearance of Lee, while the secretaries 
were busy, said: ''General Lee, I have no 
sword ; I have been riding all night." And Lee 
with that coldness of manner and all the pride, 
almost haughtiness, which after all, became him 
wonderfully well, never made any reply but 
in a cold formal manner bowed. And General 
Grant, in the endeavor to take away the awk- 
wardness of the scene, said : "I don't always 
wear a sword, because a sword is a very in- 



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convenient thing." That was a remarkable 
thing for him to say, considering that he was 
in the presence of one who was about to sur- 
render his sword. Lee only bowed again. An- 
other, trying to relieve the awkwardness of tlie 
occasion, inquired : 

"General Lee, what became of the white 
horse you rode in Mexico? He might not be 
dead yet; he was not so old." General Lee 
bowed coldly, and replied : "I left him at the 
White Plouse on the Pamunkey River, and I 
have not seen him since." There was one mo- 
ment when there was a whispered conversation 
between Grant and Lee which nobody in the 
room heard. 

The surrender took the form of correspond- 
ence. The letters were all signed in due form by 
the chief actors in the presence of each other. 
Finally, when the terms of the surrender had 
all been arranged, and the surrender made, Lee 
arose, cold and proud and bowed to every per- 
son in the room on our side. I remember each 
one of us thought he had been specially bowed 
to. And then he went out and passed down the 
little square in front of the house and bestrode 
that gray horse that carried him all over Vir- 
ginia, and when he had gone away, we learned 
what that wliispered conversation had been 
about. General Grant called his officers about 
him and said : "You can go to the Twenty- 
fourth, and you to the Fifth," and so on, nam- 
ing the corps, "and ask every man who has three 
rations to turn over two of them. Go to the 
commissaries and go to the quarterma'sters," 
etc.; "General Lee's army w on the point of 
starvation!" And 25,000 rations were carried to 
the Army of Northern Virginia. 



a month ; 70 years, $25 a month ; 75 years, $36 
a month. 

It was declared by tlie advocates of the bill 
that 100 veterans are dying every twenty-four 
hours. 



THAT PENSION OUTRAGE 



General Pension Bill Carrying About ?4S,000,000 Passed 

House 212 to 62, Making a Total of Two Hundred 

Million Per Annum. 

Washington, January 10, 1911. — The house 
of representatives today passed the Sulloway 
general pension bi5], which gjrants pensions 
ranging from $12 to $3G a month to all soldiers 
who served ninety days in tlie United States 
army in the war between the States. Tlie bill 
adds about $45,000,000 a year to the pension 
roll. 

Speaker Cannon liimself took the floor at the 
close of the debate and made an earnest plea 
for the passage of tlie hill, 'i'lie bill was passed 
by 212 to 62. 

The general scale of pensions fixed in tlie 
new bill, according to age is as follows: 

Sixty-two years, $15 a month; 65 years, $20 



{Houston Post.) 

The house of representatives at Washington, 
after a debate of forty minutes, passed the 
service pension law, which increases the pen- 
sion cost by $45,000,000 a year and raises the 
total to approximately $200,000,000 per annum. 
The vote was 212 to 62 in favor of the bill. 
There was no roll call. The democratic leader, 
Champ Clark, advocated the passage of the bill, 
presumably upon the ground that to oppose the 
outrageous measure would entail the defeat of 
the democratic party two years hence. 

And thus an opportunity was lost for the 
democratic minority to voice a protest against 
the pension scandal wliich disgraces the gov- 
ernment of the United States. 

It is strange that Mr. Clark could not see 
that if there were any political advantage in the 
bill the republicans must get it. It was a re- 
publican measure from the beginning, and if 
President Taft shows himself weak enough to 
approve it, it will go to the country a.s a repub- 
lican measure reported by the republican 
cliairman of a republican pension committee, 
enacted by a republican congress and approved 
by a republican president. 

Had the democrats opposed the bill and sub- 
stituted for it a bill making just as liberal pro- 
vision for every genuine veteran who needs the 
government's aid, denying any benefits what- 
ever to the fakers, the grafters and the desert- 
ers, and providing for the publication of the 
pen.wion rolls in order that the unworthy in 
every community might be discovered, and then 
sujiported such a bill to a man, they would have 
emphasized to the country a correct attitude 
toward the veterans without increasing the pen- 
sion expenditures a cent. 

But the opportunity was lost, and now we see 
at a time when every consideration of the public 
weal demands retrenchment and economy — 
forty-six years after the close of the war — the 
pension outlay raised to nearly $200,000,000 an- 
nually, and democrats chiming in the disgrace- 
ful effort of the republican party to buy the 
votes of the ex-Union veterans. 

We believe better of the veterans than do 
these men who so flagrantly sacrificed the pub- 
lic revenues to political exigencies. We believe 
every veteran who is honest and patriotic wants 
an honest pension roll. We do not believe the 
man who fought wants the names of poltroons, 



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grafters and fakers on the nation's honor roll, 
nor do we believe any honest veteran wants the 
money of the country thrown away without re- 
striction, upon the hypothesis that the failure 
of congress to do it would mean the loss of his 
vote. 

The discouraging feature of the situation is 
that there is no hope for pension reform even 
by a democratic house. That is clear enough 
when the democratic leader takes his stand for 
this outrageous despoiling of the public. 

At the present time, the only apparent pro- 
tection of the people lies in a veto by Mr. Taft. 
If he shows himself brave enough to veto the 
bill, he will have reached the highest jioint of 
presidential courage. 

What room do they leave the South to "for- 
get and forgive." Only a total of GUO,000 men 
in, all brandies of the Confederate army during 
the war. War has been over forty-sir years and 
today over one milliori Federals are drawing 
pensions for service in helping balance of the 
world smother that little army of 600,000 Con- 
federates ivhich General Sharp's report of "Sur- 
render of General Lee" says "were starving" 
when found at Appomattox. 

What a glorious record of wonderful renown 
the Union continues to pile up for our loved 
Confederacy and its little army of brave de- 
fenders. 



THE SOUTH REFUSES TO FORGET. 



Dedication Day at Galveston. First After 
Close of War. 

The band played "Nearer My God to Thee," 
after which Lieutenant Commander Scott in- 
troduced 

Comrade F. Charles Hume, 

the orator of the occasion, who made the follow- 
ing eloquent and touching address: 

Comrades: If there be a time when the 
blighted fields lie stark and dead, there is also 
a time when they robe themselves in verdure. 
If there be a time for strife and despair and 
bleeding hearts, there is also a time for peace 
and hope and holy memories. 

The winter is grim and cruel. The rains and 
snows combine into floods that gash the face of 
mother earth with ghastly wounds. The winds 
touch with torture even the everlasting moun- 
tains and leave them parched and bare and col- 
orless. The elements contend together in fren- 
zied fury to smite and desolate land and sea. 

But, anon, the spring comes. It works mir- 
acles, even the miracle of resurrection. It trans- 
forms the frozen earth into a paradise of light 



and warmth and glory. It clothes the blasted 
tree with green and gold of leaf and flower, 
whereto steal the zephyrs with perpetual love 
songs. It touches with reviving breath the 
shriveled and bloodless vine, and lo, it becomes 
a living and beauteous thing, reaching out a 
thousand tendrils to the kisses of the sun. It 
whispers to the sleeping rose and is answered by 
instant bloom and fragrance. 

At its bidding the new-born grasses unfold 
their tiny banners to the day, shading hill and 
vale and mountain side — divinely mindful not 
more of the homes of the living than of the 
graves of the dead. In these silent courts it an- 
ticipates even now the service we are here to 
render, and adorns with gifts of love many a 
narrow bed. 

With us, too, the winter of passion has passed, 
and we would lend our poor aid to the sweet 
ministrations of spring. 

Without bitterness to any, we and our people 
yield this hour to memories and blessings of 
those who thought and wrought and fought 
with us in the brave old days. 

No year passes, nor shall any ever pass, 
without recurring tribute to them of praise and 
gratitude and tears — without the minstrel's 
song, now high and proud with martial strains, 
now low and broken with lamentations. And 
why? Because the great soul of 

The South Refuses to Forget 

the heroic, though unavailing, devotion of its 
sons. Because he who keeps the path of duty is 
grander than the throned monarch. Because he 
who gives fortune and life to preserve civil lib- 
erty, and to save his country from the sword and 
its homes from the fagot, has won the guerdon 
of undying remembrance. 

We do not halt to enter upon the argument of 
justification. To ourselves it is not needed ; to 
others it might be unwelcome. We are content 
to leave the issue to the unimpassioned judg- 
ment of those who shall review the record when 
we are dead. 

It is enough to recall here that the men who, 
tmder rival banners and opposing chieftains, 
fought out that war to its tragic close sprang 
from a common parent stock. They alike inher- 
ited the love of liberty. The blood of their sires 
was spent in the same cause on the fields of the 
American revolution. Their kith and kin united 
in 1812 to tame the insolence and repel the ag- 
gressions of a foreign foe. Many of the partici- 
pants had together advanced the American col- 
ors beyond the Eio Grande and gathered the 
honors of battle from the intrepid legions of 
ilexico. 

For each side we may justly say a kind word. 



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Why should tliey have fought? The answer is 
not far to find, however much the question may 
be confused and darkened by words without wis- 
dom. Tliey fought because they were men en- 
dowed with human virtues and embarrassed by 
human infirmities; because, being a free and 
cultured race, they thought and felt, and had 
antagnostic and imperative convictions upon 
many questions inevitably arising out of their 
social and political conditions. 

At variance as to the true interpretation of 
their governmental chart they drifted further 
and further apart as the years passed by, until 
at last they saw their country divided into hos- 
tile sections, each maintaining a political theory 
deemed vital to the perpetuity of their civil in- 
stitutions. Then the hour being ripe the sword 
was drawn. 

Hope and prophecy had said that it could 
never come to this ; that this favored land could 
never be riven by bolts of civil strife. But 
"nature, as green as she looks, rests everywhere 
on dread foundations, were we further down, 
and Pan to whose music the nymphs dance, has 
a cry in him that can drive all men distracted." 

Mutually stung by the sense of irreparable 
outrage and wrong. 

The Souls of Men Become Volcanoes 

of passion bursting into flame. 

The result shows that those who won in that 
war were profoundly in earnest as much so, cer- 
tainly, were those who lost. 

The man who tells you that the masses of the 
South were drawn into that struggle and kept 
to it by ambitious leaders, talks like a child 
and babbles but an idle story. 

There is, perhaps, no parallel in history to the 
unanimity with which the Southern people de- 
voted themselves to their cause. Instead of fol- 
lowing their distinguished men into it, they led 
them; and whatever of glory or of blame his- 
tory shall adjudge to the South it will be as- 
cribed not to one, not to many, but to all. 

If the truth were otherwise, then it were im- 
possible that the Southern people should find 



their ideal of all that is noble in manhood and 
great in war in Robert E. Lee and of all that is 
exalted in patriotism and grand in misfortune 
in Jefferson Davis. 

If the truth were otherwise, then the South- 
ern people would not be worthy the respect of 
their brave adversaries. 

If the men of the South had failed to defend 
their land against invasion and to press resist- 
ance to the last desperate e.xtremity, they would 
not be entitled today to look honor in the face 
and say, "My brother." 

It is true that you have no treasury but that 
of love from which to relieve the wants of the 
living, or embellish the graves of the dead. But 
that sufficeth. 

And whatever betides, your names and the 
names of these your comrades shall not perish 
from the earth. You and tliey have written in 
letters of flame the record that can not fade. 

When the last words had died on the lips of 
the orator and while the vast throng still stood 
uncovered, spellbound by Major Hume's elo- 
quence, the band began in low, sweet tones that 
air which never grows old — "Way Down on Se- 
wanee River." It was a bit of artistic work on 
the part of Prof. Berry, and its effect was mag- 
ical. It was the blending of the art of the musi- 
cian with that of the orator, the one taking up 
the thread where the other left off, and by 
soothing notes — the sweetest of all to Southern 
hearts — bringing the hearer back to earth again 
from whence he had been wafted by the eloquent 
tongue of the orator. 

The ceremonies at the graves having thus 
come to such an appropriate close, the comrades 
dispersed in all directions and began the work 
of decorating the graves. This was continued 
until not a single grave marked with a flag re- 
mained uncovered with beautiful and fragrant 
flowers. 

Then the bugle sounded the recall. The vet- 
erans assembled in front of the cemetery, nnd 
boarding the cars were soon brought back to 
the city. 



BATTLE FLAGS OF HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE. 



DR. JOHN O. SCOTT OF SHERMAN. 



To attempt to narrate all the heroic acts 
which gave the Tcxans immortal fame, is a task 
endless as counting the glittering stars that 
stud the diadem of night, arduous a,s climbing 
the dizzy heights of the snow-clad Alps. 

To tell in worthy language of the patriotic 



and noble women who gave the flags to the Tcx- 
ans, the brave acts, daring and reckless exploits, 
noble deeds and dying words of those who fell 
defending them, is a task beyond the capii^'ty 
of mortal man. We, in our humble manner 
will try, that some of tlie names of the death- 



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less dead, and their patriotic acts may be known 
to the present and coming people. 

In the year 1861, two young ladies and their 
mother made the long and arduous Journey 
from their home in Marshall, Tex., to join their 
father in Virginia, who was commander of tiie 
first Texas regiment. The memory of the 
mother, Mrs. Wigfall, and the young ladies, 
Mit-ses Louise and Fannie Wigfall, is as dear 
to the Texans, as their father was admireu 
by them for his eloquence and loved for hi> 
many virtues. 

The first flag that graced the ranks of the first 
Texas regiment was the handiwork of Jlrs. 
Wigfall. Her daughter, Mrs. Louise Wigfall 
Wright, informs us that the large white star 
on that flag was the special work and pride 
of her mother. This beautiful silken sheet, 
striped with the blue, the white and the red, 
was presented to the regiment at the fair 
grounds, Richmond, Va., in 1861, when the 
dread tocsin of war sounded from Red River 
to the Rio Grande, when the clarion notes of 
the bugle called to arms the "rose and fair 
expectancy" of the state, the first offering of the 
Texan land. 

On this memorable occasion, Jefferson Davis 
made the presentation speech in which it is re- 
lated that he said, "We have seen the Texans 
in battle and we know that one Texan is equal 
to ten ordinary men."" 

This flaming signal of battle, renowned in 
dreadful war and reverenced in serene peace, 
was accepted from the distinguished president 
of the confederacy by Louis T. Wigfall, colonel 
of the first Texas, in behalf of the regiment, 
with the ever-to-be remembered words, "I will 
lead them where the battle's wreck lies the 
thickest and death's brief pang is quickest." 

For conspicuous gallantry at Eltham's Land- 
ing, George Branard was appointed color bearer. 
At Gaine's Mill, Branard was with his regiment 
when it stormed the heights of Powhite Creek. 
The regiment was compelled to cross sharpened 
abatis in order to reach the battery on the 
summit of the fort. 

Branard dexterously threw his flag over the 
abatis, and then crawled under and through 
the works, a shout that almost split the welkin 
greeted the color bearer, as he with a few 
others was seen standing on the summit of the 
works with the silken banner decked with the 
lone white start floating over them. This 
precious offering from queenly hands, was 
bravely borne by its color bearer, Branard, at 
Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Freemans Ford. 
Thorough Fare Gap, Second Manassas, and 
Boonsborough Gap. 

During the journey to Sharpsburg, Branard 
was bare-footed. His feet becoming sore, he 



was ordered to the hospital by Major Dale, 
when the Lone Star flag was committed to the 
care of another. 

At Sharpsburg much heroism was displayed 
by the Texan brigade, "whose achievements," 
says Hood, "liave never been surpassed in the 
history of nations." Jackson complimented 
them "for their almost matchless display of 
daring and desperate valor." Lee has written 
that "the Texans fought grandly and bravely 
and the contest in the com field and lane was 
the hottest ever witnessed on any battlefield." 

In that ever-to-be remembered com field, be- 
ing overwhelmed by numbers, the first Texas to 
their great sorrow lost their flag. When the 
"fallen banner" was discovered by the enemy, 
eight dead and six wounded Texans were found 
around and over H. One of them was im- 
mortalized in death with this beloved standard 
of the Texans wrapped around his lifeless body 
as his winding-sheet. 

Some day the people of this grand Lone Star 
empire state in gratitude for their heroism will 
erect a monument to their memory. Let the 
granite from the laughing waters of the Llano 
he its pedestal and the marble glistening with 
the spray of the Colorado be its shaft. May 
dew-eyed pity engrave on the crowning stone, 
"Here lie embalmed in everlasting glory the 
bodies of eight Texans who met death with the 
lone star flag in their hands." 

S. T. Blessing of Dallas was near, when the 
flag went down. As he fell he saw the foe 
rush to gather the sacred silk from the burial 
pile. W. D. Prichard, a color bearer with the 
battle flag of the first Texas in his hands, was 
shot down almost dead with painful wounds. 
As he lay prostrated at the feet of the foe, 
bleeding and suffering the agony of death, he 
wept bitter tears, not for his wounds, but be- 
cause the "flag by angel hands to valor given," 
all stained with the blood of brave ones, was 
trailing in the dust, a trophy to the foe. 

With reverence and holy love for the memory 
of the heroes, we commit to the youth of Texas 
the sacred names of those who fell crowned with 
glory under the shadow of that lone star flag 
which is now in Washington City — Major Matt 
Dale, Lieut. James C. S. Thompson, Sergt. 
A. A. Congleton, Sergt. Stephen Carpenter, 
Sergt. J. C. Hollingsworth, Wm. Hollingsworth, 
Jacob Frank, William Zimmer, killed; Joha 
Hanson, William Leach, Peter Gillis, Chas. 
Kingsley, Joseph Ashbrook, Austin Jones, 
wounded. 

On the tattered silk can yet be deciphered 
the words, Malvern Hill, Gaines Mill, Seven 
Pines, and Eltham's I^anding. Blood stains are 
still visible. The bul'et-holes and shsll rents 
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battle "where thick and heavy was the work 
of death." 

After the battle, far in advance of any one, 
the dead body of IJeut. 1?. H. Gaston was found 
by the foe. In acknowledgement of his hero- 
ism, he was accorded an honorable burial by 
them with a head mark over his grave ex- 
tolliru his conspicuous gallantry; "Tears and 
love for the gray." 

In the cornfields lie the crumbling bones of 
Texas' beloved heroes, Captain Cotton, Lieuten- 
ants Hoffman, Perry, Runnels, Waterhouse, 
Sandford, Drake, A. H. Baker, color bearer of 
the Fifth, and many others whose names, like 
shining stars on the milky baldric of the skies, 
glitter with perennial glory ; whose heroic 
deeds the cherubim and the seraphim chant to 
rhythmic lays in angelic chows; whose re- 
nowned exploits are carved on a monumental 
phaft made of tlie ruby, the emerald, and the 
sapphire. 

After the battle of Sharpsburg another silk 
flag was presented to the first Texas regiment. 
It was a lone star flag like the one lost at 
Sharpsburg. We are informed by one of the 
color guard, Capt. Dave Bronaugh, that it was 
given to the regiment by Mrs. Davis, Wigfall 
and McKeen and was craped in mourning for 
the heroic dead of the brigade who fell at 
Sharpsburg. 

Would that we were gifted with genius to 
speak in language adequate to the heroism of 
the Texans at Gettysburg who followed the 
flaunting folds of that gay banner, studded 
with a large white star, shining grandly and 
beautifully as the star of the morning. It was 
the star of Texas. It was the star of glory. 
It was the star of victory. 

A little before the commencement of the bat- 
tle, Gen. Hood, the idol of the Texans, with 
the beloved Robertson by his side, rode in front 
of the first Texas regiment. After making 
them a short speech, he arose majestically in 
his stirrups to the full height of his manhood. 
like Mars himself, and in a loud stentorian 
voice, which is still ringing in the ears of his 
invincible soldiery, gave the order, "Fix bay- 
onets, my brave Texans; forward and take 
those heights." 

Col. P. A. Work, commanding the first Texas, 
as heroic as Napoleon at the bridge of Lodi, 
pointing to Little Round Top in the distance, 
bristling with a huge ordnance of war, gave the 
order to his brave comrades : "Follow the Lone 
Star flag to the top of the mountain." On, 
right on. death's danger b^raving, through 
showers of shell, cannister and grape, that Texas 
flag, that lone star banner in the hands of 
George Branard, without waver or halt, stead- 



ily advanced to the mountain top, supported 
by the Texans, who encircled among the na- 
tions of the earth with a halo of immortal fame 
— the name of Texas. 

After one-third of the Texans had been killed 
or wounded, the enemy driven and their battery 
captured, George A. Branard, the brave and dar- 
ing color-bearer of the first Texas regiment, 
hoisted on the topmost summit the streaming 
banner of the victorious Texans. He held the 
post of glory and honor, like Jasper at Moul- 
trie, until he fell almost dead from a shell 
wound on the head. As he lay by his flag his 
color guard, James Willis Watts, James 
Williams, Elias Newsome and David Bronaugh, 
were by his side to preserve the unblemished 
honor of the sacred colors and hoist them afresh, 
high up in the bright firmament above the 
mountain top, that friend and foe from a dis- 
tance could see the lone star standard of our 
Texans shining with the effulgence of heavenly 

glory. 

* * * 

The fourth Texas flag was a gift to the regi- 
ment by Miss Louise Wigfall, now Mrs. Wright 
of Baltimore, president of the Daughters of the 
Confederacy for JMaryland. This historic piefe 
of faded silk, mutilated by ball and shell in 
deadful battle, years ago came into the pos- 
session of a brave .soldier, gifted scholar and 
honorable gentleman, Val C. Giles of Austin, 
who with watchful care has preserved it to the 
present hour. 

Gen. Hood, who was at that time colonel of 
the regiment, received the adored colors from 
the hands of Miss Louise Wigfall. Uiwn the 
spearhead of this precious treasure was printed 
in gilded letters, "Fear not, for I am with 
thee." 

Chaplain Davis writes that when he saw the 
flag on review the last time, October 8, 1863, 
after the battle of Sharpsburg, nine ensigns 
had fallen under it on the field of battle. It 
had the scars of sixty-five balls and some shell 
marks. 

This historic silken standard of the Texans 
was borne in triumph through the battles of 
Eltham's Landing, Seven Pines, Gaines' Farm, 
Freeman's Ford, Second Manassas, Boons- 
brough Gap and Sharpsburg. On the Sth of 
October, 1862, this tattered, torn and mute 
witness of the heroism of the Texans was com- 
mitted to the care of Captain Stephen H. Dar- 
den by the commander of the regiment. Col. 
Ben H. Carter, to be taken to Austin, Tex., 
to be delivered to Gov. Frank Lubbock. In a 
letter to the governor Col. Carter writes the 
following words, which are a lasting memorial 
to the exalted character of that heroic Texan: 



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"More than 500 of our command have fallen 
beneath its folds; an emblem of gallant and 
dauntless courage in the storm of battle, let it 
be preserved sacredly that the remnant of our 
little band may in future days gaze u{5on its 
blood-stained colors, recall to mind the sutTering 
they endured in their country's cause, and their 
children be incited to renewed vigilance in the 
preservation of those liberties for which we con- 
tended." 

There are many dead heroes connected with 
the history of that silken pennon of the fourth 
Texas that make it sublime — subject for the 
poet, the sculptor, the painter, and full of in- 
terest to those who love the recital of noble 
acts and the chivalric deeds of patriots, in de- 
fense of the honor and liberty of their country. 
Lieut. Col. Bradfute Warwick, Col. Ben F. 
Carter, Edward M. Francis, the color bearer, 
and other brave officers and many privates, "the 
untitled heroes of the war." for individual acts 
of heroism deserve more than a passing men- 
tion from the pen of the historian. 

We are informed by soldiers of the regiment 
that at Gaines' mill, or farm, Gen. Hood led 
the fourth Texas after the brave Col. John 
Marshall fell at the head of his regiment, 
crowned with glory. 

We are informed that Ed. Francis was at 
his side with the flag of "the red field and the 
blue starry cross" which he, like Wolfe at 
Quebec, waved in glorious ecstacy on the battle- 
ments of the fort when victory crowned the su- 
preme heroism of the Texans. 

We are informed that some other regiment, 
as they fell back, repulsed under the destructive 
fire of the enemy's batteries, lost their battle 
flag. In the desperate charge of the Texans, 
Col. Warwick being among the foremost, picked 
up the lost bunting of stars and bars and 
hoisted it in gleeful triumph on the captured 
guns of the retreating foe. Amidst the deaf- 
ening shouts of the conquering legions, in the 
joyful moment of success, with the flag in his 
grasp, bleeding from a death wound, like Det- 
siax in the supreme hour of victory at Marengo, 
he nobly fell to earth shrouded in glory's pall. 
At the battle of Second Manassas, after Ed. 
Francis was wounded, Col. William H. Sellers 
of Hood's stafp, one of Texas' beloved heroes, 
with the Louise Wigfall flag of the fourth 
Texas in his hands, the words emblazoned on 
it, "Fear not, for I am with thee,'' shining 
like glittering diamonds on the diadem of etern- 
ity, side by side with Col. Carter, Townsend, 
Martin, Winkler, Hunter, Darden, Barziza, Bas- 
sett, Bilingsly and other brave Texans, hoisted 
that victorious banner over a United States bat- 
tery, where, like the Spartan band at There- 



mopylae, none were left to tell the tale of the 
heroism of their comrades. 

The lieutenant commanding, bleeding from 
many wounds, fired the last shot. The Texans, 
admiring his heroic action, withheld their fire 
until he attempted again to crawl up to a can- 
non to make one more desperate effort in the 
work of death. 

Col. Carter sent the body of the brave federal 
artillery officer with sword, watch and pocket 
book inside the federal lines under a flag of 
truce — "Love and tears for the blue." For this 
act of courtesy to a brave and fallen foe Col. 
Carter was soothed in his dying hours by the 
dead officer's brother after he was captured at 
Gettysburg. 

This battle, planned by Lee under the 
strategic eye of Stonewall Jackson, was a grand 
victory to the confederacy. Hood obeyed Long- 
street's order like Marshall Key at Fried- 
land. When all seemed lost he was there in 
time with his Texans to rush headlong like a 
thunderbolt and break the enemy's center. It 
was a dear bought victory to the Texans, for it 
scattered the weeds of mourning all over the 
State for the loss of its first born. Clustered 
around the blood-stained body of the heroic 
L^pton, "where the braviest love to die," rest 
crowned with the palm of victory, in the arms of 
death, on this "fame's eternal camping ground," 
the brave Thomas, Fawcett, Herndon, Johnson, 
Dean, Martin and hundreds of others, whose 
names, wreathed around in glory, all Texans 
hold sacred. 

Here the gaily attired zouave from the heights 
of the Hudson and the blue-trousered veteran 
of New England, lay cold in the embrace of 
death beside the gray-clad Texan from the ver- 
dure-clad fields of the Brazos or the flowery 
steppes of the Colorado. 

On this field of fame, renowned in song and 
story for all time to come, beneath the laurel 
ever rejoicing to deck the victor's brow, the 
blushing wild rose with the morning's dew 
glistening on its fragrant petals, blooming over 
their almost hidden graves, \vhispers to the 
passer-by, "Forget me not, forget me not." 
When this, tattered ball-rent silken memorial of 
the glorious deeds of the Texans, the gift of 
a lovely Texan girl was sent home, Colonel Car- 
ter has written that "our general," meaning 
Hood, "gave us another flag." 

Later on at Gettysburg this new ensign of 
liberty waved over brave men performing deeds 
of valor unparalleled in the history of the 
world. Edward M. Francis, with martial step 
advancing "on, on, no fear, no halt," carried 
that blue-crossed bunting of the fourth Texas — 
that new device of chivalry, lit with its dazzling 
stars from glory's land — in the dreadful storm 



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of battle, through sheet* of fire and rain of shot 
and shell in Devil's Den. to the iron mantled 
heights of Great Round Top, where the laurel- 
wreathed name of Texas is carved in im- 
perishable letters on the granite rock of the 
mountain : where the glor^- of our dead heroes 
is painted in unfading grandeur on the escut- 
cheon of fame; where the morning stars with 
heavenly music chant their last reveille and the 
winds of the evening sing their requiem ; where 
the skies above are grandly and gorgeously 
decked with panoramic scenes of deeds of un- 
paralleled heroism of those who fought under 
the stars and bars, the idol emblem of the 
Southland. 

Here in this furious tornado of battle, where 
death held high carnival and huge destruction 
with giant strides shook the earth beneath, and 
all creation trembled for the work of the demon 
war. in sight of the star-crossed emblem of 
liberty, glory, patriotism and honor which 
Hood, his general, had given him. Colonel Ben 
F. Carter at the head of his column "on to 
death and glory dashing."" like the torn and 
mangled Marshal Lannes at Lobau was hurled 
in "Tie crimson trench of death, no more to 
rise in arms or shine in war again." 

Ed. Francis, with his blue and crimson 
star-glittering standard, which had been the 
guide of renowned warriors to victory in ths 
awful shock of battle, was reserved by the 
hand of providence for a fate not less glorious. 
On Sunday, September 20, at Chickamauga, 
when our Tesans were victorious and driv- 
ing the enemy at Snodgrass Hill, Edward M. 
Francis ran ahead of his regiment out of sight 
among the trees. On that "field of death and 
slaughter,"' followed by his faithftil guard, he 
proudly unfurled his radiant colors by the rail 
breastworks, cr^-ing in a loud voic-e so as to 
be heard by friend and foe, "TJally, Texans. 
Rally." His last words were "Here I die." 
Amid perils, dread, appalling, encircled with 
a halo of dazzling glory he sunk to the ground, 
enshrouded with the bloodstained banner of the 
"hrave Texans,"' as Lee called them. 

After Francis was killed two other ensigns, 
William Daugherty and John Barry, shining 
with glorv- like the ethereal seraphim on the 
walls of paradise, were stricken down by his 
side while grasping "the star-flowery banner"' of 
the Texans, streaming with a dazzling blaze of 
glory. A fourth ensign, Fred Makeig, from the 
bleedins bodies of the dving heroes, raised the 
weeping colors, rejoicing in glorious triumph, 
until the Texans. like a hurricane blast, "came 
dashing on to victorv- or death." 

The flags of the fifth Texas have so many 
acts of brave men connected with them that we 
with great difBdence in this address speak of 



them. We feel the need of utterance sufficient 
to describe all the acts of gallantry, the daring 
reckless bravery, the supreme courage, exhibited 
under these silken banners which the fair ones 
of Texas gave to our heroes. 

The first standard that floated over these Tex- 
ans, every one of whom was a gentleman, 
scholar and natural born soldier was presented 
to the regiment by Miss Fannie Wigfall, now 
Mrs. Tavlor of Maryland. Col. Archer made 
the speech of acc-eptanc-e, denominating it as the 
flag of "the red field and blue starry cross," 
which poetic description of the flag we love 
so well, the fallen banner of the Southland, 
with his name shrouded with chivalry, glory 
and honor, will ring across the centuries, sung 
with rhythmic lays, read in romance and 
spoken in outbursts of thrilling eloquence." 

This blazing device of freedom in the hands 
of its custodian, George Onderdonk, waved in 
triumph over the heights of Gaines" farm tmtil, 
all gashed and scarred with bloody wounds, he 
transferred the blessed banner to another of the 
brave Texans, as they were styled by Lee and 
his entire army. This silken standard, lit with 
glittering stars on the azure blue, was the Tex- 
ans" guiding star to grand achievements at El- 
tham"s Landing and the Seven Pines. The 
whereabouts of this emblem of love, chivalry 
and liberty so dear to the Texans. after many 
months of search, we are unable to tell. Per- 
haps it may be a chained captive in some prison 
vault, or pet idol of some comrade, or trophy 
of its captor, and like the long lost ship it may 
return to its moorinp after the storm has pass- 
ed, or, like the wandering child of doting par- 
ents, it may some day come back to the caress- 
ing arms of its mother, the State of Texas. 

There is another flag of the fifth Texas drap- 
ed in mourning, for the brave Upton, Color 
Bearer Onderdonk and eight other heroes who 
perished under its crimson folds. It is a Lone 
Star flag, one that was reviewed by Longstreet 
and Hood after the Sharpsburg fight, October 
8, 1863. 

Chaplain Davis, in his history of the brigade 
has written : "From the manly step of its en- 
sign, Fitzgerald, one c-ould see he was proud of 
his colors, pierced with ninetv--eight balls, three 
cannister shot and a piece of shell, passing 
through fire and blood and craped with the glor- 
ious memory of nine ensigns."" This flag was 
made tmder the direction of the officers of the 
regiment, all of whom with the privates wished 
to go to battle tmder a Lone Star flag, which 
was contrary to the order of Generals Long- 
street and Hood. 

Adjutant Campbell Wood and Captain John 
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ed in having the flag carried by the regiment 
in the second battle of Manassas, where it won 
so much distinction. 

At this battle the Texans came up to Jack- 
son's relief at double quick. The famous Fifth 
New York Zouaves were opposing the Fifth 
Texas. While they in battle array were in front 
of the fearless Zouaves making ready for the 
onset, Captain John Smith Cleveland grandly 
standing out in front of the regiment, like the 
towering Ajax, pointing to the beautiful Lone 
Star flag waving majestically over the Texans, 
said, "Cling to it, boys, as you would to your 
sweethearts." 

At one time when the fate of the battle was 
wavering, the color bearer, Onderdonk, being 
wounded and eight other color guards shot down 
with the flag in their hands, the gallant Upton, 
reckless of his life, seized the flag with his left 
hand, and with his drawn saber in his right ex- 
claimed in a loud voice, "Come on, boys, fol- 
low me." With Bryan, Farmer, Eoberdeau, Mc- 
Bride, Hill, Baber, Cleveland, Turner and 
many others by his side, he led the regiment to 
glory and victory. 'Wlien the Fifth Xew York 
Zouaves were about being demolished, 243 killed 
on the spot, and victory was certain, the brave 
Upton, the hero of this battle, with this flag 
in his hand, pierced with a shot over his right 
eye, fell lifeless from his horse in the arms of 
his brave Adjutant, Campbell Wood. 

Hunt Terrell, J. S. Miller, Leroy Mitchell 
were among the color guard who fell. When one 
of the color guard, J. K. P. Harris, a boy 15 
years old, was wounded, his expiring words 
were, "I am shot through but I shall carry this 
flag until I die." Another ball from the enemy 
made his name and dying words "go sounding 
down the ages" imperishable on the scroll of 
fame. October 8, 1863, Col. J. B. Robertson 
sent this same Lone Star flag home to F. R. 
Lubbock, governor of Texas, with a letter from 
which we quote the following words from that 
great and good man : 

"In sending this flag to your excellency, in 
addition to the evidence it bears, I will be ex- 
cused for adding my testimony to the gallantry, 
bravery and chivalrous bearing of the regiment 
over which this flag has floated in the san- 
guinary battles of Virginia. 

"In the name and in behalf of the Fifth 
regiment I send this flag to you to be deposit- 
ed in the archives of the State with the hope 
that as the sight of it amidst the battle's furious 
storm has cheered and nerved us to bear it on 
to victory, so a view of it may nerve those who 
come after us to sustain with the same unfal- 
tering devotion the liberty it symbolizes. 

"Thou Lone Star flag, the pride and glory 



of the Texans, emblem of liberty to the op- 
pressed, an asylum to the exile and comfort to 
the homeless ; bright star planted on the azure 
blue beside the white and the red symbols of 
purity and love, in smiling peace, in bloody 
war, be ever first thou noble star." 

Thou Lone Star flag, thou wert the sacred 
device of Houston, Travis, Fannin, Crockett, 
Sidney, Sherman, Johnston, Hood and a host 
of others in horrid battle and glorious death. 
Blessed flag of the Fifth Texas, we leave thee 
now to the keeping of thy patriotic custodian, 
William H. George whom Hood has declared 
to be the rightful owner. 

A gifted and lovely lady of Houston, Mrs. 
Maud J. Young, presented the Fifth Texans a 
beautiful silk flag. At that great and grand bat- 
tle of Gettysburg it had the honor to be desig- 
nated by General Hood in his order to Colonel 
Powell as the flag to lead the Texans to the 
Round Tops, which loomed up in the distance 
in magnificent grandeur, "standing in serried 
rugged defiance, great round top with little 
round top leaning against it." 

In this battle the gallant Fitzgerald was the 
hero who bore that silken banner, dear to all 
Texans, which should be sacredly preserved as 
it was the guiding star that lit the pathway of 
the Fifth Texas to the slaughter pen between 
the mountains, where every Texan was a hero, 
where the gallantry of the Texans encircled the 
mountains with festoons of unfading renown, 
where Colonel Powell at the lead with the Tex- 
ans, like Jeff Davis at Beuna Vista, made 
those three desperate charges where the bones 
of one-third of the brave Texans lie embalmed 
in glory. Wliere the mountain dells still echo 
the words of the private soldier from the bleed- 
ing ranks of the Texans, "Let us charge them 
again." At Chickamauga this same Mrs. Young 
flag smiling with delight over the renowned 
deeds of the Texans was seen flaunting in the 
breeze like a thing of triumphant joy, when 
Hood with his Texans like Napoleon with the 
old guard at Austerlitz, broke the center, and 
the shouts of the Texans rent the welkin with 
huzzas of victory. 

With bleeding wounds, the dauntless color 
bearer, William Hobson Clark, hoisted the ball- 
rent silk on the ramparts of the fleeing foe. At 
the terrible and destructive battle of the Wil- 
derness where the pale flag of death and de- 
spair waved from every pine tree, this blazing 
torch of liberty, this fiery beacon to the field 
of immortal fame, this loved banner of the Tex- 
ans, saluted the skies and decorated their inner 
vaults with triumphant glory. 

After an all night's march, as the rising sun 
crimsoned the eastern skies with rosy hues. 



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with flying banners and the soul-stirring music 
of the "Bonny Blue Flag," the Texans under 
General Gregg, all jubilant, and ready for bat- 
tle, were met by General Lee with the words, 
"My brave Texans, I know you can and will 
drive these people back; I can always depend 
on you in tight places; follow me, I will lead 
you"." 

Then it was that Martin, Harding, Watts, 
Mahle, Eandall and others surrounding him, 
declared that the flags of the Texans knew not 
defeat; that they had never been hurled to the 
dust except to rise again; that if the enemy 
were not defeated like the 188 of the Alamo, 
there would be none of them left to tell the 
story of death; that war is our business, fight- 
ing our pastime, death or victory our battle- 
cry, the crown of laurel the gift to the victor, 
our guerdon, our glory; that if he would gn 
back they Avould drive the enemy. "General 
Lee to the rear," was the shout of the entire 
troop of Texans. Clark, the color bearer of the 
Fifth Texas, was seriously wounded and many 
ensigns were wafted to glory with the radiant 
colors of the Fifth Texas. 

The color bearer of the Fourth Texas, Lane 
Wilson, and Ensign Bro-mi and Durfee met 
glory and death witli garlands of victory and 
eternal renown under the blue cross of St. An- 
drew's glittering with radiant stars. The Tex- 
ans did wliat they promised ; fighting througli 
fire and blood, they halted the exultant victors 
and drove them into their works, thus saving 
Lee's army from defeat. When Lee saw the 
blood-stained banners of the brave Texans. 
"decked in sad triumph for one-lialf of their 
number lying prostrate among the pines," then 
it was that Capt. W. E. Barry lying wounded 
from many wounds, near a battery, heard Lee 
say: "It is all sunshine now; the brave Texans 
have repulsed the enemy and cut them in two." 



CAPTAIN W. T. HILL, 

Company D, Fifth Regiment, Hood's 
Texas Brigade. 

Captain Wm. T. Hill, Matnabd, Texas, 
was one of the noted officers of Hood's Texaa 
Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. He was 
born Aug. 16, 1837, near Selma, Alabama, and 
removed with his parents to Walker county, 
Texas, when quite a child. He attended Austin 
College, at Huntsville, Texas, and graduated in 
class of 1858. Early in 1861 he entered the 
service of the Confederate States of America, 
as First Lieutenant of Company D, Fifth Regi- 
ment, Hood's Texas Brigade, and went direct 
to scat of war in Virginia. His Captain, R. M. 
Powell, soon became a field officer of the regi- 
ment. Hill thereby becoming Captain of the 
company. 

Captain W. T. Hill remained faithfully at 
Ills post of duty throughout entire war. He 
was badly wounded at Gettysburg and the Wil- 
derness, but each time soon returned to re- 
sume command of company or regiment as oc- 
casion demanded. He was in command of 
Fifth Texas Regiment when surrender came at 
Appomattox. In all the walks of life, whether 
military or civil. Captain Hill has ever proven 
an able officer, brave soldier, unexcelled citi- 
zen and sterling Christian gentleman. 

Outside of serving in the State legislature, 
Captain Hill has avoided all political prefer- 
ments and chose the more congenial pursuit 
of managing his own business — of which he 
has always had a sufficiency. Captain Hill is 
one of the honorable ex-presidents of Hood's 
Texas Brigade Association, and was one of the 
most zealous and active members of Hood's 
Texas Brigade Monument Committee, witness- 
ing its dedication at Austin, Texas, Oct. 27, 
1910. 



GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY 

Those Who Were Killed in Battle and Died from Wounds Received in Battle. Those Who 
Died During or Since the War and Those Who Arc Thought to Be Living. 



Herewith is presented a complete list of the 
general officers of the Confederate Army, giv- 
ing (1) the list of those who were killed in bat- 
tle, (2) the list of those who died from wounds 
received in battle, (3) the list of those who 
died during or since the war, and (4) the list 
of those presumed to be living. 

But one Lieutenant General is living, Simon 



Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky, and not one of 
the six men who bore the full title of General 
is alive. Each of the lists here given is ar- 
ranged in alphabetical order. 

This simple catalogue of names recalls the 
history of one of the greatest armies that was 
ever organized, great because of the soldiers 
who composed it and great because of these 




CAPT. W. T. HILL, MAYNARD, TEXAS 

Company D., Fifth Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, 

Member Hood's Texas Brigade Monument Committee. Ex-President 

Hood's Texas Brigade Association. Commanded Fifth 

Texas Regiment at Appomattox. 



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men who captained it. It may well be called 
a roll of honor. 

The list follows:— 

KILLED IN BATTLE. 

Adams, John, Tennessee, brigadier general, 
killed at Franklin, November 30, 1864. 

Armistead, Louis M., Virginia, brigadier 
general, killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 

Ashby, Turner, Virginia, brigadier general, 
killed at Harrisonburg, Va., June 2, 1862. 

Barksdale, William, Mississippi, brigadier 
general, killed at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. 

Barteau, Francis S., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Bull Run, July 21, 1861. 

Bee, Barnard E., South Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at Bull Run, July 21, 1861. 

Branch, L. O'B., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at Sharpsburg, September 17, 
1862. 

Carter, John C, Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Franklin, November 30, 1864. 

Chambliss, J. R., Jr., Virginia, brigadier 
general, killed near Richmond, August 16, 
1864. 

Cleburne, Patrick R., Arkansas, major gen- 
eral, killed at Franklin, November 30, 1864. 

Cobb, Thomas R. R., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, 
1862. 

Bearing, James, Virginia, brigadier general, 
killed at High Bridge, Va., April 6, 186.5. 

Deshler, James, Alabama, brigadier general, 
killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. 

Doles, George, Georgia, brigadier general, 
killed at Bethesda Church, Va., May 30, 1864. 

Dunavant, John, South Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at Vaughn Road, Va., October 
1, 1864. 

Garland, Samuel, Jr., Virginia, killed at 
South Mountain, Va., September 14, 1864. 

Garnett, Richard A., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 

Garnett, Robert Selden, Virginia, brigadier 
general, killed at Rich Mountain or Craddock's 
Ford, July 13, 1861. 

Girardey, J. B., Georgia, brigadier general, 
killed at Petersburg, August, 1864. 

Gist, S. R., South Carolina, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Franklin, November 30, 1864. 

Gladden, Adley H., Louisiana, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Shiloh, April 6, 1862. 

Godwin, A. C, North Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at Winchester, September 29, 
1864. 

Gordon, James B., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at Yellow Tavern, 1864. 

Gracie, Archibald, Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Petersburg, December 2, 1864. 



Granberry, Hiram B., Texas, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Franklin, November 30, 1864. 

Green, Martin E., Missouri, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Vicksburg, Miss., June 27, 1863. 

Green, Thomas, Texas, brigadier general, 
killed at Bayou Pierre, La., April 12, 1864. 

Gregg, Maxey, South Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, 
1862. 

Gregg, John, Texas, brigadier general, killed 
at Darbytown, August, 1864. 

Griffith, Richard, Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Savage Lion, June 29, 1862. 

Hanson, Roger W., Kentucky, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Murfreesboro, December 31, 1862. 

Hatton, Robert, Tennessee, brigadier general, 
killed at Seven Pines, May 31, 1862. 

Helm, B. H., Kentucky, brigadier general, 
killed at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. 

Hill, Ambrose P., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Petersburg, April, 1865. 

Jenkins, Micah, South Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. 

Jenkins, A. G., Virginia, brigadier general, 
killed at Cloyd's Mountain, Va., May 9, 1864. 

Jolmston, Albert Sidney, Texas, general, 
killed at Shiloh, April 6, 1862. 

Jones, John M., Virginia, brigadier general, 
killed at the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. 

Jones, William E., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Piedmont, June 5, 1864. 

Kelly, J. A., Alabama, brigadier general, 
killed near Franklin, Tenn., September 2, 1864. 

Little, Henry, Missouri, brigadier general, 
killed at luka, Miss., September 19, 1862. 

McCulloch, Ben, Texas, brigadier general, 
killed at Elk Horn, March 7, 1862. 

Mcintosh, James, Florida, brigadier general, 
killed at Pea Ridge, May 7, 1862. 

Morgan, John H., Kentucky, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Greenville, Tenn., September 4, 
1864. 

Mouton, Alfred, Louisiana, brigadier gener- 
al., killed at Mansfield, La., April 9, 1864. 

Paxton, E. F., Virginia, brigadier general, 
killed at Chancellorville, May 3, 1863. 

Pegram, John, Virginia, killed at Hatchers 
Run, February 5, 1865. 

Perrin, Abner M., South Carolina, briga- 
dier general, killed at Spottsylvania, May 12, 
1864. 

PoUc, Leonidas, Louisiana, lieutenant gen- 
eral, killed at Pine Mountain, Ga., June 14, 
1864. 

Randall, Horace, Texas, brigadier general, 
killed at Jenkins' Run, Ark., April 30, 1864. 

Raines, James E., Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Murfreesboro, December 31, 
1862. 



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Ramseur, Stephen D., North Carolina, Ma- 
jor general, killed at Winchester, October 19, 
1864. 

Eodes, Robert E., Alabama, major general, 
killed at Winchester, September 19, 1864. 

Saunders, J. C. C, Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Petersburg, August 21, 1864. 

Slack, W. Y., Missouri, brigadier general, 
killed at Pea Ridge, March 6, 1862. 

Smith, Preston, Tennessee, brigadier gener- 
al, killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. 

Starke, W. E., Louisiana, brigadier general, 
killed at Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862. 

Stevens, C. H., South Carolina, brigadier 
general, killed at Atlanta, July 27, 1864. 

Terrell. James B., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at the Wilderness, May 31, 1864. 

Tilghman, Lloyd, Kentucky, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Baker's Creek, Miss., May 16, 
1863. 

Tracy, Edward D., Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed near Port Gibson, Miss., Mav 1, 
1863. 

Tyler, R. C, Tennessee, brigadier general, 
killed at Fort Tyler, Ga., near West Point, 
April 16, 1865, seven days after the surrender 
at Appomattox. 

Walker, U. H. T., Georgia, brigadier general, 
killed near Atlanta, July 22, 1864. 

Willis, Edward, Georgia, brigadier general, 
killed at Mechancsville, May 31, 1864. 

Winder, Charles S., Maryland, brigadier gen- 
eral, killed at Cedar Run,"Augu.st 9, 1862. 

Zollicoffer, Felix R., Tennessee, brigadier 
general, killed at Mill Spring, or Fishing 
Creek, Ky., January 19, 1862. 

DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN BATTLE. 

Anderson, George B., North Carolina, brig- 
adier general, died from wounds received at 
Sharpsljurg, October 16, 1862. 

Benton, Samuel, Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral, died of wounds received at Atlanta, July 
28, 1864. 

Daniel, Junius, North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died from wounds received at Spotts- 
ylvania, May 22, 1864. 

Elliott, Stephen, Jr., South Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died of wound received at Peters- 
burg, May 21, 1864. 

Jackson, (Stonewall) Thomas J., Virginia, 
lieutenant general, died of wounds received at 
Chanccllorsville, May 16, 1863. 

Pender, William D., North Carolina, major 
general, died of wounds received at Gettys- 
burg, July 18, 1863. 

Pettigrew, James J., North Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died of wounds received at Fall- 
ing Waters, July 14, 1863. 



Posey, Carnot, Mississippi, brigadier general, 
died of wounds received at Bristow Station, 
October 14, 1865. 

Semmes, Paul J., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died of wounds received at Gettysburg, 
July 10, 1863. 

Stafford, George A., Louisiana, died of 
wounds received at the Wilderness, May, 1864. 

Stuart, J. E. B., Virginia, major general, 
died of wounds received at Yellow Tavern, 
May 12, 1864. 

DIED DURING OR SINCE THE WAR. 

Adams, Daniel W., Louisiana, died in New 
Orleans, June 14, 1872 ; brigadier general. 

Allen, Henry W., Louisiana, died in the City 
of Mexico April 22, 1866, brigadier general. 

Allen, W. W., Alabama, died at Sheffield, 
Ala., November 21, 1894, brigadier general. 

Anderson, George T., Georgia, died at An- 
niston, Ala., April 4, 1901, brigadier general. 

Anderson, Patton, Florida, died in Memphis, 
Tenn., summer of 1873, major general. 

Anderson, Joseph R., Virginia, died at Isle 
of Shoals, N. H., September 7, 1892, brigadier 
general, 

Anderson, Richard H., South Carolina, died 
June 26, 1879, lieutenant general. 

Anderson, Robert H., Georgia, died Febru- 
ary 8, 1888, brigadier general. 

Anderson, Samuel R., Tennessee, died at 
Nashville, Tenn., January 2, 1863, brigadier 
general. 

Archer, James J., Maryland, died October 
24, 1864, brigadier general. 

Baker, Alpheus, Alabama, died in Louisville, 
Ky., October 7, 1891, brigadier general. 

Baldwin, William E., Mississippi, died Feb- 
ruary 19, 1864, brigadier general. 

Barringer, Eufus, North Carolina, died at 
Charlotte, N. C, February 3, 1895. 

Barton, Seth H., Virginia, died at Freder- 
icksburg, Va., April 11, 1900, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Barry, John D., North Carolina, died , 

brigadier general. 

Beale, Richard L. T., Virginia, died in West- 
moreland County, Virginia, April 19, 1893, 
brigadier general. 

Beall, W. N. R., Arkansas, died at McMinn- 
ville, Tenn., July 26, 1883, brigadier general. 

Beaureguard, P. G. T., Louisiana, died in 
New Orleans February 20, 1893, general. 

Bee, Hamilton P., Texas, died at San An- 
tonio, Texas, October 3, 1897, brigadier gener- 
al,. 

Bell, TjTee H., Tennessee, died at New Or- 
leans August 3, 1902, brigadier general. 



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Benning, Henry L., Georgia, died , 

brigadier general. 

Blanchard, A. G., Louisiana, died at New Or- 
leans June 25, 1891, brigadier general. 

Bonham, Hilledge, South Carolina, died at 
White Sulphur Springs, N. C, August 27, 
1890, brigadier general. 

Bowen, John S., Missouri, died July 16, 
1863, brigadier general. 

Bragg, Braxton, Louisiana, died at Galves- 
ton, Texas, September 27, 1876, general. 

Brandon, LT. L., Mississippi, died in Wilkin- 
son County, Mississippi, January 8, 1890, brig- 
adier general. 

Brantley, M. F., Mississippi, died at Winona, 
Miss., November 2, 1870, brigadier general. 

Bratton, John, South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died at Winn-sboro, S. C, February, 
1898. 

Breckinridge, John C, Kentucky, major gen- 
eral, died at Lexington, Ky., 1875. 

BerOiard, Theodore W., Florida, brigadier 
general, died at Tallahassee, June 20, 1882. 

Brown, John C, Tennessee, major general, 
died at Boiling Spring, Tenn., August 17, 
1889. 

Bryan, Goode, Georgia. 

Buford, A., Kentucky, brigadier general, 
died June 9, 1884. 

Carroll, William H., Tennessee, brigadier 
general. 

Chalmers, James E. Mississippi, brigadier 
general, died at Memphis. April 9, 1898. 

Campbell, Alexander W., Tennessee, briga- 
dier general, died at Jackson, Tenn., June 14, 
1893. 

Canty, James, Alabama, brigadier general,, 

Cheatham, B. T., Tennessee, major general, 
died at Nashville, September 4, 1886. 

Chesnut, James, South Carolina, brigadier 
general died February 1, 1885. 

Chilton, E. H., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died February 18, 1879, Columbus, Ga. 

Clark, Charles, Mississippi, brigadier gener- 
al, died in Mississippi, December, 1879. 

Clark, John B., Jr., Missouri, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Washington. D. C, September 7, 
1903. 

Clavton, H. D., Alabama, major general, 
died at Tuscaloosa, Ala., October 13, 1889. 

Clingman, Thomas S., North Carolina, brig- 
adier general, died at Morganton, N. C, No- 
vember 30, 1897. 

Cobb, Howell, Georgia, major general, died 
in New York City, October 9, 1868. 

Cocke, Phillip St. George, Virginia, briga- 
dier general, died in Fluvanna County, Vir- 
ginia, December 21, 1861. 



Colquitt, A. H., Georgia, brigadier general, 
died in Washington, D. C, March 26, 1894. 

Colston, E. E., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died near Eichmond, July 29, 1896. 

Conner, James, South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died in Eichmond, June 26, 1883. 

Cook, Phillip, Georgia, brigadlier gctneral, 
died at Atlanta, May 22, 1894. 

Cooke, John E., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died in Eichmond, April 9, 1891. 

Cooper, Douglas H.. Mississippi, brigadier 
general, died in Indian Territory, 1867. 

Cooper, Samuel, Virginia, general, died in 
Alexandria County, Virginia, December 3, 
1876. 

Corse, M. D., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died at Alexandria, February 11, 1895. 

Crittenden, George B., Kentucky, major 
general, died in Danville, Ky., November 27, 
1880. 

Davis, Joseph E., Mississippi, brigadier 
general, died at Biloxi, Miss., September 15, 
1896. 

Davis, M. G. M., Florida, brigadier general, 
died at Alexandria, Va., March 12, 1898. 

Deas, Zach C, Alabama, brigadier general, 
died in New York City, March, 1882. 

Debray, Xavier B., Texas, brigadier general, 
died in Austin, Texas, January 6, 1895. 

Dibrell, George G., Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Sparta, Tenn., May 9, 1888. 

Dockery, T. P., Arkansas, brigadier gereral, 
died in New York City, February 28, 1898. 

Donelson, Daniel S., Tennessee, major gr-n- 
eral, died at Knoxville, April 17, 1863. 

Drayton, Thomas F., South Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died at Florence, S. C, February 
18, 1891. 

Dubose, Dudley M., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died 1883. 

Duncan, Johnson K., Louisiana, brigadier 
general, died in Knoxville, December 18, 1862. 

Early, Jubal A., Virginia, lieutenant gen- 
eral, died at Lynchburg, Va., March 2, 1894. 

Echols, John, Virginia, brigadier general 
died at Staunton, Va., May 24, 1898. 

Ector, M. D., Texas, brigadier general, died 
at Tyler, Texas, October 29, 1879. 

Elzev, Arnold, Maryland, major general, died 
in Baltimore, February 21, 1871. 

Evans, N. P., South Carolina, brigadier gen- 
eral, died November 30, 1868. 

Ewell, Eichard S., Virginia, lieutenant gen- 
eral, died at Spring Hill, Tenn., January 25, 
1872. 

Fagan, James F., Arkansas, major general, 
died . 

Featherstone, K. S., Mississippi, brigadier 



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general, died at Holly Springs, Miss., May 29, 
1891. 

Fields, Charles W., Kentucky, major general, 
died in Washington City, April 9, 1892. 

Finogan, Joseph, Florida, brigadier general, 
died at Sanford, Fia., October 29, 1885. 

Floyd, John B., Virginia, brigadier gene-^al, 
died August 26, 1863. 

Forney, John H., Alabama, major general, 
died at Jacksonville, Ala., September 13, 1902. 

Forney, William H., Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Jacksonville, Ala., Januarv 16, 
1894. 

Forrest, Nathan H., Tennessee, lieutenant 
general, died at Memphis, October 29, 18~7. 

Fry D. B., Alabama, brigadier general, died 
in Richmond, February 5, 1891. 

Foost, Daniel M., Missouri, brigadier gener- 
al, died at St. Louis, October 30, 1900. 

Gantt, E. W., Arkansas, brigadier general, 

died . 

Gardner, Franklin, Louisiana, brigadier gen- 
eral, Vermillionville, La., April 29, 1873. 

Gardner, William M., Georgia, brigadier 
general, died in Memphis, June 16, 1904. 

Gartrell, Lucius J., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Atlanta, April 7, 1891. 

Gatlin, Eichard C North Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died in Mount Nebo, Ark., Sep- 
tember 9, 1896. 

Gholson, F. J., Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Aberdeen, Miss., October 16, 1863. 

Gibson, Eandall Lee, Louisiana, brigadier 
general, died at Hot Springs, Ark., December 
15, 1892. 

Gilmer, J. F., South Carolina, major general, 
died December 1, 1883. 

George, James Z., Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral (commanding State troops), died at Miss- 
issippi City, August 14, 1897. 

Gordon, John B., Georgia, major general, 
died at Miama, Fla., January 9, 1904. 

Gordon, B. Frank., Missouri, brigadier gen- 
eral, died . 

Gorgas, Josiah, Alabama, brigadier general, 
died at Tuskaloosa, Ala., May 15, 1883. 

Gray, Henry, Louisiana, brigadier general, 
died December 13, 1892. 

Gravon, John B., Louisiana, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Tallahassee, Fla., October 21. 1861. 

Green, C, Missouri, brigadier general, died 
at Memphis, September 30, 1900. 

Greer, Elkanah, Texas, brigadier general, 
died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark., March 25, 1877. 

Grimes, Bryan, North Carolina, major gener- 
al, died August M, 1880. 

Hagood, Johnson, South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died in South Carolina, January 4, 
1898. 



Hardeman, W. P., Texas, brigadier general, 
died at Austin, Texas, April 8, 1898. 

Hardee, William J., Georgia, lieutenant gen- 
eral, died at Wytheville, Va., November 6, 
1873. 

Hampton, Wade, South Carolina, lieutenant 
general, died at Columbia, April 11, 1902.. 

Harris, N. H., Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Malvern, Worcester, England, 
August 22, 1900. 

Harrison, Thomas, Texas, brigadier general, 
died at Waco, Texas, July 14, 1891. 

Harries, J. M., Kentucky, brigadier general, 
died November 2, 1889. 

Hawthorn, A. T., Arkansas, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Dallas, Texas, May 31, 1899. 

Hays, Harry T., Louisiana, major general-, 
died at New Orleans, August 21, 1876. 

Hebert, Louis, Louisiana, brigadier general, 
died in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, July 20, 
1901. 

Hebert, Paul 0., Louisiana, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at New Orleans, August 30, 1880^ 

Heth, Henry, Virginia, major general, died 
in Washington, D. C, September 26, 1899. 

Higgins, Edward, Louisiana, brigadier gen- 
eral, died . 

Hill, Daniel H., North Carolina, major gen- 
eral, died September 25, 1889. 

Hill, Benjamin J., Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, died August 5, 1880. 

Hindman, Thomas C, Arkansas, major gen- 
eral, died at Helena, Arlc., September 28, 1868. 
Hodge, George B., Kentucky, brigadier gen- 
eral, died . 

Hogg, Joseph L., Texas, brigadier general, 
died May 16, 1862. 

Holmes, T. H., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died June 20, 1880. 

Hood, John B., Texas, general with tempor- 
ary rank, died in New Orleans, August 30, 
1879. 

Holtzclaw, J. T., Alabama, brigadier general, 
died at Montgomery, July 19, 1893. 

Hugher, Benjamin, South Carolina, major 
general, died December 7, 1877. 

Humes, W. Y. C, Tennessee, major gen- 
eral, died at Huntsville, Ala., September 12, 
1883. 

Humphries, Benjamin G., Mississipi)i, brig- 
adier general, died in Leflore County, Mississ- 
ippi, December 22, 1882. 

Imboden, J. D., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died at Abingdon, Va., August 15, 1895. 

Iverson, Alfred, Georgia, brigadier general, 
died March 4, 1873. 

Jackson, Alfred X. E., Tennessee, briga- 
dier general, died at Jonesboro, Tenn., October 
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Jackson, Henry R., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Savannah, May 23, 1898. 

Jackson, John R., Georgia, brigadier general, 
■died at Milledgeville, Ga., February 27, 1866. 

Jackson, William H., Tennessee, brigadier 
general, died near Nashville, April 30, 1903. 

Jackson, Wm. L., Virginia, brigadier 
general, died . 

Jackman, Sidney D., Missouri, brigadier 
general, died . 

Johnson, Bushrod R., Tennessee, major gen- 
eral, died at Miles Station, 111., September 10 
1880. 

Johnson, Bradley T., Maryland, brigadier 
general, died at Rock Castle, Va., October 5, 
1903. 

Johnson, Edward, Virginia, major general, 
died February 22, 1873. 

Johnson, Adam R., Kentucky, brigadier 
general, lives at Bui'net, Texas. 

Johnston, Joseph E., Virginia, general, died 
in Washington, D. C, March 21, 1891. 

Jones, David R., Georgia, major general, 
died in Richmond, January 19, 1863. 

Jones, John R., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died at Harrisonburg, Va., April 1 1901. 

Jones, Samuel, Virginia, major general, died 
Washington, D. C, August 1, 1887. 

Jordan, Thomas, Virginia, brigadier general, 
died New York City, November 27, 1895. 

Kemper, James L., Virginia, major general, 
died Orange, Va., April 7, 1895. 

Kenndv, John D., South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died at Camden, S. C, April 14,"l896. 

Kershaw, J. B., South Carolina, major gen- 
eral, died Camden, S. C, April 13, 189-i. 

Lawton, A. R., Georgia, brigadier general, 
died Clifton Springs, N. Y., July 2, 1896. 

Leadbetter, Danville, Alabama, brigadier 
general, died . 

Lee, Robert E., Virginia, genei-al, died Lex- 
ington, Va., October 12, 1870. 

Lee, W. H. F., Virginia, major general, died 
Ravensworth, Va., October 15, 1891. 

Letters, William G., North Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died Goldsboro, N. C, January 
8, 1901. 

Lewis, Joseph H., Kentucky, brigadier gen- 
eral, died Frankfort, Ky., July 6, 1904. 

Liddell, St. John R., Louisiana, brigadier 
general, died in New Orleans, . 

Lenenthorpe, Collet, North Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died December 1, 1889. 

Lewis, S. M., Missouri, brigadier general, 
died . 

Lilv, R. D., Virginia, brigadier general, died 
at Staunton, Va., November 12, 1886. 

Long, A. S., Virginia, brigadier general, died 
at Charlottesville, April 29, 1891. 



Longstreet, James, Alabama, lieutenant gen- 
eral, died Gainesville, 1904. 

Loring, N. N., Florida, major general, died 
in New York City, December 31, 1886. 

Lovell, Mansfield, Maryland, major general, 
died in New York City, June 10, 1884. 

Lowrey, M. P., Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral, died Middleton, Tenn., February 27, 
1885. 

Mackall, W. W., Maryland, brigadier gener- 
al, died at Langley, Fairfax County, Va., Au- 
gust 19, 1891. 

McRea, William, North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died . 

Magruder, John Bankhead, Virginia, major 
general, died February 19, 1871. 

Mahone, William, Virginia, major general, 
died Washington, D. C, October 9, 1895. 

Major, J. P., Missouri, brigadier general, died 
May 8, 1877. 

Maney, George, Tennessee, brigadier general, 
died Washington, February 9, 1901. 

Manigault, A. M., South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died August 6, 1886. 

Marmaduke John S., Missouri, major gen- 
eral,, died at Jefferson City, Mo., December 
28, 1887. 

Marshall, Humphrey, Kentucky, brigadier 
general, died March 28, 1872. 

Martin, James G., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died at Asheville, N. C, October 4, 
1878. 

Maury, Dabney H., Virginia, major general, 
died at" Peoria, "ill., Januarj' 11, 1900. 

Maxey, Samuel Bell, Texas, major general, 
died at Eureka Springs, August 16, 1895. 

McCowan, John P., Tennessee, major gener- 
al, died January 22, 1879. 

McCulloch, Henry E., Texas, brrgadier gen- 
eral, died March 12, 1895. 

McGowan, Samuel, South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died at Asheville, N. C, August 9, 
1897. 

ilcLaws, Lafayette, Georgia, major general, 
died at Savannah, Ga., July 22, 1897. 

McNair, E., Arkansas, brigadier general 
died at Hattiesburg, Miss., November 13, 1902. 

Nelson, Allison, Texas, brigadier general, 
died . 

O'Neill, E. A., Alabama, brigadier general, 
died at Florence,' Ala., November 5, 1890. 

Palmer, Joseph B., Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Murfreesboro, Tenn., November 4, 
1896. 

Parsons, M. M., Missouri, brigadier general, 
died at Comargo, Mexico, August 17, 1865. 

Page, Richard L., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral (and commander in Confederate navy), 
died at Hagerstown, Md., August 9, 1901. 



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Payne, William H., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Washington, March 22, 1904. 

Pcmberton, John C, Virginia, lieutetnant 
general, died at Pennland, July 13, 1881. 

Pendleton, W. N., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Lexington, Va., January 15, 1883. 

Perry, E. A., Florida, brigadier general, died 
died at Washington, D. C, April 2, 1891. 

Perry, W. F., Alabama, brigadier general, 
died at Bowling Green, Ky., December 18, 
1901. 

Pickett, George E., Virginia, major general, 
died at Norfolk, Va., July 29, 1875. 

Pike, Albert, Arkansas, brigadier general, 
died at Washington, D. C, April 2, 1891. 

Pillow, Gideon J., Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Lee Coimty, Arkansas, October 
8, 1878. 

Polk, Lucius E., Arkansas, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Columbia, Tenn., December 5, 
1892. 

Preston, John S., South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died May 1, 1881. 

Preston, William, Kentucky, major general, 
died at Lexington, Ky., September 21, 1887. 

Price, Sterling, Missouri, major general, 
died September 29, 1867. 

Quarles, William A., Tennessee, brigadier 
general, died in Tennessee, January, 1894. 

Eains, Gabriel J., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died in Aiken, S. C, September 7, 
1887. 

Randolph, George W., Virginia, brigadier 
general, died . 

Reynolds, A. W., brigadier general, died May 
26, 1876. 

Ransom, Robert J., North Carolina, major 
general, died at New Orleans, January 14, 
1892. 

Reynolds, D. H., Arkansas, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Lake Village, Ark., March 14, 
1902. 

Ripley, Roswell S., South Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died in New York City, March 29, 
1887. 

Richardson, R. N., Tennessee, acting briga- 
dier general, died . 

Roane, John Seidell, Arkansas, brigadier 
general, died at Pine Bluff, Ark., April 7, 

Roddey, Philip D., Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Tjondon, England, August, 1897. 

Ross, L. S.. Texas, Ijrigadier general, died at 
College Station, Texas, January 3, 1888.' 

Ruggles, Daniel, Virginia, brigadier gener- 
al, died at Fredericksburg, Va., June 1, 1897. 

Rust, Albert, Arkansas, brigadier general, 
died . 



Scales, Alfred M., North Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died February 9, 1893. 

Scott, Thomas L., Louisiana, brigadier gen- 
eral, died . 

Sears, C. W., Mississippi, brigadier general, 
died at Oxford, Miss., February 15, 1891. 

Shelly, Joseph 0., Missouri, brigadier gen- 
eral, died near Kansas City, Mo., February 
13, 1897. 

Shoup, Francis A., Florida, brigadier gener- 
al, died at Columbia, Tenn., September 28, 
1896. 

Sibley, H. H., Louisiana, brigadier general, 
died at Frederick, Va., August 23, 1886. 

Slaughter, J. E., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died in the City of Mexico January 1, 1901. 

Smith, E. Kirbv, general (temporary rank), 
died at Suwanec, Fla., March 28, 1893. 

Smith, Gustavus W., Kentucky, major gener- 
al, died New York City June" 24, 1896. 

Smith, James Argyle, Mississippi, brigadier 
general, died at Jackson, Miss., December 6, 
1901. 

Smith, M. L., Florida, major general, died 
July 29, 1866. 

Smith, William, Virginia, major general, 
died at Warrenton, Va., May 18, 1887. 

Smith, William D., Georgia, brigadier gener- 
al, died at Charleston, S. C, October 4, 1862. 

Sorrell, G. Moxley, Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died near Roanoke, August 10, 1901. 

Steele, William, Texas, brigadier general, 
died at San Antonio, January 12, 1885. 

Steuart, George H., Maryland, brigadier 
general, died . 

Stevens, Walter H., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Vera Cruz, Mexico, November 12, 
1867. 

Stevenson, Carter L., Virginia, major gener- 
al, died August 15, 1888. 

St. John, Isaac M., Georgia, brigadier gener- 
al, died April 7, 1880. 

Stovall, ILirccllus A.. Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Augusta, Ga., August 7, 1865. 

Talliaferro, William B.. Virginia, major gen- 
eral, died in Gloucester Cnuntv, Virginia, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1898. 

Tavlor, Richard, Louisiana, lieutenant gen- 
eral, died in New York City, April 12, 1897. 

Taylor, Thomas H., Kentucky, brigadier 
general, died in Louisville April 12, 1901. 

Terry, William, Virginia, brigadier general, 
died near Wytheville, Va., September 12, 1888. 

Tcrrv, William R., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Richmond March 28, 1897. 

Thomas, Edward L., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died in Oklahoma Territory March 8, 
1898. 

Thompson, M. Jeff , Missouri, brigadier gen- 



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eral, commanding Misfouri State troops, died 
at St. Joseph, Mo., March 5, 1876. 

Toombs, Eobert, Georgia, brigadier general, 
died at Washington, Ga., December 15, 1885. 

Toom, Thomas F., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died at Raleigh, N. C, February 19, 
1903. 

Trapier, James H., South Carolina, briga- 
dier general, died January 2, 1866. 

Trimble, Isaac, Maryland, major general, 
died in Baltimore January 2, 1888. 

Tucker, N. F., Mississippi, brigadier general, 
died at Okolona, Miss., September 15, 1881. 

Twiggs, David R., Georgia, major general, 
died July 15, 1862. 

Vance, Robert B., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, died near Asheville, N. C, October 28, 
1899. 

Van Dorn, Earle, Mississippi, major gen- 
eral, died at Spring Hill, Tenn., March 8, 
1863. 

Vaughn, John C, Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Thomasville, Ga., September 10, 
1875. 

Vaughana, A. J., Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Indianapolis October 1, 1899. 

Walker, James A., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died . 

Walker, John G., Missouri, major general, 
died at Washington, D. C, July 20, 1903. 

Walker, L. M., Tennessee, brigadier general, 
died 1863. 

Walker, Leroy Pope, Alabama, brigadier 
general, died at Huntsville, Ala., August 22, 
1884. 

Walker, R. Lindsay, Virginia, brigadier 
general, died at Richmond, Va., June 7, 1890. 

Walker, W. S., Florida, brigadier general, 
died at Atlanta, Ga., June 7, 1899. 

Walthall, Edward C, Mississippi, major 
general, died at Washington, D. C, April 31, 
1898. 

Wallace, W. H. South Carolina, brigadier 
general, died at Union, S. C, March 31, 1901. 

Waite, Stand, Indian Territory, brigadier 
general, died August, 1876. 

Weisiger, D. A., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died at Richmond, Va., February 33, 1899. 

Wharton, John A., major general, died in 
Houston, Texas, April 6, 1865. 

Waul, T. N., Texas, brigadier general, died 
at Greenville. Texas, July, 1903. 

Wayine, Henry C, Georgia (declined ap- 
pointment of brigadier general in C. S. A. and 
was adjutant and inspector general of State of 
Georgia with rank of major general), died 
March 15, 1883. 

Whitfield, John W., Texas, brigadier gen- 
eral, died March 15, 1883. 



Wliiting, W. H. C, Mississippi, major gen- 
eral, died at Governor's Island, N. Y., March 
10, 1865. 

Wickham, W. C, Virginia, brigadier gener- 
al, died at Richmond, Va., July 23, 1888. 

Wilcox, Cadmus, Tennessee, major general, 
died at Washington, D. C, December 2, 1890. 

Wigfall, Louis T., Texas, brigadier general, 
died February 21, 1874. 

Williams, John S., Kentucky, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Mount Sterling, Ky., August 17, 
1898. 

Wilson, Claudius, Georgia, brigadier general, 
died November 24, 1863. 

Winder, John H., Maryland, brigadier gen- 
eral, died at Florence, S. C., February 6, 1865. 

Wise, Henry A., Virginia, brigadier general, 
died at Richmond, Va., September 10, 1876. 

Withers, Jones M., Alabama, major general, 
died March 13, 1890. 

Wofford, William T., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, died . 

Wood, S. A. M., Alabama, brigadier general, 
died . 

Wright, A. R., Georgia, major general, died 
December 31, 1872. 

Young, P. M. B., Georgia, major general, 
died in New York City July 6, 1896. 

York, Zebulon, Louisiana, brigadier general, 
died at Natchez, Miss., August 5, 1900. 

Young, W. H., Texas, brigadier general, died 
at San Antonio, Texas, November 28, 1901. 

GENERAL OFFICERS SUPPOSED TO BE LIVING WITH 
THEIR PLACE OF RESIDENCE WHERE KNOWN. 

Alexander, Edward P., Georgia, brigadier 
general, Ammondale, S. C. 

Armstrong, Frank C, Tennessee, brigadier 
general, Washington, D. C. 

Baker, Lawrence S., North Carolina, briga- 
dier general, Suffolk, Va. 

Bate, William B., Tennessee, major general, 
Nashville, Tenn., dead. 

Battle, Collen A., Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral, Troy, Ala. 

Bowles, Pinckney IB., Alabama, brigadier 
general. 

Brent. Joseph L., Maryland, brigadier gen- 
eral, Baltimore. 

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Kentucky, lieuten- 
ant general, Rio, Ky. 

Bullock, Eobert, Florida, brigadier general, 
Ocala, Fla. 

Butler, M. C, South Carolina, major general, 
Washington, D. C, dead. 

Cabell, W. L., Virginia, brigadier general, 
Dallas, Texas. 



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Capers, Ellison, South Carolina, brigadier 
general. 

Churchill, Thomas J., Arkansas, major gen- 
eral. Little Rock, Ark. 

Cockrell, Francis M., Missouri, brigadier 
general, Warrensburg, Mo. 

Cosby, George B., Kentucky, brigadier gen- 
eral, Sacramento, Cal. 

Cox, William R., North Carolina, brigadier 
general, Raleigh, N. C. 

Crews, C. C, Georgia, brigadier general. 

Gumming, Alfred, Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Daniel, Junius, North Carolina, brigadier 
general. 

Duke, Basil W., Kentucky, brigadier general, 
Louisville, Ky. 

Evans, Clement A., Georgia, brigadier gener- 
al, Atlanta, Ga. 

Ferguson, S. W., Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral, Greenville, Miss. 

I^inley, J. J., Florida, brigadier general, 
Quincy, Fla. 

Frazier, J. W., Mississippi, brigadier gener- 
al, Clifton Springs, N. Y. 

French, S. G., Mississippi, major general, 
Trenton, N. J., dead. 

Gano, Richard M., Texas, brigadier gen- 
eral, Dallas, Texas. 

Gordon, George W., Tennessee, brigadier 
general, Memphis, Tenn. 

Gordon, Frank B., ^lissouri, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Govan, D. C, Mississippi, brigadier general, 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Harrison, James E., Texas, brigadier gen- 
eral, dead. 

Hoke, Robert S., North Carolina, major 
general, Raleigh, N. C. 

Hunton, Eppa, Virginia, brigadier general, 
Richmond, Va. 

Johnston, Robert D., North Carolina, briga- 
dier general. 

Johnston, George D., Alabama, brigadier 
general, Tuscaloosa, Ala., dead. 

King, W. H., Texas, brigadier general, dead. 

Kirkland, W. W., North Carolina, brigadier 
general. 

Lagnee, Julius, Virginia, brigadier general, 
era], Alexandria, Va. 

Lane, James H., North Carolina, brigadier 
general. Auburn, Ala. 

Lane. Walter P., Texas, brigadier general, 
Marshall, Texas, dead. 

Lane, E. N., Alabama, brigadier general. 
Barton, Fla. 

Lee, Edward G., Virginia, brigadier general. 

Lee, Fitzhugh, Virginia, major general, 
Richmond, Va., dead. 



Lee, G. W. C, Virginia, major general, Re- 
vensworth, Va. 

Lee, Stephen D., South Carolina, lieutenant 
general, Columbus, Miss, dead. 

Lewis, L. M., Missouri, brigadier general. 

Lomax, L. S., Virgina, major general, 
Washington D. C. 

Logan, T. N., South Carolina, brigadier 
general, Richmond, Va. 

Lowry, Robert, Mississippi, brigadier gerer- 
al, Jackson, Miss. 

Lyon, H. B., Kentucky brigadier general. 

Mabry, H. P., Texas, brigadier general, 
dead. 

Martin, W. F., Mississippi, major general. 

McLay, R. P., Missouri, brigadier general 

McCausland, John V., Virginia, brigadiej 
general, Point Pleasant, W. Va., 

McComb, WilPiam, Tennessee, brigadier 
general, Gordonsville, Va. 

McRea, Dandrige, Arkansas, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Mercer, Hugh W., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Miller, William, Florida, brigadier general. 
Point Washington, Fla. 

Moore, J. C, Texas, brigadier general, dead. 

Moore, P. T., Virginia, brigadier general. 

Moodey, Young M., Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Morgan, John T., Alabama, brigadier gener- 
al, Selma, Ala., dead. 

Munford, Thomas T., acting brigadier gen- 
eral, Lynchburg, Va. 

Nichols, Francis T., Louisiana, brigadier 
general, Baton Rouge. La. 

Peck, U. R., Louisiana, brigadier general. 

Pearce, N. B., Arkansas, brigadier general. 

Pettus, E. W., Alabama, brigadier general, 
Selma, Ala., dead. 

Polignac, C. J., France, major general, Par- 
is, France. 

Pi'yor, Roger A., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral. New York City, dead. 

Ransom, Matt W., North Carolina, brigadier 
general. 

Robertson, Beverly H., Virginia, brigadier 
general, Washington, D. C. 

Robertson, Jerome B., Texas, brigadier gen- 
eral, dead. 

Robertson, Felix H., Texas, brigadier gen- 
eral, Waco, Texas. 

Roberts, N. P. Nortli Carolina, brigadier 
general. 

Rosser, Thomas S., Texas, mnjor general, 
Charlottesville, Va., dead. 

Sharp, Jacob H., Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral, Columbus, Miss. 



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363 



Shelley, Charles N., Alabama, brigadier gen- 
eral Birmingham, Ala., dead. 

Simms, James P., Georgia, brigadier general. 

Smith, Thomas B., Tennessee, brigadier 
general, Nashville, Tenn. 

Stark, Peter B., Mississippi, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Stewart, A. P., Tennessee, lieutenant gen- 
eral, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Tappan, James C, Arkansas, brigadier gen- 
eral, Helena, Ark. 

Thomas, Bryan M., Georgia, brigadier gen- 
eral, Eome, Ga. 

Thomas, Allen, Louisiana, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Walker, Henry H., Virginia, brigadier gen- 
eral. 

Wharton, G. C, Virginia, brigadier general. 

Wateirhouse, K., Texas, brigadier general, 
dead. 

Wheeler, Joseph, Georgia, major general, 
dead. 

Wright, Marcus J., Tennessee, brigadier gen- 
eral, Washington, D. C. 

Above list was prepared in 1904 by General 
Marcus J. Wright of Washington. It is pos-si- 
ble that of all the general officers of the Con- 
federacy not twenty are living at this date. 



THERE IS NO LOST CAUSE. 

(By Dr. Thomas Dunn English, New 
Jersey. ) 

Lost ! Wherefore lost ? That is not lost for- 
ever. 
Which yields to numbers on the field of blood; 
For truth has many fields for her endeavor — 
Seas in their ebb can wait the bur of flood. 

Worn out by contest with a myriad foemen, 
If champions grow exhausted and despair. 
What then — if on some cloudy day the gnomon 
Points not the hour — the dial still is there. 

The clouds will pass — the skies, not always 

shrouded, 
Will gleam with glorj', though today they 

lower, 
And then tlie dial, never more enshrouded, 
Will mark, and plainly mark, the triumph hour. 

Lost ! Wherefore lost ? 'Tis not because in 

battle 
Its friends were routed by o'er thronging foes. 
Not mid the cannon's roar and musket's rattle, 
Truth only deals its most effective blows. 



No caxise is lost, that, in itself has merit. 
Because its champions to brute-force succumb- — 
The sons, with pride, the father's wrongs in- 
herit. 
And they will speak — it's only brutes are dumb. 

The surest weapon is not gun or sabre, 
Cannon, nor rifle, when for truth we fight; 
A few fit words surpass the idiot's jabber. 
Tongue, pen and press are potent for the right. 

Lost! What is lost? The lives, the gold, the 

labor 
Of thousands, given for four long, weary years ! 
The story goes from neighbor unto neighbor, 
From sire to son, but is not told with tears. 

It is not told with shame, nor heard with terror. 
How, for a principle, a people fought; 
Not in the cause, there lay the evident error. 
But in the mode by which the end was sought. 

Ballots as weapons are than bullets surer. 
As will be proven ere the strife is done; 
Truth, by discussion, finds her throne se- 
curer — 
The council closes what the sword begun. 

Lost ! Never lost ! A cause when those who 

love it. 
Laugh at misfortune, an,l reverse defy, 
Loses no hope when falsehood sits above it. 
It may be wounded, but it can not die. 

But yesterday the Austrian ruled in Venice; 
Today, he sullen fires his parting gun. 
Appeal to reason, and abandon menace; 
Time, firmness, patience and the cause is won. 

CHARGE OF HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 
AT WILDERNESS. 

"lee to the rear." 
(By John R. Thompson.) 

Dawn of a pleasant morning in May, 
Broke through the wilderness cool and grey. 
While perched in the tallest tree-tops, the birds 
Were carolling Mendelssohn's "Songs without 
words." 

Far from the haunts of men remote, 
The brook brawled on with a liquid note, 
And Nature, all tranquil and lovely, wore 
The smile of the spring, as in Eden of yore. 

Little by little as daylight increased, 

And deepened the roseate flush in the East — 

Little by little did morning reveal 

Two long glittering lines of steel; 



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Where two hun.ire,! thousand bayonets gleam, 
Tipped with the light of the earliest beam, 
And the faces are sullen and grim to see. 
In the hostile armies of Grant and Lee. 

All of a sudden, ere rose the sun. 
Pealed on the silence the opening gua — 
A little white puff of smoke there came, 
And anon the valley was wreathed in flame. 

Down on the left of the rebel lines, 

Where a breastwork stands in a copse of pines. 

Before the rebels their ranks can form, 

The Yankees have carried the place by storm. 

Stars and Stripes on the salient wave 
'WTiere many a hero has found a grave, 
And the gallant Confederates strive in vain 
The ground they have drenched with their blood 
to regain ! 

Yet louder the thunder of battle roared — 
Yet a deadlier fire on the columns poured — 
Slaughter infernal rode with despair. 
Furies twain, through the murky air. 

Not far off in the saddle there sat, 
A grey-bearded man in a black slouched hat ; 
Not much moved by the fire was he, 
Calm and resolute Robert Lee. 

Quick and watchful he kept his eye 
On the bold rebel brigade close by — 
Reserves, that were standing (and dying) at 

ease, 
While the tempest of wrath toppled over the 

trees. 

For still with their loud, deep, bull-dog bay. 
The Yankee batteries blazed away. 
And with every murderous second that sped 
A dozen brave fellows, alas! fell dead! 

The grand old grey-beard rode to the space 
Where death and his victims stood face to face. 
And silently waved his old slouched hat — 
A world of meaning there was in that ! 

"Follow me ! Steady ! We'll save the day !" 
This, was what he seemed to say ; 
And to the light of his glorious eye 
The bold brigade thus made reply — 

"We'll go forward, but you must go back" — 
And they moved not an inch in the perilous 

track : 
"Go to the rear, and we'll send them to h — 1 !" 
And the sound of tlie battle was lost in their 

veil. 



Turning his bridle, Robert Lee 
Rode to the rear. Like the waves of the sea 
Bursting the dikes in their overflow. 
Madly his veterans dashed on the foe. 

And backward in terror that foe was driven, 
Their banners rent and their columns riven. 
Wherever the tide of battle rolled 
Over the Wilderness, wood and wold. 

Sunset out of a crimson sky. 
Streamed o'er a field of ruddier dye. 
And the brook ran on with a purple stain. 
From the blood of ten thousand foemen slain. 

Seasons have passed since that day and year — 
Again o'er its pebbles the brook runs clear, 
And the field in a richer green is drest 
Where the dead of a terrible conflict rest. 

Hushed is the roll of the rebel drum. 

The sabres are sheathed, and the cannon ar0 

dumb. 
And Fate, with his pitiless hand has furled 
The flag that once challenged the gaze of the 

world ; 

But the fame of the Wilderness fight abides; 
And down into history grandly rides. 
Calm and unmoved as in battle he sat. 
The grey-bearded man in the black slouched 
hat. 



SURRENDER OF ARMY OF NORTHERN 
VIRGINIA, APRIL 10, 1865. 

"Human virtue and human endurance ought 
to be equal to human calamity." — Words of 
Robert E. Lee in a letter to his wife advising 
her of his surrender. 

Have we wept till our eyes were dim with tears, 
Have we borne the sorrows of four long years. 

Only to meet this sight? 
merciful God, can it really be 
This downfall awaits our gallant Lee, 

And the cause we counted right? 

Have we known this bitter, bitter pain, 
Have all our dear ones died in vain? 

Has God forsaken quite? 
Is this the answer to every prayer. 
This anguish of deep, untold despair. 

This spirit-scathing blight? 

Heart-broken we kneel on the bloody sod, 
We hide from the wrath of our angry God, 

Who bows us in the dust. 
We heed not the sneer of the insolent foe. 
But that Thou, God ! should forsake us so — 

In whom was our onlv trust! 



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365 



Even strong men weep! the men who stand 
Fast in defense of our native land, 

Those gallant hearts and brave ; 
They wept not the souls who, fighting, fell — 
For the hero's death became them well — 

And they feared not the hero's grave. 

They have marched through long and stormy 

nights. 
They have borne the brunt of a jiundred fights, 

And their courage never failed ; 
Hunger, and cold, and summer heat, 
They have felt on the march and the long re- 
treat. 
Yet their brave hearts never quailed. 

Now, all these hardships seem real bliss 
Compared with the grief of a scene like this, 

This speechless, wordless woe; 
That Lee, at the head of his faithful band. 
The flower and pride of our Southern Land, 

Must yield to the hated foe! 

The conquered foe of a hundred fields. 
The foe that conquering, the laurel yields, 

Lee's sad, stern brow to grace ; 
For he, with the pain of defeat in his heart, 
Will bear in history the nobler part. 

And fill the loftier place! 

Scatter the dust on each bowed head — 
Happy, thrice happy, the honored dead, 

Who sleep their last, long sleep; 
For we who live in the coming years 
Beholding days with phantom fears — 

What can we do but weep? 



CHARGE OF HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 
AT THE WILDERNESS. 

(To the dead and the living of Hood's Texas 
Brigade the following poem descriptive of the 
Battle of the Wilderness, on May 6, 1864, is 
dedicated by W. M. Coldwell, attorney-at-law. 
El Paso, Texas.) 

Though past them float the wrecks of war. 

As Hill's proud line gives way. 
And famed battalions, ground to dust, 

Drift by their set array; 
Though o'er them burst the hungry shell 

And gap the steadfast line, 
And hissings of the bullets drown 

The sighings of the pine; 
The majesty of mighty deeds 

Crowns every warrior's brow — 
Transfigured by the dauntless years 

A halo folds them now. 



And Lee, against the stream of Eout, 

Intense though tranquil comes; 
His simplest word can kindle hearts 

More than appealing drums. 
For his the eye that stays Defeat 

And awes impatient Fate — 
The simplest, grandest gentleman 

That ever propped a state. 
When Hope deserts and Duty stays 

In Ruin's crushing hour. 
The champion reeling in tlie lists. 

Draws from his wounds new power. 

The wave of his compelling arm 

More than his word reveals. 
For words are feeble messengers 

For thoughts a hero feels. 
"You never failed your country yet, 

Beat back the foe's advance." 
He arms for battle every heart, 

As steel point arms the lance. 
And one stern cheer, a herald, speeds 

The sound-stunne^I forest through, 
And stays the broken bands in gray 

The shouting hordes in blue. 

For Gregg has turned to challenge War, 

The eager, flashing face. 
Where valor's deep and serried lines 

Leave doubt no lurking place. 
Though bough and bush and tufted grass. 

Reach hungry hands to claim 
The unrecked toll that warriors pay 

Who tread the paths of Fame, 
Swift as the Falcon's downward swoop, 

Sure as the Glacier's flow, 
They break from Death's opposing grasp 

To greet that shaken foe. 

Behind them faints a stricken South 

And waves a proud appeal 
As from the rim of every sky 

Expectant vultures wheel ; 
Beside them march the mighty shades 

Of comrades long since slain, 
Wlio leave Valhalla's bending lords 

To charge with them again. 
Before them flies in new dismay 

A pale and shrieking host 
Of foemen dead when former fields 

Struck dumb the Northern boast. 

The North gives way before tlieir charge. 

As in the Seas of Snow, 
Before the iceberg's sure advance 

Gives way the rended floe. 
And once again that conquering cheer 

Dumbs battle's thunder tone. 
And Southern banners wave at Eve 

Where Morning saw them shown. 



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GENERAL ORDER NO. 9. 

General Lee's Farewell Address to His Army. 

Headquarters Army Northern Virginia, 
April 10, 18G5. 

"After four years of ardous service, marked 
by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the 
Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled 
to yield to overwhelming numbers and re- 
sources. 

"I need not tell the survivors of so many 
hard-fought battles who have remained stead- 
fast to the last, that I have consented to this 
result from no distrust of them; but feeling 
that valor and devotion could accomplish noth- 
ing that could compensate for the loss that 
would have attended the continuation of the 
contest, I have determined to avoid the useless 
sacrifice of those whose past services have en- 
deared them to their countrymen. 

"By the terms of the agreement, officers and 
men can return to their homes and remain 
there until exchanged. You will take with you 
the satisfaction that proceeds the consciousness 
of duty faithfully performed; and I earnestly 
pray that a merciful God will extend to you 
His blessings and protection. With an increas- 
ing admiration of your constancy and devotion 
to^your country, and a grateful remembrance 
of your kind and generous consideration of my- 
self, I bid you an affectionate farewell. 

"R. E. LEE." 



GEN. JOHN B. GORDON'S TRIBUTE. 

"Whether the Southern people, under their 
changed conditions, may ever hope to witness 
another civilization which shall equal that 
which began with their Washington and ended 
with their Lee, it is certainly true that devo- 
tion to their glorious past is not only the surest 
guarantee of future progress and the holiest 
bond of unity, but is also the strongest claim 
that they can" present to the confidence and re- 
spect of all sections of the Union. 

"General John B. Gordon." 



THE LAND OF MEMORIES. 

BY MOINA. 

(Eev. A. J. Ryan.) 

A land without ruins is a land without mem- 
ories — a land without memories is a land with- 



out liberty. A land that wears a laurel crown 
may be fair to see, but twine a few sad cypress 
leaves around the brow of any land, and be that 
land beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in 
its consecrated coronet of sorrow and it wins 
the sympathy of the heart and history. Crowns 
of roses fade — crowns of thorns endure. Cal- 
varies and crucifixes take deepest hold of hu- 
manity — the triumphs of might are transient, 
they pass away and are forgotten — the suffer- 
ings of right are graven deepest on the chroni- 
cles of nations. 

Yes ! give me a land where the ruins are spread, 
And the living tread light on the hearts of the 

dead ; 
Yes ! give me a land that is blest by the dust, 
And bright with the deeds of the down-trodden 

just ; 
Yes! give me the land where the battle's red 

blast 
Has flashed on the future the form of the past ; 
Yes ! give me the land that hath legend and lays 
That tell of the memories of long vanished 

days; 
Yes ! give me a land that hath story and song, 
To tell of the strife of the right with the 

wrong ; 
Yes! give me the land with a grave in each 

spot. 
And names in the graves that shall not be 

forgot ; 
Yes! give me the land of the wreck and the 

tomb, 
There's a grandeur in graves — there's glory in 

gloom — 
For out of the gloom future brightness is born. 
As after the night looms the sunrise of morn; 
And the graves of the dead, with the grass over- 
grown, 
May yet form the footstool of Liberty's throne. 
And each single wreck in the war-path of might. 
Shall yet be a rock in the temple of Eight ! 



THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. 

BY "LATIENNE." 

From the broad and calm Potomac, 

To the Eio Grande's waves. 
Have the brave and noble fallen — 

And the earth is strewn with graves; 
In the vale and on the hillside, 

Through the woods and by the stream, 
Has the martial pageant faded, 

Like the vision of a dream. 




Confederal 

Soldiers 

Bidding 

Each Othe 

Farewell 

After 

Surrender 



IN AIEAIORIAAI 

The Warrior's Banner Ascends in Flight, 

To Greet the Warrior's Soul; 
Though Dark the Xight, the Stars are Bright 

And Heaven is its Goal. 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



367 



Where the reveille resounded 

And the stirring call "to arms!" 
Nod the downy heads of clover 

To the wind's mesmeric charms; 
Where the heels of trampling squadrons 

Beat to dust the mountain pass, 
Hang the dew-drops' fragile crystal, 

From the slender stems of grass. 

Where the shock of meeting armies 

Roused the air in raging waves, 
And with sad and hollow groanings, 

Echoed earth's deep, hidden caves ; 
Where the cries of crushed and dying 

Pierced the elemental strife. 
Where lay death in sickening horror 

'Neath the maddened rush of life. 

Quiet reigns now sweet and pensive, 

All is hushed in dreamless rest. 
And the pitying arms of Nature 

Hold our heroes on her breast; 
Shield them well, oh tender mother. 

While the morn and evening breath 
Wliispers us, the sad survivors 

Of their victory in death. 

What though no stately column. 

Their cherished names may raise, 
To dim the eyes, and move the lips 

With gratitude and praise — 
The blue sky — hung with bannered clouds, 

Their solemn dome shall be. 
All heaven's choiring winds shall chant 

The anthem of the free. 

The spring with vine-leafed arms shall clasp. 

Their hillocked resting places; 
And summer roses droop above, 

With flushed and dewy faces; 
Fair daisies rayed, and crowned, shall spring 

Like stars from out their dust, 
And look to kindred stars on high. 

With eyes of patient trust. 

And vainly shall the witlings' lips 

Assail with envious dart, 
The fame of our heroic dead 

Whose strongholds is the heart — 
The Nation's heart not wholly crushed. 

Though each throb be in pain, 
For life and hope will still survive 

.Where love and faith remain. 



Houston, Texas, Feb. 1, 1911. 
My Dear Comrades: — 

Our reunion at Austin, Oct. 26th and 27th, 
1910, ordered minutes of reunion and monu- 
ment dedication printed. Your President had 
long ago decided that there was much ought to 
be in print about Hood's Texas Brigade, and at 
this juncture he determined that such an event 
as dedication of our magnificent monument, 
and the glorious reunion we held at Austin 
ought to be commemorated by such a souvenir 
edition, of all details, as would make it a his- 
torical epoch never to be forgotten. This book 
is the outcome of his determination. Much 
care has been taken to follow monument, rolls 
and history from inception to completion. Or- 
ganization of Hood's Texas Brigade has been 
made an instructive feature, and the constancy 
with which reunions have been kept up for 
forty years an evidence of the fidelity of sur- 
viving comrades. Enough State and Confeder- 
ate history has been added to bring us to where 
the war began, and to where battles and reports 
of battles can be found in many histories as 
well as in publications and records from the 
War Department at Washington. A grand and 
sacred feature is the publication of our partial 
casualty list, which on account of attention 
given it and the further opportunity given all 
comrades to correct it, will save the names of 
many of our dear comrades from obscurity and 
more correctly establish list of our killed and 
wounded. 

Owing to small number of this edition, book 
will cost fully $5 per copy to produce it, and 
it is very necessary to guard against loss in 
delivery to comrades. Each established address 
of every known living comrade of Hood's Texas 
Brigade will be sent a copy FREE. Secretary 
Goree has been instructed to send a postal card 
to every address he has on file and a copy of 
this book will be sent to every member wbo re- 
plies. Also it is earnestly requested that every 
one acknowledge receipt of book without delay 
— in order that I may know who received his 
book. 

Great effort has been taken to avoid any kind 
of method in arrangement of this volume. It is 
intended that reader be not wearied with same- 
ness, but be permitted to stumble on the un- 
expected at every step. The collection for 
scrap-book features makes book wonderfully 
valuable as a Hood's Texas Brigade text-book, 
and while so many speeches as have been in- 
cluded could not possibly avoid a degree of 
sameness and repetition, still it is matter that 
would not be stale were it written on everv 



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page. All in ail, 1 have eased my conscience 
as to a duty owed my dead and living comrades 
and feel sure this hook will not only fill a long- 
felt want, but that as time rolls on it will be- 
come a treasure to all seeking for information 
as to one of the best fighting brigades in 
either army. 

Comrades, nearly half a century has passed 
since the first shot was fired at Sumpter. The 
report of that shot echoed and re-echoed 
throughout every confine of the United States 
and caused the whole civilized world to take 
notice. Millions of people were startled as 
never before. It was not necessary to call for 
volunteers to defend the principles of the South. 
You left farm and workshop, office and store, 
home and loved ones, to go to the front and 
defend your beloved Dixie Land. Countless bat- 
tles were lost and won. Beloved comrades who 
at morn answered "here," at eventide had re- 
sponded to roll call elsewhere. Long and weary 
marches, battles fierce and bloody marked the 
years from 1861 to 1865. After the most gal- 
lant fight the world ever beheld, with the 
grandest record ever made by soldiers on this 
earth, few of you were left to return to your 
homes. Your wonderful valor and noble cour- 
age, your unselfish common sacrifice for coun- 
try, home and God, cemented you as comrades 
in the indissoluble bonds of life and death 
communion, and an abiding faith in the Justice 
of the cause you had on so many battlefields 
shown your willingness to die to win. Hood's 
Texas Brigade Association was instituted to 
perpetuate the remembrance of that cause for 
which you sacrificed so much and tc preserve 
untarnished the honor you maintained through- 
out the whole great struggle for a principle 
that will never die. 

We have gathered at our annual reunion for 
nearly forty years and recounted the anecdotes, 
incidents and events of the war. The fortieth 
annual reunion is close at hand — more so be- 
cause we have so much to accomplish before 
that date. June 28th and 29th, 1911, we meet 
at Cameron, Texas, where you may be able to 
grasp the hand of a comrade whom you have 
not seen since perchance on picket duty long 
years ago. Cameron is especially accessible to 
all Texas, its well known hospitality will be 
doubly extended to the survivors of Hood's 
Texas Brigade, and we earnestly hope our for- 
tieth reunion will be one of the largest and 
best we have ever had. 

Faithfully your comrade, 

F. B. CniLTON, 
President Hood's Texas Brigade Association. 



THE PASSING OF FIFTY YEARS 

Has Wrought Wonderful Changes. The 
South's Power and Influence. 



The mission of this book has been accom- 
plished — it was three-fold : First, to show that 
the South was right all the way through; sec- 
ond, to prove by every act, voice and pen that 
Hood's Texas Brigade did their duty to the bit- 
ter end; third, that first principles w^ere main- 
tained from beginning to end — and the cause 
for which the Confederacy struggled was never 
lost. Discordant and fiendish elements were 
striving to dismember the Union and it would 
have destroyed itself in a few years had the un- 
civil war never began. Kansas and its John 
Brown committed the overt act when the Unit- 
ed States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry was at- 
tacked — and the "first gun at Sumpter" was 
only a natural consequence to their hellish in- 
tentions. The Abolition party had no better 
side or saving clause. It was all as bad as bad 
could be and there was no hope, ever, for a 
stable Federal government. The "Great War" 
has proved a saviour to the Union. Today it 
stands impregnable and irresistible in the eyes 
of the whole world. The living heroes of the 
South of fifty years ago have become the mas- 
ters of the situation fifty years later. The puri- 
ty of the principles that then actuated the 
Southern soldier have become recognized and 
the Justice of his contention has been upheld by 
the highest tribunals in the land, and the events 
of today clearly show what great changes can 
be effected by time. Our own loved chieftain 
stands erect, in full Confederate uniform, in 
the capitol of the Union at Washington, and 
a Confederate soldier presides over the Supreme 
Court of the United States of America, while 
one flag floats over one country, and one, hap- 
py, prosperous, contented people. 

As the last lines of this book are penned, it 
is with pride and pleasure the following edi- 
torial from The Houston Post is made its clos- 
ing utterance. The author 1)egan its historical 
feature with Lincoln's election fifty years ago, 
and through its leaves many speakers have told 
much of what the South had done to build up 
and make glorious the whole of the Union. Ex- 
cerpt from New Yorl- lVoW(7 and editorial 
thereon by Houston Post, as follows below, tells 
in glowing words how mighty the South and 
its defenders in time of war have become in 
days of peace. God grant that the good work 
may go on until as one people, one flag and 
one country, we become the cynosure of all 
eyes — both Heavenly and Earthly. 



ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 



369 



THE SOUTH AND THE REPUBLIC. 

(Houston, Texas, Saturday, Dee. 24, 1910.) 

On Tuesday last, noting the fiftieth anni- 
versary of the adoption of the ordinance of se- 
cession by the South Carolina convention, The 
New York World said : 

"Such a war might be supposed to leave be- 
hind wounds that even time could not heal, but 
time has wonderful curative qualities. All the 
war disabilities have been removed. Today a 
Confederate soldier is the Chief Justice of the 
United States. The statue of the great chief- 
tain. General Eobert E. Lee, of the Southern 
armies, wearing the uniform of the Confeder- 
acy, stands in the capitol of the United States. 
It may be that the next president of the United 
States will be a man born south of Mason and 
Dixon's line. The house that was divided 
against itself is no longer divided. 

"This day marks the beginning of a long 
series of semi-centennials. They w'ill revive no 
animosities, create no ill-feeling. The Republic 
is 'one and inseparable.' " 

The Post applauds the sentiment. The South 
went into the war in good faith ; it accepted its 
results in like spirit. The almost forty-six years 
which have elapsed since the capitulation of 
Appomattox have been crowded with great 
events which testify richly of Southern devo- 
tion to the Eepublic. A vast work of restora- 
tion and rehabilitation has been achieved in pa- 
tience and self-reliance; great problems have 
been undertaken in good faith and in God"s own 
time will be solved in the spirit of justice and 
righteousness. Our statesmen, from the time 
they re-entered the historic bodies from which 
they withdrew, have exemplified the best ideals 
and virtues of our civilization, and in all tliat 
has tended to strengthen the Eepublic at the 
foundations, as well as perfect the fabric erect- 



ed upon them, they have left no room for doubt 
of their patriotism. 

The presence of Southern men at the head 
of great industries in the North, at the head of 
vast financial institutions, at the head of great 
railroad systems, all prove to unprejudiced 
minds the sterling character of Southern man- 
hood. The simplicity of the Southern govern- 
ment record Southern devotion to the ideals 
which led to the foundation of the Eepublic. 
The creation of vast material wealth in the 
South which has been achieved through the pa- 
tient toil and mutual friendliness and co-oper- 
ation of two races, participated in by thousands 
of people of Northern birth and aided extensive- 
ly by Northern capital, reveal a singleness of 
aim and purpose that has done much to obliter- 
ate the prejudices and passions which led to the 
great conflict. 

We feel that we can say to all the world with- 
out boasting that in all the activities of civiliza- 
tion—social, political, industrial, educational — 
the South has made good, and her people are 
looking hopefully toward a future of richer 
achievements. 

We look with pride upon our distinguished 
son — once a boy in gray — presiding over the 
highest court in the land; we contemplate with 
pride the silent figure of our great chieftan. 
Gen. Robert Edward Lee, Confederate uniform 
and all, in the capitol; we rejoice that a spirit 
of fraternity spreads to every boundary of the 
Republic and that ive exact in rick profusion 
the good wishes, the confidence and respect of 
all otir fellow citizens of the North. 

All these we accept as an augury of the still 
better times to be, when other generations con- 
templating the majesty of the Eepublic will pay 
a tribute to the States of tlie Confederacy for 
their splendid part in the work of achievement. 

— Houston Post. 



When marble wears away, and monuments are dust, 

The deeds that guard our soldiers' clay will still fulfill their trust. 



BRAVE DEEDS—BRAVE FRUITS. 



By W. Gilmore Simms, of South Carolix.\. 

The record should be made of each brave deed 

That brings us Pride and Freedom as its 
fruits. 

So that while tending on the vigorous shoots. 



Our children may perpetuate the seed ; 
i^nd, naught forgetting of the glorious Past, 

Lay good foundations in the Future's womb. 
So when the hardy sire succumbs at last, 

The emulous son may still defend his tomb. 



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HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE 



Thus chronicled, the mighty deed begets 

Still mightier; and the column, soaring high, 
Speaks his tones that the brave son ne'er for- 
gets! 
He, too, will conquer — will not fear to die! 
Heading the fight, will maa the breach and 
prove 
His valor not unworthy of his love. 



The storm has drifted far the wreck, 
The main-sails shattered, sweep the deck, 

Our flag is furled in glory — 

Aye, comrades, lift the fallen yards. 

Stand firm — the helm holds yet rewards — 
Your faith shall icrite its story. 

THE END. 



PUBLISHER'S NOTE:— The compiler of 
this volume desires to express his thanks to the 
many sources from which he has obtained much 
valuable matter. 

The following of battles in regular sequence, 
reports of engagements by commanding offi- 
cers, all War Department record matter — ^and 
much historical data — has been omitted be- 
cause all can be found in "History of Hood's 
Texas Brigade," by J. B. Polley (Official 
Historian), Floresville. Texas. And all com- 



rades and others are advised to procure a copy 
of said history. 

The author is greatly indebted to the splen- 
did printing and publishing house of Rein & 
Sons Co., of Houston, for every possible effort 
to expedite the speedy publication of this book, 
in order to please himself and his aged com- 
rades — none of whom could wait long to re- 
ceive it. He also owes said publisliers many 
thanks for the able manner in which every 
feature of the book has been displayed and 
executed. F. B. Chilton. 




ainnouncement 



THE FORTIETH ANNUAL REUNION OF 

Assnriatinn 



WILL BE HELD AT CAMERON, TEXAS, JUNE 

TWENTY-EIGHTH AND TWENTY-NINTH 

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN 



LET EVERY COMRADE 
ATTEND 



.^s>"^ 



SDtticeta ^ooli'& ^tia& 3tisaie aogfocfation 

CAPT. F. B. CHILTON, President, Houston, Texas 

GEN. W. R. HAMBY, Vice-President, Austin, Texas 

CAPT. \V. T. HILL, Vice-President, Maynard, Texas 

CAPT. W. H. GASTON, Vice-President, Dallas, Texas 

REV. J. W. STEVENS, Chaplain, Houston Heights, Texas 
DR. L. D. HILL, Surgeon, Austin, Texas 

E. K. GOREE, Secretary. Huntsville, Texas 



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NOTICE OF SECOND VOLUME TO BE ISSUED AT ONCE 



When this volume was ready for press it was 
found necessary to withdraw nearly 200 pages 
of matter that would have swelled the book 
beyond a convenient size, and same will be used 
in second volume, to be issued immediately after 
Fortieth Eeunion at Cameron, Texas, June 28 
and 29, 1911. The entire minutes and proceed- 
ings of that reunion, together with all speeches 
and reunion incidents, as well as all editorials 
from State press on this book, the Cameron re- 
union, Hood's Texas Brigade and the glorious 
cause we once represented will appear in full in 
second volume. The author has been ju'oud to 
make mention of many comrades in this first 
book and his regi-ets have been many that every 
survivor was not represented. 

He pleads with every comrade to write his 
own recollections as to every incident connected 
with himself, his comrades and the brigade, and 
send a good portrait of himself for closing 
book. All you will have to do is to provide 
plate for portrait; any good engraver gives 
first-class plate for $4. Or if you send a good 
photograph, the writer will attend to the ])]ate 
for you. The using of plate and such matter 
as you send will cost you nothing, and you will 
receive a copy of book free of charge, postage 
paid. This will give you both volumes free, 
and together we will have done all we can do 
in leaving behind us a most perfect history of 
Hood's Texas Brigade. 

It is earnestly hoped that each and every sur- 
vivor will feel it his duty to not only write nil 



he knows, l)ut to have his portrait in book as 
well. There is not an honest and true comrade 
but is worthy to have not only his life, but his 
face as well, handed down through history, and 
in these last days of Confederate soldiers, 
it is meet that the present may see and 
read and the future may know of your glorious 
deeds. When you read this book your mind will 
be refreshed and I trust your patriotism rekin- 
dled to the extent that many articles on battles, 
incidents and personal history will be sent me. 
I want something from or about every member 
living or dead, and a portrait in book of every 
comrade. 

Particularly is it regretted that the list of 
survivors, fiimished by Secretary for publica- 
tion, has been found (after going to press) to 
be so imperfect. Many names of our most 
prominent comrades have been omitted. Be 
glad you are living to be able to correct all 
errors for following edition, or second volume. 
Let all determine to make the next book a per- 
fect finish as to full history of our noble com- 
mand. Some of the illustrations in present 
book are fine and valuable. They were made 
from rare paintings by the Star Engraving 
Company, of Houston, and are works of art. 
In the next book there will be several illustra- 
tions, that are now being prepared, that will 
])lease much. 

Let every comrade of Hood's Brigade feel 
individually responsible to do his utmost to 
help the next volume through his own efforts. 

F. B. Chilton-. 




INSERT 



Our worthy Secretary, during his short administration, has done his best to perfect a com- 
plete roll of survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade. On pages 132, 133, 134 and 135 of this book 
there is a list, and by adding the following names it is believed list is as near perfect and 
accurate as we will ever be able to obtain. It is an object and purpose that has baffled every 
Secretary for forty years. 



FIEST TEXAS EEGIMENT. 



FelLx W. Bryan Company A 

A. D. Olliphant Company E 

D. B. Grigsby Company G 

J. B. Bolton Company H 

J. W. Xorford Company I 

J. J. Hall Company K 

0. F. Hail Company K 

W. L. Derden Company K 

George B. Lundy Company M 



First Texas Dallas, Texas 

First Texas Andersonville, S. C. 

First Texas Elkhart, Texas 

First Texas Jacksonville, Texas 

First Texas Osceola, Texas 

First Texas Streetman, Te>;qs 

First Texas San Angelo, Texas 

First Texas Corsicana, Texas 

First Texas Crockett, Texas 



FOURTH TEXAS REGIMEXT. 



W. S. Johnson Company A 

Capt. W. C. Walsh Company B 

S. F. Stone Company B 

John C. Bonner Company B 



J. F. McGehee Company 

W. L. Bailey Company 

J. W. Baker Company 

Ed R. Crockett Company 

J. C. Quick Company 

J. B. Corwin Company 



J. L. 

R. S. 
John 



B 

C 
D 
F 
F 
F 

Nix Company G 

Miller Company I 

Pickett Company I 



T. J. McNeily Company K 



Fourth Texas Austin, Texas 

Fourth Texas Austin, Texas 

Fourth Texas Austin, Texas 

Fourth Texas Austin, Texas 

Fourth Texas San Marcos, Texas 

Fourth Texas Houston, Texas 

Fourth Texas Red Rock, Texas 

Fourth Texas Austin, Texas 

Fourth Texas Henly, Texas 

Fourth Texas Paint Rock, Texas 

Fourth Texas Barksdale, Texas 

Fourth Texas Lufkin, Texas 

Fourth Texas Corsicana, Texas 

Fourth Texas Ennis, Texas 



FIFTH TEXAS REGIMEXT. 

J. T. Delaney Company E Fifth Texas Temple, Texas 

J. A. Huffman Company G Fifth Texas Cameron, Texas 

H. C. Jackson Company G Fifth Texas Com Hill, Texas 

Willis G. Blue Company I Fifth Texas.. Confederate Home, Austin, Tex. 

G. W. Clampitt Company I Fifth Texas El Campo, Texas 

0. P. Barton Company I Fifth Texas Somerville, Texas 

R. A. Ashley Companv K Fifth Texas Rockdale, Texas 

Sam C. Hiram Company K Fifth Texas Creek, Texas 

Above completes a list of 335 names, some of whom may be dead, though all are vouched 
for either by letter or by comrades who profess to be posted. It is also believed that some post- 
offices may be wrong, but all in all, it is the best that can be done. It is again urged that at 
the Cameron reunion all mistakes be corrected, that next edition of this book may be free of 
errors. 

It is also regretted that names of Miss Sarah Maude Cox, of Tyler, and David Bron- 
augh, of Whitewright, Texas, were omitted in monument list of paid subscribers, and their 
names are hereby added. A wonderful feature of said list is that not a single subscription re- 
mains unpaid. 

F. B. C. 

Houston, Texas, February 8th, 1911. 



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